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📖 Kindergarten · ELAL.K.2aUnit 9: Informative writing: All About books

Capitals and periods

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🎯 Objective: Students start sentences with a capital and end with a period.

Lesson outline

  1. Fix the teacher’s sentence.
  2. Sentence check song.
  3. Edit own pages.
  4. Exit: write a sentence correctly.

Lesson 3 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.K.2a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Kindergarten — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Name a topic and tell some facts about it
  • Write words and simple sentences with capital letters and periods

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All Kindergarten skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informative writing: All About books”

  1. Choosing a topic I know
  2. Writing facts
  3. Capitals and periods
  4. Labels and diagrams
  5. Publishing celebration

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