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Capitalization and Punctuation Quiz

The document provides a capitalization and punctuation practice worksheet for students, with multiple choice sentences that need corrections to capitalization or punctuation. It then assigns a short story writing task for students to demonstrate their mastery of capitalization and punctuation rules by including various punctuation marks, clauses, dialogue, and other requirements in an original story. Students can choose to write about prompts involving schools with role reversals, being a new student on Mars, having an alien steal homework, or being unable to speak.

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Capitalization and Punctuation Quiz

The document provides a capitalization and punctuation practice worksheet for students, with multiple choice sentences that need corrections to capitalization or punctuation. It then assigns a short story writing task for students to demonstrate their mastery of capitalization and punctuation rules by including various punctuation marks, clauses, dialogue, and other requirements in an original story. Students can choose to write about prompts involving schools with role reversals, being a new student on Mars, having an alien steal homework, or being unable to speak.

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Name:_____________________

Capitalization and Punctuation Practice

Capitalization: Edit these sentences using the capitalization rules we discussed. There are
several mistakes in capitalization; some letters are capitalized that shouldn’t be, and some
should be capitalized but aren’t.

1. Is lake ontario connected to lake michigan?

2. is mrs. turnbull going to dance in esl class Today?

3. My Sister really likes Basketball.

4. martin luther king, jr. was an inspirational man, and i enjoyed learning about him.

5. I think you all are so lucky to speak several different Languages; i only speak English and

a little spanish.

6. Lansing is the Capital of Michigan.

7. To get to the meridian mall, head East on grand river avenue for about three miles.

8. my favorite ice cream flavor is Chocolate, but adam prefers Vanilla.

9. Her Brother, Eric, lives in Chicago.

10. I would love to travel all over the World and see many Countries, such as spain,

egypt and india.

Punctuation: Edit these sentences for all the types of punctuation we learned. You may
need to add or delete commas, semicolons, colons, apostrophes, quotation marks, periods,
question marks, or exclamation points.

1. No Dont touch that hot stove

2. Arent you going to Saras birthday party

3. I asked my friend Ben if I could borrow his bike

4. Using correct punctuation can be difficult Im so glad to learn it in ESL class

5. Dr Browns’ office smells really clean

6. When I get home from school I do the following chores take out the trash walk the dog

and clean my room

7. The lunch lady told me not to throw food I didnt listen


Name:_____________________
8. Wow You are so good at using punctuation said Mrs Turnbull?

9. Because the students paintings are so beautiful the art teacher gave them all As

10. On a cold, winter day I saw big fluffy white dog wagging it’s tail

Masters of Punctuation and Capitalization


Short Story Writing Assignment
Due:______________
Now that you are masters of capitalization and
punctuation, write a short story. You may write about
anything you want, or for some inspiration, you may
choose one of the prompts:
 Imagine a school where the adults are the students and
kids are the teachers…
 Imagine you are a new student…on Mars!
 Imagine an alien stole your homework…
 Imagine that you couldn’t speak at all…
Page length, you ask? Make it as long as it needs to be to
include all of the following in your story:

o At least 1 of each phrase and clause (There are 6


different types on your laminated sheet, which you
may use for help.)
o Use at least 1 question mark (?)
o Use at least 1 exclamation point (!)
o Use at least 4 lines of dialogue (“ ”)
o 1 ellipsis (…)
o 2 semicolons (;)
o 1 colon (:)
o At least 3 apostrophes (‘)
 1 to show a contraction
 1 to show singular possession
 1 to show plural possession
o All sentences begin with a capital letter.
Name:_____________________
o All sentences end with a period, or appropriate
punctuation.

Of course you may use more than what is outlined above!


Have fun and be creative as you show off your writing
skills!

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