Students are asked to write character names (Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura) and names of their own family members on charts, which requires using capital letters for proper nouns. Students are asked to write journal answers to questions and to record similarities and differences in complete sentences, which involves beginning sentences with capital letters.

Students are given explicit rules to review that list capitalization of people's names, the first letter of a sentence, geographical place names, days, months, holidays, and titles. Students practice applying those rules by rewriting sentences in Option 1 and by composing sentences that require selecting correctly capitalized words in Option 2. The Skills and Activity 3 sections state that students will "Use correct capitalization in writing" and provide an answer key showing corrected capitalizations for practice sentences.

Students are asked to write a dated friendly letter with a greeting and a closing and are given explicit examples showing capitalized forms (e.g., "January 11, 2020," "Dear Sarah," and "Sincerely, Emma"). The Student Activity organizer requires paragraph beginnings and names (Paragraph 1: Who you are, age, and location) which implicitly involve capitalized proper nouns and sentence starts. Students edit drafts with a focus on grammar and punctuation and use a rubric that asks them to check spelling, punctuation, and comma usage.

Students are asked in Activity 2 (The ABCs, Option 1) to select one object word for each letter A–Z and write it on the blank next to each listed letter, and to illustrate each object. In Option 2 students must write a lesson plan for teaching the letters A, B, and C and describe activities and materials for teaching those letters. The Student Activity Pages display individual letters (A–M, N–Z) and large background letters (a, b, c), which prompts students to attend to letter forms.

Students are asked to write answers in a journal to comprehension questions (Chapters 7-9) and reflective prompts (Activity 3). Students must complete written tasks such as filling in "Character Timelines" and recording descriptions on the "A Desert Island" student activity page. The activity page includes labeled writing fields (Item: a knife; Item: a home; Item: food) and a title area that prompt students to produce written text.

Students are asked to answer comprehension questions in a journal, which requires them to write sentences (e.g., answers to QUESTIONS #1–#7). Students must record three passages from the story on the "Word Pictures" page and write corresponding text lines for each passage. Students must complete the "Values" worksheet by writing three values for each character and describing how they demonstrate those values, including short written reflections under "My Values."

The lesson's Skills section explicitly states that students should "accurately use capitalization and punctuation, such as commas, in writing," and it directs students to "edit writing for standard grammar and usage." Activity 2 requires students to draft a persuasive letter or speech that they must support and edit. Activity 3 asks students to read their drafts, make corrections, and produce a final copy using the rubric as a guide, which includes items on punctuation and spelling under Grammar and Organization.

The Skills section includes "Use written language to report information on a topic," and multiple activities require the child to write sentences in a journal, compose a poem, and fill in Student Activity Pages. Activity prompts ask the child to write a sentence about each story, describe animal roles in ecosystems, and record information about cultural elements, with lines provided for writing on the activity pages. Proper nouns and titles (e.g., Native American, Inupiaq, Choctaws, Kiowa, U.S.) appear in the text that students will likely reference in their writing.

The lesson's Skills list explicitly tells students to "Use capitalization with proper nouns and punctuation, such as commas, in a series." The Rough Draft Rubric's Grammar and Spelling category asks students to check for "capitalization of proper nouns." The editing step directs students to read their drafts focusing on grammar and spelling, which includes correcting capitalization errors.

Students are asked to label and color the thirteen colonies using a provided list of colony names, which requires writing proper nouns such as New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, and Pennsylvania. Students fill in a kite-shaped diagram with biographical details about Benjamin Franklin, which requires writing names and place names (e.g., Benjamin Franklin, Boston, Philadelphia). Students are asked to write a poem about Philadelphia and to record journal entries comparing 1700s life to today, which require capitalizing place names and sentence starts.

Students are asked to copy a sentence from the book for each vocabulary word, which requires them to reproduce sentence capitalization. Students must write a new sentence using each vocabulary word (Option 1) or a sentence that could fit in the book (Option 2), requiring them to apply capitalization when composing sentences. Students also record factual and fictional events in the "Fact and Fiction" chart and answer journal questions about the chapters, producing written responses that would use standard capitalization.

Activity 3 explicitly instructs the student to "use correct capitalization and punctuation" when writing a paragraph in first person. The lesson requires students to write that paragraph (with specific constraints: at least ten adjectives, four adverbs, four conjunctions, varied sentence lengths), so students must apply capitalization in an extended writing task. Earlier activities also ask students to answer journal questions and record "Fact and Fiction," which require students to produce written responses.

The Writing Rubric's Mechanics section explicitly assesses "the use of capital letters," and the Activities include editing (Part 3) where the student is instructed to read the rubric and make changes and corrections. The Skills list includes "Edit for correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and features of polished writing," which directs students to attend to capitalization while revising and preparing a final copy.

The "Meet the Author" worksheet asks students to fill in blanks for name, birth place, places lived, and book titles, which require capitalization of proper nouns and titles. Option 2 asks students to write a short newspaper article about C.S. Lewis, and Activity 4 asks students to answer questions in a journal or online; both require composing sentences that include capitalized names and sentence starts. The Skills section includes "Compose a draft" and use of reference materials to verify spelling, indicating students will produce written work.

The rubric on the Student Activity Page explicitly asks, "Did you use correct capitalization and punctuation?", which directs students to check capitalization. Activity 3 asks students to read through their paragraphs and check for punctuation and spelling errors during revision, and the Skills list includes "Edit for appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation" which frames editing practice. Activity 4 asks students to produce a final copy and run spell check, reinforcing revision and final-check habits.

Students are introduced to acronyms with explicit examples ("FBI stands for Federal Bureau of Investigation" and "NFL stands for National Football League") and are asked to create expansions for BFG (example: "Be Friendly and Gracious"), which demonstrates capitalization of acronym letters and capitalized words in phrase expansions. Students read text that includes capitalized proper nouns and titles (e.g., Queen of England, The BFG) and answer questions about the text. Students are assigned writing tasks (a descriptive paragraph or a song/poem) where they will produce written sentences that could show use of capitalization.

Students are asked to write answers in a journal to comprehension questions, which requires composing sentences (Questions section). Students are asked to record quotes from Sophie and the BFG on a "Quotable Quotes" page, which requires copying or transcribing sentence-level text. Students are asked to write a descriptive paragraph about a dream and another paragraph about using an incredible power of hearing, which gives multiple opportunities to produce written sentences.

The Skills list explicitly states that students should "Use correct capitalization and punctuation." Both activity rubrics list "Capitalization and punctuation" or "Correct capitalization and punctuation" as criteria for evaluation. Directions require students to write titles, three-paragraph compositions, and formal newspaper articles, all tasks that ask students to apply capitalization (e.g., title case, sentence-initial capitalization, proper nouns).

Students are asked to label Africa and Botswana on a map and to include the capital city Gaborone and the Kalahari Desert, which requires writing proper nouns. Students are prompted to write a descriptive paragraph or a short story that includes five facts about meerkats, which requires composing sentences and thus would involve using capitalization. Several activity page titles and prompts (e.g., "The Meerkat," "Making A Meerkat") present proper nouns and sentence starts that students will reproduce when completing tasks.

Students are asked to complete an Editing activity in which they correct three paragraphs for grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. The provided answer notes specific capitalization corrections (for example, capitalizing "Africa" and the name "Pontsho"). The editing notes also point out capitalization of names (e.g., Pontsho, Obed) so students practice identifying and fixing improper lowercase letters in proper nouns.

Students are asked to write a four-paragraph book report (Organizing the Report, Step 1) and to produce a final copy (Step 3), which requires applying writing conventions. Students are directed to read their draft and participate in a conference to "review the rubric" and "make changes that will improve the content, grammar, and organization" (Step 2). The organizer prompts and paragraph headings require students to compose complete sentences and paragraphs, providing opportunities to use capitalization in their writing.

Students are asked in Activity 2 (Option 1) to write an acrostic poem in which each line begins with a specified letter shown as a capital (J, A, P, A, N), which requires them to begin lines with those letters. In Activity 4, students must locate and label places on a map (Hiroshima, Kyoto, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Mt. Fuji, Sea of Japan, Pacific Ocean, etc.), which requires writing proper nouns that are capitalized. Several writing tasks (acrostic poem, travel poster, Venn diagram labels) require students to produce written words and titles.

The lesson provides explicit rules for capitalizing titles: "In a title, capitalize the first and last word. Capitalize all words in the middle except articles ('a,' 'an,' 'the') and short prepositions (like 'in' and 'on')." Activity 2 (Titles) directs students to study those rules and to correct and rewrite example sentences and their own book/poem/movie titles, giving students practice applying title-capitalization and underlining/italicizing conventions. The Skills section lists "Use correct capitalization and punctuation" and "Underline and capitalize book titles," indicating student tasks focused on title capitalization.

Students read chapter text and student activity sentences that consistently show correct capitalization (e.g., sentence-initial capitals and proper nouns such as "Camp Green Lake," "Sam," "Katherine Barlow," "Clyde Livingston," "Mr. Sir," "Zero," and "Stanley"). Students are asked to read chapters aloud with intonation, exposing them to sentence-initial capitalization in context. Activity 2 (Option 2) asks students to write a poem or song, which requires them to produce written text where capitalization could appear.

Activity 1 directs students to write a business letter and lists the five parts (sender's name, sender's address, date, recipient's address, greeting, body, closure, signature). The Student Activity Page provides a template with labeled fields (Sender's name, Sender's address, Date, Recipient's address, Greeting, Body, Closure, Signature, Typed/printed name) for students to fill in. The lesson asks students to compose the letter either by hand on the organizer or by typing it on the computer.

Students are asked during Activity 3 to read their organizer, make corrections, and produce a final copy, which requires them to apply conventions when revising. The Reflective Writing Rubric explicitly asks students: "Did you begin all sentences with a capital letter and correct punctuation?" and "Did you use capital letters for proper nouns?" indicating students will check and correct sentence-initial capitals and capitalization of proper nouns during editing.

Students are asked to write a script using several lines provided on the Student Activity Page and to complete labeled fields such as Name, Date, and Skill/Objective, which requires written text entry. The facts and definitions section and headings use capitalized terms (e.g., Script, Set, Prop, Stage Directions; Title: The Newcomer), providing models of capitalization in labels and examples. Activities direct students to reread pages and prepare written products (Venn diagram, chart, script), which involve producing capitalized words in context.

The Skills list explicitly tells students to "Use correct punctuation and capitalization." In the Using Quotation Marks activity, students insert missing punctuation and complete quoted sentences that show capitalized sentence beginnings and capitalized proper names (for example, names like Pedro, Columbus, San Salvador, October appear throughout the text). Students must also write two original quoted sentences, which requires them to apply capitalization at the start of quotes and for speaker names.

The lesson includes multiple capitalized headings and titles (e.g., "Journal Writing," "Selecting an Event," "Pre-Writing," "Writing the Entry") and the Student Activity Pages describe their titles in bold, providing models of capitalization. The instructions explicitly tell students to "include the date at the top of the page," which may prompt use of capitalized month names or day names. The activity pages show labeled sections ("Directions," "Questions," "Title") that model conventional capitalization in labels.

The Skills section explicitly lists "Use correct punctuation and capitalization," indicating students are expected to apply capitalization. Activity 2 asks students to write two or three sentences of dialogue and a five-line conversation between Pedro and Columbus, with starter prompts like "Pedro declared," and "Columbus explained," which require capitalizing names and sentence starts. The Student Activity Page description instructs students to ensure correct punctuation when writing dialogue.

Students are asked to write the names of six characters on the Characters Cube and to add two or three descriptive words or phrases for each, which requires use of proper nouns. The Vocabulary Cube directs students to write sentences using six vocabulary words, and the Quotes Cube asks students to write sentences that contain quoted text (with a reminder to use correct punctuation). Several other cubes (Similes, Historical Fiction, Exploration, Survival) require students to record or write facts, similes, or descriptions on the cube faces.

Students work with acronyms (PBS, IRS, IQ, SCUBA, UFO, PC, AC, NASA, NIMH) and are asked to think of and write what each acronym stands for, including filling letter-by-letter boxes on the Student Activity Page. The activity gives expanded forms with initial capitals (e.g., Public Broadcasting System, Internal Revenue Service) and asks students to make up words for NIMH, which requires producing initial capital letters for each word. The directions and examples emphasize formation and representation of multiword abbreviations using initial letters.

Students are asked to write vocabulary words on note cards and record definitions (Activity 2 Options 1 and 2), fill in a dialog using vocabulary words on the Student Activity Page, and write journal answers to reading questions. The lesson text and activity pages present capitalized items that students will copy or use in writing, such as the title "Life at NIMH," chapter names (The Maze, A Lesson in Reading), and the acronym "DNA."

The Skills section explicitly lists "Use correct capitalization and punctuation," signaling that students are expected to practice capitalization. Students are given multiple sentences on the Combining Sentences worksheets that are written with correct initial capitals and proper nouns (e.g., "The rats...", "Nicodemus", "NIMH", "Mrs. Frisby"), which model standard capitalization. Students are also asked to write summaries and invent descriptions, tasks that require them to produce written text where capitalization would be applied.