Students have met the three kinds of sentences one at a time. This course puts all three in play at once, which is what real writing demands.
The centerpiece is a two-step check that decides any end mark: does the sentence want an answer, and does it show strong feeling? If neither, it takes a period, which is where most sentences land. Students also learn the two capital letter rules a first grader needs every day, the first word of every sentence and the word I, and then work through a whole piece of writing fixing both at once.
This is the editing course. Less new information than the three before it, and far more deciding.
What you will learn
- Sort sentences into telling, asking, and strong feeling
- Choose among a period, a question mark, and an exclamation point
- Capitalize the first word of every sentence
- Always write the word I as a capital
- Fix capital letters and end marks across a whole piece of writing
A note for parents and teachers: capital letters on names, places, days, and holidays are taught in their own courses later. This course covers only the two rules that apply to every sentence.