English Language Arts
Grade 3
15 min
Capitalizing days, months, and holidays
Capitalizing days, months, and holidays
What you'll learn
- Identify at least 8 out of 10 adverbs in sentences correctly.
- Explain how adverbs modify verbs by providing at least 3 different examples.
- Apply adverbs to improve 5 given sentences, demonstrating how they add detail and clarity.
- Categorize adverbs based on what they describe (how, when, where) with 100% accuracy in a given list of 10 adverbs.
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Introduction & Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
Identify the days of the week, months of the year, and holidays in a sentence.
Explain why these specific words need a capital letter.
Correctly capitalize all days of the week in their own writing.
Correctly capitalize all months of the year when writing dates or sentences.
Correctly capitalize the names of specific holidays.
Find and correct capitalization errors for days, months, and holidays in given sentences.
When is your birthday? 🎂 Is your favorite holiday in the winter or the summer? Let's learn how to write these special days correctly!
In this lesson, we will learn a very important capitalization rule: how to capitalize the names of days, months, and holidays. Using capital letters for these special words makes our writing clear and easy...
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Key Concepts & Vocabulary
TermDefinitionExample
Capital LetterA 'big' letter used at the beginning of a sentence or for a special name (like A, B, C).The dog's name is Buddy, not buddy.
Proper NounThe special name of a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns always start with a capital letter.Instead of 'girl', we say 'Maria'. 'Maria' is a proper noun.
Day of the WeekThe specific name for one of the seven days in a week. These are proper nouns.Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Month of the YearThe specific name for one of the twelve months in a year. These are proper nouns.January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
HolidayThe specific name of a special day that people celebrate....
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Key Rules & Conventions
Rule 1: Capitalize Days of the Week
Always start the name of a day of the week with a capital letter.
Use this rule whenever you write Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. It doesn't matter where the word is in the sentence.
Rule 2: Capitalize Months of the Year
Always start the name of a month with a capital letter.
Use this rule for all twelve months, from January to December. This is especially important when writing the date.
Rule 3: Capitalize Holidays
Always start the name of a specific holiday with a capital letter.
Use this rule for special celebration days like New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, or Halloween. If the holiday has more than one word, capitalize the important words.
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Challenging
Read the paragraph below. Which sentence is written correctly with no capitalization mistakes? (1) My favorite month is october. (2) I love when the leaves change colors. (3) We always go to the pumpkin patch on a Saturday. (4) My favorite holiday, halloween, is at the end of the month.
A.Sentence 1
B.Sentence 3
C.Sentence 2
D.Sentence 4
Challenging
Which sentence correctly follows the capitalization rules for special times of the year?
A.My favorite season is Summer, but my favorite holiday is the Fourth of July.
B.In the winter, we celebrate Christmas.
C.My birthday is in the Spring, on a special saturday.
D.We have a party every Fall for halloween.
Challenging
Read the sentences below and find the one that has a capitalization mistake.
A.Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a holiday in January.
B.What are you doing on Wednesday afternoon?
C.The last day of school is Thursday, June 5th.
D.We are going to the beach next Week, on friday.
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You'll be able to: Identify at least 8 out of 10 adverbs in sentences correctly; Explain how adverbs modify verbs by providing at least 3 different examples; Apply adverbs to improve 5 given sentences, demonstrating how they add detail and clarity.
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