205 Review
Convention: Capitalizing Street Names
👩🏫 Teacher’s Guide
Objective
Students will review organization skills from Unit 2 and practice capitalizing street names correctly when writing addresses or places.
Teaching Notes
- Review skills: beginning–middle–end, order, complete endings, grouping ideas.
- Explain that review helps writers remember what they learned.
- Teach that street names are special names and must be capitalized.
- Model writing a simple address with correct capitalization.
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🧒 Student Worksheet
Helping Material
Good writers organize ideas so they make sense.
They tell ideas in order and finish their writing clearly.
Street names are proper names.
They always start with capital letters.
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Modeled Improvement (Before → After)
1. Before: i live on main street.
After:
Why it’s better:
2. Before: my school is on oak road.
After:
Why it’s better:
3. Before: we walk on pine avenue.
After:
Why it’s better:
4. Before: i go home on first street.
After:
Why it’s better:
5. Before: the park is on maple lane.
After:
Why it’s better:
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Writing Choices Q&A
1. Why do writers organize ideas?
2. What are the three parts of writing?
3. What does a complete ending do?
4. Should street names be capitalized?
5. Is Main Street written correctly?
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Mini Activities
1. Fix the Street Name
i live on river road
2. Spot the Street
Which is a street name?
3. Order the Ideas
walk → stop → home
4. Finish the Writing
I went to the park and then _____.
5. Say It Clearly
Write a sentence with a street name.
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Writing Samples
(5 samples · 3–5 sentences · review of organization + capitalized street names)
Going Home
My School
At the Park
My Neighborhood
After Dinner
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Reflection
- What rule did you practice today?