Martin Luther King Writing Capitalization and Punctuation Practice | Biography

Martin Luther King Day or Black History Month are the perfect time to focus on this important man in history and the Civil Rights Movement. By using these no prep, differentiated biography passages, you can reinforce the story of Dr. King’s life and work as your students practice reading, writing, capitalization, punctuation, and sight words.

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Each page of this resource has two or three Martin Luther King themed sentences with missing capitals (beginning of a sentence, proper nouns, “I”) and punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point). The pages together make a simple biography of Martin Luther King.

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You’ll be giving your boys and girls sentences with no punctuation or capitals. Their job is to figure out where the sentences end, edit the sentences, and then rewrite them with correct capitalization and punctuation, as well as neat handwriting.

⚫ Skills practiced in this 25 page nonfiction book:

• Capitalizing beginning of sentences
• Capitalizing proper nouns
• Capitalizing a title
• Capitalizing and punctuating a date
• Punctuating sentences
• Abbreviations and what they mean: Mr. Mrs. Dr.
• Vocabulary: doctorate, boycott, racial climate, minister, equal rights
• Geography: finding locations of events on a map

⚫ INCLUDED IN THIS HIGH INTEREST RESOURCE:

• Detailed Teacher Directions
• Editing Marks Anchor Charts
• "How do I Know Where the Sentences End?" Anchor Charts
• MLK-Themed Editing Pages
• Answer Keys
• Themed Lined Sheets for Student Generated Writing
• Themed Cover Pages to Make Student Books

⚫ There are THREE LEVELS so you can differentiate in your classroom:

• Easier Edit and Rewrite
• More Challenging Edit and Rewrite
• Student Generated Writing

⚫ Great to use for:

• Literacy Centers
• Independent Work
• Part of Guided Reading
• Intervention
• Assessment
• Enrichment
• Review
• Homework
• Substitutes

●●● Product page count includes 50 answer key pages.

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