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Target 1: Capital Letters Capitals

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Task 1 (Your first piece of evidence of success)

1. Find the proper nouns in the list below and circle the letters that should be capital
letters:-

cat julie book holiday monday

Have you

doctor dr gilbert scotland year circled
nine
letters?
river africa sad august river nile

2. Circle or highlight the letters that should be capitals in this passage:-

ranjit and his friends david and sam are going to france for a holiday on
monday. they are flying to paris from birmingham airport. i went to france
in july and enjoyed seeing the eiffel tower in paris so i told them they

should see it too. i gave ranjit a book called “touring france” to help plan
their journey.

Now rewrite the passage correctly below:-

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How many capital letters did you find? There should be 20 altogether.
20 Top marks! Excellent work!
17 -19 Quite good, read the summary again and try to find the missing capitals. Use a
different coloured highlighter or underline the letters this time.
16 or Read the summary again. Try the task again to find all 20 capital letters.
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