Third grade language arts skills

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Reading foundations Foundations

Reading strategies Reading

Writing strategies Writing

Vocabulary Vocab

Grammar and mechanics Grammar

Reading foundations

A. Short and long vowels

1
Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words

2
Spell rhyming words to answer riddles

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New! Spell the long a word: silent e, ai, ay, ea, ey, eigh

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New! Spell the long e word: silent e, ee, ea, ie

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New! Spell the long i word: silent e, ie, y, igh, ind, ild

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New! Spell the long o word: silent e, oa, ow, old, ost, olt

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New! Spell the long u word: silent e, ue, oo, ew, ui

B. Blends, digraphs, and trigraphs

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Complete the word with a three-letter consonant blend

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New! Spell the digraph word: ch, sh, th

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New! Spell the digraph or trigraph word: ph, mb, kn, wh, dge, tch

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New! Spell words with final consonant patterns: ng, nk

C. Multisyllabic words

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Spell words with open and closed syllables

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Spell consonant-l-e words

D. Variant, diphthong, and r vowel patterns

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New! Spell words with r vowel patterns

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New! Spell words with vowel diphthong patterns

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New! Spell words with variant vowels: oo, ou, ow, ea

E. Irregular words

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New! Select the letters that make a given sound

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Spell the sight word: easier

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New! Spell the sight word: harder

Reading strategies

F. Main idea

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Use key details to determine the main idea

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Determine the main idea of a passage

G. Theme

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Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales

H. Author's purpose

1
Identify the author's purpose: mixed media

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Identify the author's purpose: passages

I. Text structure

1
Determine the order of events in informational texts

2
Compare and contrast in informational texts

3
Match causes with effects

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Match causes and effects in informational texts

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Match problems with their solutions

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Identify text structures

J. Sensory details

1
Sort sensory details

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Identify sensory details

K. Literary devices

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Similes with pictures

2
Determine the meanings of similes

L. Point of view

1
Distinguish characters' points of view

2
Compare information from two informational texts

M. Inference

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Which book title goes with the picture?

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Use actions and dialogue to understand characters

3
Draw inferences from a text

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Make predictions about a story

N. Story elements

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Identify story elements

O. Visual elements

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Compare mythological illustrations

P. Text features

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Use text features

Q. Rhyme

1
Label the rhyme scheme

R. Literary texts: level 1

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Read fantasy with illustrations

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Read historical fiction with illustrations

3
Read science fiction with illustrations

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Read realistic fiction with illustrations

S. Literary texts: level 2

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Read realistic fiction: set 1

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Read realistic fiction: set 2

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Read historical fiction

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Read poetry

T. Informational texts: level 1

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Read about animals

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Read about food

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Read about art, music, and traditions

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Read about sports and hobbies

U. Informational texts: level 2

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Read about famous people

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Read about famous places

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Read about business and technology

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Read about science and nature

Writing strategies

V. Organizing writing

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Put the sentences in order

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Order items from most general to most specific

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Organize information by main idea

W. Topic sentences

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Select the detail that does not support the topic sentence

2
Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs

3
Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs

X. Writer's purpose

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Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose

Y. Linking words

1
Identify time-order words

2
Use time-order words

3
Use coordinating conjunctions

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Use subordinating conjunctions

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Choose the best transition

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Use linking words to complete a passage

Z. Opinion writing

1
Distinguish facts from opinions

2
Identify an author's statement of opinion

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Choose reasons to support an opinion

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Complete the opinion passage with an example

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Complete the opinion passage with a reason

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Complete the opinion-reason-example table

AA. Descriptive details

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Add descriptive details to sentences

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Show character emotions and traits

3
Revise the sentence using a stronger verb

BB. Sentence variety

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Combine sentences: subjects and predicates

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Combine sentences by adding key details

3
Create varied sentences based on models

CC. Editing and revising

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Correct errors with signs

Vocabulary

DD. Prefixes and suffixes

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Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes

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Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis-

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Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis-

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Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less

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Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness

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Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment

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Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review

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Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review

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Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning

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Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech

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Word pattern analogies

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Word pattern sentences

EE. Greek and Latin roots

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Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

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Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

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Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

FF. Compound words

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Form compound words with pictures

2
Form compound words

3
Form and use compound words

GG. Categories

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Select the members of a group

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Select the words that don't belong

HH. Synonyms and antonyms

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Choose the synonym

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Which sentence has the same meaning?

3
Find synonyms in context

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Choose the antonym

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Which sentence uses an antonym?

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Find antonyms in context

II. Homophones

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Homophones with pictures

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Identify homophones

3
Use the correct homophone

JJ. Multiple-meaning words

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Multiple-meaning words with pictures

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Which definition matches the sentence?

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Which sentence matches the definition?

KK. Shades of meaning

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Shades of meaning with pictures

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Describe the difference between related words

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Positive and negative connotation

LL. Idioms

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Choose the picture that matches the idiomatic expression

MM. Context clues

1
Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context

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Use context to identify the meaning of a word

3
Use academic vocabulary in context

NN. Reference skills

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Order alphabetically based on the first letter

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Order alphabetically based on the first two letters

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Order alphabetically based on the first three letters

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Order alphabetically: challenge

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Use guide words

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Use dictionary entries

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Use dictionary definitions

Grammar and mechanics

OO. Sentences, fragments, and run-ons

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Is the sentence a statement, question, command, or exclamation?

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Identify the complete subject of a sentence

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Identify the complete predicate of a sentence

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Identify the simple subject or predicate of a sentence

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Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?

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Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?

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Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?

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Is the sentence simple or compound?

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Create compound sentences

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Order the words to create a sentence

PP. Nouns

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Which word is a noun?

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Identify nouns

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Identify nouns – with abstract nouns

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Identify common and proper nouns

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Form regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies

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Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies

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Is the noun singular or plural?

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Form and use irregular plurals

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Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives

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Form the singular or plural possessive

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Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

QQ. Pronouns

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Identify personal pronouns

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Choose between subject and object personal pronouns

3
Replace the noun with a personal pronoun

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Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"

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Identify possessive pronouns

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Use possessive pronouns

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Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns

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Use reflexive pronouns

RR. Verb types

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Use action verbs

2
Identify action verbs

3
Identify main verbs and helping verbs

SS. Subject-verb agreement

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Is the subject singular or plural?

2
Use the correct subject or verb

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Pronoun-verb agreement

TT. Verb tense

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Which sentence is in the regular past tense?

2
Identify verbs in the regular past tense

3
Form and use the regular past tense

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Identify the irregular past tense I

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Identify the irregular past tense II

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Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1

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Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2

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Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3

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Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4

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Form and use the irregular past tense: set 5

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To be: use the correct form

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To have: use the correct form

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Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?

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Change the sentence to future tense

UU. Articles

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Use the correct article: a or an

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Use the correct article: a, an, or the

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Identify articles

VV. Adjectives and adverbs

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Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many?

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Identify the adjective that describes the noun

3
Identify adjectives

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Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where?

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Identify adverbs

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Choose between adjectives and adverbs

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Is the word an adjective or adverb?

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Use adjectives to compare

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Spell adjectives that compare

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Use adverbs to compare

WW. Prepositions

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Identify prepositions

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Identify prepositions and their objects

3
Identify prepositional phrases

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Prepositions: review

XX. Conjunctions

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Identify coordinating conjunctions

2
Identify subordinating conjunctions

YY. Contractions

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Pronoun-verb contractions

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Contractions with "not"

ZZ. Commas

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Commas with a series

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Commas with dates

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Commas with the names of places

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Commas with direct addresses and after introductory words

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Commas: review

AAA. Capitalization

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Capitalizing the names of people and pets and titles of respect

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Capitalizing days, months, and holidays

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Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features

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Capitalizing proper adjectives, nationalities, and languages

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Capitalization: review

BBB. Abbreviations

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Abbreviate days of the week

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Abbreviate months of the year

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Abbreviate people's titles

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Abbreviate customary units of measurement

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Abbreviate metric units of measurement

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Abbreviate street names

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Abbreviate state names

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Abbreviate street names and state names: review

CCC. Formatting

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Greetings and closings of letters

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Formatting street addresses

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Capitalizing titles

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Formatting titles

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Formatting and capitalizing titles

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Punctuating dialogue