C.O.P.S. CHECKLIST

Call the COPS because your writing needs some help! SH! - Be quiet and follow their rules to make your writing the best it can be.

CAPITALIZATION

First letter of each sentence

Proper names of people and places

Titles of books, songs, movies

Months and days of the week

Historical events

Holidays

Nationalities

ORGANIZATION

Handwriting is neat

Paper is neat

Words spaced properly

All sentences are complete

Order of sentences makes sense

Paragraphs indented

Clear beginning, middle, and end

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PUNCTUATION

Each sentence has correct punctuation

Quotation marks at start and end of quotes

Punctuation inside ending quotation marks

Apostrophes in correct place

Correct comma use

SPELLING

All words spelled correctly

Correct homonyms used to/too, they’re/their/there, its/it’s

Used dictionary, spell check, or asked for help with

difficult words

Proper names spelled correctly

SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Each sentence has a subject

Each sentence has an action

Sentences do not run on

Used different sentence structures

HANDWRITING

Letters formed correctly

Easily read all words

Words and letters spaced evenly

Capital letters taller than lower case letters