Today I substituted for David. He was to use his A to Z word chart from yesterday to create a self essay. David worked diligently the entire period. I noticed he was not using proper capitalization and punctuation. I asked him, "Does Ms. Christy allow you to write your i's like that?" He said No. He likes to write the essays first and then he goes back and edits them. I actually thought that was a good idea, so his editing doesn't get in the way of his thought process/flow.