First graders learn the rules for capital letters, from the start of a sentence to people's names and the word I, and sort words into those that need a capital and those that stay lowercase.
Students will be able to…
Maria and Monday start with a capital, but cat and run do not. When does a word need a capital letter?
Project this and sort each word into needs a capital or stays lowercase — tap a word, then tap where it belongs.
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Some words start with a big capital letter, like Maria and Monday, and some do not, like cat and run. How do we know which is which?
Students sort words into needs-a-capital and lowercase.
Students add missing capitals.
Students find capitals in a book.
Students reflect on capital letters.
Aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.
Capitalize dates, names of people, and the first word in a sentence.
Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names.
Use common and proper nouns correctly in sentences.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students open a book, find three capital letters, and say why each is capitalized, so the rules connect to real reading. A printable capital-letters worksheet is in the English Language Arts library.
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