Capital Letter

Summary
An introductory lesson about how to capitalize sentences.

Objectives
• to show children how to begin a sentence with a capital letter;

• to provide examples of sentences beginning with a capital;

• to test knowledge and understanding with appropriate exercises.

Suggested Grades
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade

Excerpt
A sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense. It needs two things:

1. A subject: who or what is doing the action;
2. A predicate: the action done by the subject.

? Jenny baked a cake.

This is a complete thought. It makes a sentence. Do you notice how the word Jenny begins? It begins with a capital letter. Proper nouns or names always begin with a capital letter. But what if our sentence does not begin with a proper noun?

? The cake tasted good.

This sentence begins with the word the. The is not a proper noun, so why is it capitalized? Sentences always begin with a capital letter. Always.

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