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Video lesson
Practice 1.4.1: Introduction to capitalization
Practice 1.4.2: A capital story
Practice 1.4.3: The capitalized candle
Practice 1.4.4: A capital cat poem
Quiz 1.4.5: Capitalization
Teacher Guide
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Skills in focus:
In Standard English, we capitalize the first letter of a word in the following circumstances:
The first word of a sentence
Proper nouns: Names a specific noun, such as a person or a place
We do not capitalize common nouns, which are generic names for a class or group.
Proper adjectives: Adjectives whose description is based on a proper noun, such as a place or person
An adjective is a word that describes a noun.
We do not capitalize common adjectives, even if they describe a proper noun.
We capitalize these words because doing so signals they are important and unique people and places.