Lesson 1.4: Capitalization Print Lesson

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Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child the rules of capitalization.

Does your child use correct capitalization as their default? Do they know the difference between a common noun or adjective and a proper noun or adjective? Lesson 1.4: Capitalization teaches kids about capitalization conventions and introduces them to key concepts such as adjectives, proper nouns, proper adjectives, adverbs, and dialogue, all while unleashing their creativity. Our lessons combine original writing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.

Included in this booklet:

✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ 2 extension practices on common problem areas
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing

When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.

Length: 50 pages

Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted child the rules of capitalization.

Does your child use correct capitalization as their default? Do they know the difference between a common noun or adjective and a proper noun or adjective? Lesson 1.4: Capitalization teaches kids about capitalization conventions and introduces them to key concepts such as adjectives, proper nouns, proper adjectives, adverbs, and dialogue, all while unleashing their creativity. Our lessons combine original writing challenges suitable to the physical and emotional ability of younger children and multiple-choice questions that tease their powerful brains. We minimize repetition and draw on the deep wisdom of cats.

Included in this booklet:

✔️ 1 fun video lesson
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill
✔️ 2 extension practices on common problem areas
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz
✔️ Answer key: Robust explanations of the answers plus tips for assessing your child’s original writing

When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with a PDF booklet to download.

Length: 50 pages

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

  • Proper adjectives

  • For quoted text:

    • Capitalize the first word of a complete quoted sentence

    • Don’t capitalize partial quotes that are integrated into the sentence

    • Capitalize the first word after the quotation mark if it starts a new sentence

    • Do not capitalize dialogue tags unless they begin the sentence

      • A dialogue tag is the part of the sentence that is not in quotation marks

  • We capitalize these words because doing so signals they are important and unique people and places

  • Distinguish adjectives and adverbs

    • Adjectives modify nouns

    • Adverbs modify verbs

  • Capitalization in poetry is freer than in prose writing (our everyday way of writing, the basis of which is sentences)

    • A poem expresses an emotion, mood, or idea