capitalization rules saraland spartans mrs. black 4 th grade
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CAPITALIZATION RULES Capitalize the days of the week –Today is Wednesday. –Do you want to go skating on Saturday?TRANSCRIPT
CAPITALIZATION RULES
Saraland SpartansMrs. Black4th Grade
CAPITALIZATION RULES
• Capitalize the first word in a sentence
– We attend Saraland Elementary.
– What grade are we in?
CAPITALIZATION RULES
• Capitalize the days of the week
– Today is Wednesday.
– Do you want to go skating on Saturday?
CAPITALIZATION RULES
• Capitalize the months of the year.
– It is cold in January and February.
– My favorite month is December.
CAPITALIZATION RULES
• Capitalize holidays.
– Kids get a lot of candy on Halloween and Valentine’s Day.
CAPITALIZATION RULES• Capitalize titles of books, movies,
plays, poems, and songs
– My mom read Where the Red Fern Grows while I watched Sponge Bob on television.
-Dad listened to “Love Me Tender” on his CD while I read “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein.
PEOPLEPEOPLE
• Capitalize names of people and pets. Connor likes to play baseball.
PeoplePeople• Capitalize the Capitalize the pronoun “I”pronoun “I”
Tony and I went to the Tony and I went to the aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia.aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia.
PEOPLE
• Capitalize initials in a name. We call my friend J.C. instead of James
Coleman.
• Capitalize titles of people. Dr. Brown went to see Governor Riley.
PEOPLE• Capitalize specific people.Capitalize specific people.
I asked Mother if I could try out for archery.
Not: I asked my mother if I could try out for archery.