Capitalization rules dictate that proper nouns such as names, days of the week, months, titles, places, organizations, companies, products, religions, languages, nationalities, holidays, book titles, and the first word of a sentence should be capitalized. Examples are provided to demonstrate capitalization of these types of words in sentences. The document provides an overview of capitalization rules and when to use capital letters versus lowercase letters in writing.

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Essential Question:
Why do we use
capitalization and
punctuation in writing ?

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Capital letter vs. lower case letter
What are the rules ??

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Sample capitalization test question:
Wanda wouldn’t offer her little brother a
A
Christmas cookie because he ate all of her
B
Halloween candy last october.
C
A. Brother
B. Cookie
C. October
D. No change is necessary.

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C apitalize the
first letter of the first
word of a sentence.

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each student likes to earn their
reward for the class party.

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capitalize the
pronoun .

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Dr. Daigle thinks that i should
go to college at LSU.

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Capitalize proper nouns:
o Days of the week
o Months
o Names

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today is monday, october 31,
2011 – which is also known as
halloween.

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Titles before nouns
 Doctor Brent Daigle
 President Barack Obama
 Reverend Sykes

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Specific places
 Stevi B’s
 Six Flags
 Acworth Park

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Organizations
 Boy Scouts
 Girl Scouts
 American Red Cross

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Companies
 Coca-Cola
 Starbucks
 McDonald’s

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Product Names
 Trix cereal
 Oreo cookies
 Reese’s peanut butter cups

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Religion
 Catholic
 Methodist
 Christianity
 Muslim

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Languages
 Cajun French
 French
 Spanish
 English

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Nationalities
 American
 African-American
 Hispanic
 Korean

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Holidays
 Independence Day
 Labor Day
 Thanksgiving
 Chanukah

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Regions of the county
 the South
 the Northeast
 the West

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Book Titles
 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid
 Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale

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Example sentences
my father is arriving from
louisiana next week.

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Example sentences
will you pick him
up at the airport
in atlanta?

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Example sentences
he will bring me an lsu
shirt, mug, and key ring.

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Example sentences
i want to go to the railroad museum
but tiffany does not want to join me.

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Example sentences
i went to the high museum of art
in atlanta, ga. to see paintings
by picasso, degas, and matisse.

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Example sentences
each sunday i attend mass at st.
ann catholic church in marietta, ga.

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Example sentences
I can speak
english, spanish, and
french.

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Example sentences
mrs. henry gives us hershey
candy bars as a reward for good
behavior.

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ASSESSMENT