Georgia 1.L.GC.1.12

ELA1st GradeGrammar, Usage, & Mechanics

The Standard

Mechanics: Capitalize proper nouns. (Continue)

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify words that name specific people, pets, places, days, and months. They use a capital letter at the beginning of each proper noun when writing.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students correctly capitalize specific names, including people, pets, places, days, and months. They can explain that each capitalized word names one particular person, place, or thing.
Common Misconceptions: Students may capitalize every noun, only the first word in a sentence, or words they think are special. They may miss capitals in names of people, pets, places, days, and months.
How to Assess It: Give students this sentence: “maya visits atlanta on monday.” Ask them to rewrite it with correct capitalization and circle each proper noun.

Lesson moves

Give students noun cards to sort under “special name” and “general name,” then have them fix capitalization on the special-name cards.
Ask students to write one sentence naming a person, place, and day, then explain why each proper noun begins with a capital.
Play Capital Letter Detective by showing short sentences and awarding points when partners find and correct lowercase proper nouns.
Read a simple calendar and local map, then write sentences using correctly capitalized days, months, streets, parks, and city names.

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