Kentucky Reading and Writing L.1.2.a
The Standard
- L.1.2
- When writing:
Capitalize proper nouns, including but not limited to dates and names of people.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Conventions of General American English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use capital letters for names of people, days of the week, and months. They leave words like friend, day, and month lowercase unless they start a sentence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student writes “Mia” and “Monday” with capitals in a sentence about a visit. They can point to each word and explain that it names a particular person or day.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may write “monday” or “april” in lowercase because those words appear in the middle of a sentence. Others capitalize words like friend or month because they appear next to a name.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to fix this sentence: “I saw my friend mia on monday in april.” Check that they capitalize Mia, Monday, and April, but not friend.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a paper calendar and name cards; have them circle day and month names, then place a name card on a date.
Ask students to write why “Friday” needs a capital but “day” does not, using a calendar page to check.
Play a card sort with Tuesday, girl, Malik, month, August, and park; students sort words that need capitals from common words.
Have students copy a date from the school lunch calendar and write who they will eat with, checking capitals in names.
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