Kentucky Reading and Writing L.2.2.a
The Standard
- L.2.2
- When writing:
Capitalize proper nouns, including but not limited to holidays, product names and geographic names.
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 tell the difference between a specific name and a general word. They capitalize names such as Thanksgiving, Crayola, and Lake Erie, but not words such as holiday, crayon, or lake.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student writes Lake Erie, Labor Day, and Crayola correctly in a sentence. They leave general words such as lake, holiday, and crayons lowercase.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students capitalize every noun, writing Holiday or Crayons in the middle of a sentence. Others capitalize only the first word of a name, writing Lake erie or Labor day.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Rewrite this sentence with the correct capitals: 'On labor day, Maya visited lake erie and ate cheerios by the lake.' Circle the names you fixed.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards labeled kentucky, crayola, thanksgiving, state, crayon, and holiday; have them sort names from general words and fix capitals.
Ask students to write why Thanksgiving starts with a capital but holiday does not, then share their answer with a partner.
Play Name or Not with lake/Lake Erie and cereal/Cheerios; students write each name with correct capitals on mini whiteboards.
Have students scan a school calendar and a grocery flyer for holiday and product names, then copy three with correct capitals.
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