Virginia SOL K.LU.2.A
The Standard
With guidance and support, begin each sentence with a capital letter and capitalize the pronoun I
Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Mechanics
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify where capital letters belong in short sentences. They correct sentence beginnings and the word used when a speaker names themself.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students write a capital at the start of a simple sentence without a reminder. They also write uppercase I when referring to themselves.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may use a lowercase letter at the start or add capitals to random words. They may write lowercase i when it stands alone or capitalize every i in a word.
How to Assess It
- Give students: “i see a dog. it can run.” Ask them to circle two letters that need capitals, then rewrite the sentences.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips, letter tiles, and crayons to replace lowercase sentence beginnings and standalone i with the correct capital letters.
Ask students to write two sentences about themselves, then explain why they used capitals in two places.
Play Capital Fix-Up by showing one sentence card at a time and having students hold up the capital letter that repairs it.
Read a classroom note with missing capitals, then let students correct it before posting the note for families.
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- K.FFR.1.F
Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation)
- 1.LU.2.A
Capitalize the first word in a sentence, proper nouns, and the pronoun I.
- K.LU.2.B
With guidance and support, identify statements and questions and use ending punctuation (e.g., period and question mark)
- 3.W.3.B
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