CAPITALIZATION RULES

Saraland SpartansMrs. Black4th Grade

CAPITALIZATION RULES

• Capitalize the first word in a sentence

– We attend Saraland Elementary.

– What grade are we in?

CAPITALIZATION RULES

• Capitalize the days of the week

– Today is Wednesday.

– Do you want to go skating on Saturday?

CAPITALIZATION RULES

• Capitalize the months of the year.

– It is cold in January and February.

– My favorite month is December.

CAPITALIZATION RULES

• Capitalize holidays.

– Kids get a lot of candy on Halloween and Valentine’s Day.

CAPITALIZATION RULES• Capitalize titles of books, movies,

plays, poems, and songs

– My mom read Where the Red Fern Grows while I watched Sponge Bob on television.

-Dad listened to “Love Me Tender” on his CD while I read “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein.

PEOPLEPEOPLE

• Capitalize names of people and pets. Connor likes to play baseball.

PeoplePeople• Capitalize the Capitalize the pronoun “I”pronoun “I”

Tony and I went to the Tony and I went to the aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia.aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia.

PEOPLE

• Capitalize initials in a name. We call my friend J.C. instead of James

Coleman.

• Capitalize titles of people. Dr. Brown went to see Governor Riley.

PEOPLE• Capitalize specific people.Capitalize specific people.

I asked Mother if I could try out for archery.

Not: I asked my mother if I could try out for archery.