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Capitalization
8th Grade
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Arkansas Academic Standards:
L.8.2.D
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.L.8.2c
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE8L2c
Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS):
L.8.2.c
Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards:
L.8.2c
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
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Spell correctly. |
Arizona - K-12 Academic Standards:
8.L.2.c
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Use correct spelling. |
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks:
L.8.2.c
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Spell correctly, recognizing that some words have commonly accepted variations (e.g., donut/doughnut). |
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
L.8.2.c
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Consistently apply conventional rules to spell words correctly |
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 8th Grade Writing - Capitalization Lesson
- Capitalization
- Important words in a text need to be capitalized. Here are some types of words that should always be capitalized:
I – the letter “I” is always capitalized when used on its own as a pronoun
First word – the first word in a sentence is always capitalized
Titles – the specific titles of people, books, TV shows, movies, songs, poems, works of art, etc.
Names – the names of people, countries, states, languages, holidays, mountains, etc.
Months – all months of the year (January, February, etc.)
Days – the days of the week (Monday, Tuesdays, etc.)
Directions – directions when they refer to a region (They moved from the East)
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