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Grade 2 Reading & Writing · World 1: Sound Sprouts · Level 5
Common and Proper Nouns
Sort city vs Atlanta, and capitalize names, places, days, and months.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 5
- A noun names a person, place, or thing. Girl, city, and dog are nouns.
- Those are common nouns. They name any girl, any city, any dog.
- A proper noun names one special person, place, or thing, like Maya, Atlanta, or Rex. Proper nouns start with a capital letter!
- Days and months are proper nouns too: Monday, July.
- Your turn! Tap the words that need a capital letter.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 2.L.GC.1.9 — Use common and proper nouns.
- 2.L.GC.1.12 — Capitalize proper nouns.