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Grade 4 Reading & Writing · World 5: Sentence Harbor · Level 42
Capitals and Titles
Formal titles (Dr. Ruiz, Governor, Captain), abbreviations (Mr., Jan., Rd., U.S.), proper adjectives (Italian, Chinese), and titles of works (italics or underlining for books and movies, quotation marks for poems, songs, and stories).
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 42
- Capital letters mark names, and a title in front of a name is part of the name: Captain Ortiz, Governor Diaz, Dr. Ruiz.
- Without a name, a title is a regular word: the governor visited. With a name, it gets a capital: Governor Diaz visited.
- Abbreviations are short ways to write words. Most end with a period, and the ones for names, titles, days, months, and places get a capital: Mr., Jan., Rd., U.S.
- Adjectives made from places get capitals too: Italian food, a Chinese song, French bread.
- Titles of long works, like books, movies, and magazines, go in italics when you type, or get underlined when you write by hand.
- Titles of short works, like poems, songs, stories, and articles, go in quotation marks.
- In any title, capitalize the first word, the last word, and the important words. Small words like the, of, and on stay lowercase in the middle.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 4.L.GC.1.35 — Mechanics: Recognize and use conventional capitalization in abbreviations, proper adjectives, and formal titles. (Master)
- 4.L.GC.1.41 — Mechanics: Use conventional capitalization and underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works. (Continue)