A Grade 1 grammar course on capitalizing the names of places. The word “city” names any city. The word “Chicago” names one particular city, and that is why it takes a capital letter.
Students learn the rule for cities, states, and countries, then move to place names built from two words, where both words need a capital. “Bell Street” and “Hillside School” are the shapes children write most often and get wrong most often, because the second word looks like an ordinary word they already know. The final lesson puts place names inside sentences, where the same word can need a capital in one line and not in the next.
What you will learn
- Tell a special name for a place from a word that names any place
- Capitalize cities, states, and countries
- Capitalize both words in a place name like Bell Street
- Keep the capital letter wherever the name sits in a sentence
- Decide when a word like school or street needs a capital
A note for parents and teachers: this course builds directly on Special Names and Titles for People. The rule is the same one applied to places.