A sentence always begins with a capital letter. You have learned this rule since kindergarten.

The cat is black.

Names begin with capital letters. You have learned this rule since first grade.

More examples: Brihanna, Mrs. Lally, Dr. Dobles, President-elect Biden, Ethan

This rule is different in Spanish and English. In English, the names of months begin with capital letters.

Examples: January, February, March BUT enero, febrero, marzo

Remember, months begin with a capital letter. This is different than in Spanish!!

Yes! In English the names of holidays should start with a capital.

You learned this in second grade.

The names of specific places start with a capital letter. This is a rule you learned in second grade.

ex: Atlantic Ocean, United States, Massachusetts, Framingham.

In English, we capitalize the names of groups of people.

For example: the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag, Puerto Ricans

Time for a third grade rule. Hope you're ready to get trickier!

In English, we capitalize MOST of the words in the title of a book.

Some words you don't have to capitalize unless they are first (a, the, an, and, but, for, or, by, in,)

Look at all those capital letters!