Assessment questions for recognizing capital letters at sentence beginnings (K ELA).

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🔑 Capital letters signal the start of a new sentence.
• ✍️ Every sentence begins with a capital letter.
• 🧐 This helps readers understand where one thought ends and another begins.
• 📌 Proper nouns (names of people, places, and things) also start with capital letters, but we're focusing on sentence beginnings here!
• 💡 Remember, after a period (.), you always start the next sentence with a capital letter.

📝 Practice Quiz

1. Which sentence is correctly capitalized?
   1. a cat sat on the mat.
   2. the Cat sat on the mat.
   3. The cat sat on the mat.
   4. the cat Sat on the mat.
2. Choose the correctly capitalized sentence.
   1. i went to the store.
   2. Went to the store.
   3. I went to the store.
   4. i Went to the store.
3. Which of these sentences needs a capital letter at the beginning?
   1. she is my friend.
   2. Is she my friend?
   3. we went to the park.
   4. did you see the dog?
4. What is the correct way to write this: the dog barked loudly.
   1. The dog barked loudly.
   2. the Dog barked loudly.
   3. The Dog Barked loudly.
   4. the dog barked Loudly.
5. Select the sentence that begins with a capital letter.
   1. is it raining today?
   2. It is raining today?
   3. it is raining today?
   4. iT is raining today?
6. Which option shows the right capitalization at the start of a sentence?
   1. dogs are great pets.
   2. Dogs are great pets.
   3. dogS are great pets.
   4. dOgs are great pets.
7. Which of the following sentences is correctly capitalized?
   1. we like to read books.
   2. We like to Read books.
   3. We Like to read books.
   4. We like to read books.