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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 14 of 16

Capitals, Periods & Planning

Write with capitals, periods and a plan.

What your child practices

Practices capital letters for names, I and the start of a sentence, periods and exclamation marks, five- or six-word sentences, planning a piece of writing by drawing or talking, putting ideas in order, simple text forms such as lists, letters, stories and information, and changing a piece after feedback.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: KW2; KW3 · planning simple texts: labels, lists, stories and facts

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A sentence starts with a capital letter.
  2. A sentence ends with a period.
  3. Plan what you will say before you write.

Example: Which is written correctly? “i like jam” or “I like jam.” Check for a capital I at the start. Check for a period at the end. Answer: I like jam.

Capitals, Periods & Planning in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 14 of 16 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Think About a Book and before Feelings and Reasons.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which tells a friend about yourself?

    • a clock
    • a letter
    • a map

  2. Question 2

    Which helps you plan what to write?

    • Do nothing
    • Talk about it with a friend
    • Sleep

  3. Question 3

    Which would tell how to bake a cake?

    • a poem about a dog
    • information text
    • a funny joke

  4. Question 4

    Which word is always a capital?

    • I
    • and
    • i

  5. Question 5

    A sentence has about how many words?

    • one hundred
    • none
    • five or six

  6. Question 6

    Which has the words in order?

    • I eat. I go to school. I wake up.
    • I wake up. I eat. I go to school.
    • I go to school. I wake up. I eat.

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