Capital Quest

What your child will figure out

• Predict which words in a sentence need capitals before testing the repair.
• Distinguish sentence starts and the pronoun I from proper nouns.
• Explain why names, places, days, months, and titles take capitals.
• Transfer multiword place names, titles before names, and earlier capitalization rules to longer generated questions, dialogue, routes, and mixed-clause sentences.

The levels

1. The first lock

   Predict, repair, observe, and explain the capital at a sentence start.

2. The lone I rune

   Contrast a sentence start with the pronoun I, which stays capital wherever it appears.

3. A hero's name

   Repair a sentence start and a person's name, then explain why the name is special.

4. Two heroes arrive

   Distinguish two people's names from an ordinary people noun in the same sentence.

5. The map lock

   Distinguish a named place from an ordinary place noun.

6. The double-name bridge

   Recognize that every word in a multiword place name needs a capital.

7. The weekday wheel

   Connect day names to the same special-name principle used for people and places.

8. The month moon

   Distinguish a month name from ordinary season and time words.

9. The captain's seal

   Capitalize a title when it comes directly before a person's name.

10. The calendar crossing

    Combine person, place, day, and month rules in one journey sentence.

11. The messenger's report

    Carry name and pronoun-I rules through punctuation and a second clause.

12. The royal invitation

    Transfer every unlocked rule to a title, person, multiword place, day, month, and pronoun I.