Kindergarten · Writing · week 19

A sentence starts big and ends with a dot

Understand and apply the two basic sentence rules: start with a capital letter, end with a period.

Every sentence follows two simple rules. It starts with a capital letter. It ends with a dot, called a period.

The capital letter is like a sentence saying "here I am, starting now." The period is like a stop sign at the end.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Point out the capital letter and the period every time you read together this week, in books and in your child's own writing.
  • Use a simple chant if it helps: big at the start, dot at the end.
  • Check your child's written sentences for both rules every single time, gently, until it becomes automatic.
  • Do not introduce other punctuation yet. Just these two rules, practiced until solid.
Talk about it:
  • What are the two rules every sentence follows?
  • What is another name for the dot at the end of a sentence?
  • Can you find a sentence in a book and point to its capital letter and its period?

Mastery looks like: They start every sentence with a capital letter and end it with a period, consistently, without a reminder.

Common stumbles: Forgetting the period at the end; starting mid-sentence words with capitals by mistake; adding a capital but forgetting the period, or the reverse.

See it visually

Interactive, spoken-aloud tools that show this idea in motion.

Sentence BuilderDrag word tiles into a real sentence, with a capital and end mark.try →
Homework for this lessonType it, write it with a stylus, or print it for pencil & paper.open →
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