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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Capitalization Flash Cards

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This site contains a flash card game with general rules for capitalization of proper nouns and adjectives. Students can choose their difficulty level.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Capitalization Concentration Game

For Students 9th - 10th
This game is designed for practice in capitalization of proper nouns and adjectives. Skill level can be changed, new games started and answers given.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Capitalization: Periods and Events (Not Century Numbers)

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains that historical periods and events are capitalized as proper nouns, but centuries are not. Examples are provided.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on the rules for capitalizing proper nouns. It defines proper nouns and lists rules for capitalizing family relationships, names, titles, derivatives of proper nouns, months, holidays, countries, and languages.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow defines proper nouns, explains why they are capitalized, and offers the rules for doing so.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson is designed to help students identify proper nouns and properly capitalize them. Real Player is required.
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Unit Plan
Get It Write

Get It Write: Capitalization: Proper vs. Common Nouns and Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to distinguish proper nouns and adjectives from common ones so you will be able to capitalize them correctly. This tutorial gives several examples and detailed explanations. A brief quiz will check your understanding.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Proper Nouns (Days and Months)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
This is better for a "small group" lesson. Students will demonstrate understanding of proper nouns and know that days of the week and months of the year are always capitalized.
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Handout
English Plus+

Capitalizing Proper Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Rules and examples for proper capitalization of adjectives are given.
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Handout
English Plus+

Proper Nouns: Capitalization

For Students 9th - 10th
Rules and examples of proper noun capitalization are given.
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English Zone

English Zone: The Calendar: Days of the Week

For Students 1st - 3rd
This is a 20-question exercise/assessment about the days of the week. Students select answers to questions such as the day after Tuesday or the first day of the work week.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Metaphor Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
This capitalization quiz reinforces the general rules for capitalizing proper nouns and adjectives.
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Interactive
Other

Review Game Zone: Bouncing Balls

For Students 3rd
In this game, students choose the sentence in the set that correctly capitalizes each proper noun. When the students answer the problem correctly, they get to play a ball blast game.
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Other

Quill: Capitalize Geographic Names

For Students 2nd Standards
A ten question capitalization quiz where students have to type the sentence with the proper nouns correctly capitalized.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Capital Letters Days of the Week

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will identify where a capital letter is required in a sentence that uses days of the week in this SMART whiteboard activity.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Capital Letters Months

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will identify where a capital letter is required in a sentence relating to months in this whiteboard lesson activity provided by SMART.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Capital Letters Names

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity provided by SMART, students will identify where a capital letter is required in a sentence regarding names.
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Activity
Expansion Learning

Expansion Learning: Capitalizing Proper Nouns

For Students 3rd Standards
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of capitalizing proper nouns. Immediate feedback is given.