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Capitalization
Teach your class the rules of capitalization with this fun, engaging lesson. Children participate in a learning activity, collaborate with peers, and practice their writing as they learn three specific rules: to always capitalize the...
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Proper Nouns
Learners read 10 sentences and underline each word that should have a capital letter. They write the proper nouns correctly. Good, basic practice for the use of proper nouns.
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Capital Letters: Proper Nouns
Elementary schoolers write the names of five friends in a box, capitalizing their names. They think of five places they have been and write them using correct capitalization. Everyone writes the day and month as well as their birthday...
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Capitals Rule
Young learners review the rules of capitalization, then engage in this presentation which has them select the sentence that uses capital letters correctly. Students click on one of two sentences in each slide, and are honored with a "You...
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Capital Letters
In this capitalization interactive workhsheet, students read seven sentences and select the proper capitalization for each sentence.
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Using Capital Letters 2
In this language arts worksheet, students examine a list of 30 mixed common and proper nouns. Students indicate which words should be capitalized and write them out correctly.
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Punctuating Simple Sentences
In this capitalization and punctuation worksheet, learners rewrite ten sentences and correct the errors. This worksheet is from the UK and periods are referred to as "full stops".
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Observing Capitalization Rules
In this capitalization worksheet, students complete three activities that help them follow the rules for capitalization in their writing.
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Using Capital Letters
In this language arts worksheet, students learn the capitalization rules. Students read the information, then complete 8 pages of exercises. Students capitalize names, license plates, post codes (UK) and abbreviations. Students rewrite...
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Capital Letters
In this language arts worksheet, students proofread written work for capitalization errors. Students first read the capitalization rules, then put capital letters where they are needed into the right places in a story.
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Paradise Valley Community College: Capitalization of Organizations
This section of this page gives examples of capitalizing names of organizations, businesses, and institutions. It contains many other capitalization rules as well.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
This tutorial teaches standard rules of capitalization and common errors. It offers a PowerPoint presentation over the rules for capitalizing proper nouns and information on capitalizing abbreviations with examples. This is followed by...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: A Little Help With Capitals
This Purdue University lesson explains capitalization rules by giving simple examples. L.11-12.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Capitalization
A learning module that teaches students about the rules of capitalization in five mini-lessons: Introduction; Capital Ideas: Direct Quotes, Titles, and Lists; Proper but Not Necessarily Stuffy Nouns; Exceptions; and Application Wade...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Common Noun
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a common noun in the context of a sentence.
English Club
English Club: When Do We Use Capital Letters
This EnglishClub resource provides eleven instances in which using capital letters is necessary. Several examples are provided with each of the eleven rules.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
The slideshow lesson focuses on capitalization including why words are capitalized, general rules for capitalization, and rules and examples for capitalizing titles and proper nouns.
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Sophia: Capitalization: Basic Rules
Nine slides introducing the basic rules of capitalization and providing examples of each.
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Sophia: Rules for Capitalization
This video is a lesson on the rules for capitalization. Real Player is required
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Sophia: Capitalization in Quotations
This video lesson focuses on the rules of capitalization as they apply to quotations.
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Sophia: Capitalization in Quotations
This lesson provides a video and a PowerPoint presentation focusing on when and what to capitalize and not capitalize in direct quotations. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Capitalization in Sentences
This video lesson focuses capitalization in sentences including initial letter, proper nouns, interjections, and conversation fragments. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Capitalization in Sentences
This video lesson focuses on the use of capital letters in sentences including the following: after a colon, after a semicolon, titles, and lower case proper nouns at the beginning of sentences (eg. iPod). She also offers a memory trick...