Curated OER
PICTURE READING - PARAGRAPH WRITING
Students investigate the elements found in a media image. The image is used to compose a descriptive paragraph. They exchange papers to discuss the writing and make changes using constructive criticism. Students also make connections...
Curated OER
Creative Story Writing
Learners recognize predictable patterns in literature. They use the selected pattern to create their own writing using the same type of literary pattern. The new writing is proofread by other students and the editing is done until the...
Curated OER
United States Holidays and Customs
Students identify and describe the importance of U.S. holidays and social customs. In groups, Students write a detailed description of a U.S. holiday and how it is celebrated. Descriptions are presented to the class. This lesson is...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns
This video lesson is designed to help students identify proper nouns and properly capitalize them. Real Player is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns
This slideshow defines proper nouns, explains why they are capitalized, and offers the rules for doing so.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Proper Nouns (Days and Months)
This is better for a "small group" lesson plan. Students will demonstrate understanding of proper nouns and know that days of the week and months of the year are always capitalized.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Capitalizing Proper Nouns
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of capitalizing proper nouns. Immediate feedback is given.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Capitalization: Proper vs. Common Nouns and Adjectives
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.
Quia
Quia: Capitalization Flash Cards
This site contains a flash card game with general rules for capitalization of proper nouns and adjectives. Students can choose their difficulty level.
English Plus+
Proper Nouns: Capitalization
Rules and examples of proper noun capitalization are given.
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...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Capitalization: Periods and Events (Not Century Numbers)
This page explains that historical periods and events are capitalized as proper nouns, but centuries are not. Examples are provided.
Other
Quill: Capitalize Geographic Names
A ten question capitalization quiz where students have to type the sentence with the proper nouns correctly capitalized.
Quia
Quia: Metaphor Quiz
This capitalization quiz reinforces the general rules for capitalizing proper nouns and adjectives.
Quia
Quia: Capitalization Concentration Game
This game is designed for practice in capitalization of proper nouns and adjectives. Skill level can be changed, new games started and answers given.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Possessives and Irregular Plurals
This quiz asks students to type in the correct spelling of the plural or possessive as directed and to capitalize any proper nouns. Links are provided to a quiz list, tutorials for plurals and possessives, and the "Guide to Grammar and...
Other
Review Game Zone: Bouncing Balls
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
This capitalization tutorial uses a variey of media. It begins with the reasons for capitalization and examples set to music in a video and a battle between lower and upper case letters; these are followed by a PDF of the rules for...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Basics of Capitalization
This lesson focuses on capitalization by providing a PDF of the 10 fundamental rules of capitalization and common errors. It also provides two short videos: "Capitalizing Proper Nouns" and "Capitalizing Headings and Titles." Real Player...
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.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Capitalization
This page reminds the writer to follow capitalization rules including for beginning of sentences, proper nouns, and titles of people and works.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Sentences
This video lesson focuses capitalization in sentences including initial letter, proper nouns, interjections, and conversation fragments. Real Player is required.
English Plus+
Capitalizing Proper Adjectives
Rules and examples for proper capitalization of adjectives are given.