How to use this sheet

  • Have the child find every name of a person, place or day first, and check each starts with a capital.
  • Have the child explain each capital with a reason: the start of a sentence, a name, the word I.
  • For titles, have the child decide for each small word whether it is the first word.

Common mistakes

  • Capitalizing common nouns for emphasis, such as "my Dog".
  • Forgetting to capitalize I in the middle of a sentence.
  • Capitalizing seasons, such as Summer. Seasons do not take a capital, but months and days do.

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