Handout
Syracuse City School District

Capitalization and Punctuation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How many of the pupils in your language arts class can differentiate between a colon and a semicolon? Clarify common conventions, including end punctuation, proper capitalization, and sentence structure, with a series of helpful grammar...
Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Hank Aaron. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - New Jersey "The Garden State"

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the state of New Jersey. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Jesse Owens

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Jesse Owens. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Michael Jordan

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Michael Jordan. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Surprise!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Surprise! is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Cover an array of topics such as where we live, different times of day, shapes, the city and the country, what we do for fun, jobs, and games, all while practicing how...
Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Basketball's Beginnings

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about basketball's beginnings. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Yankee Stadium

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Yankee Stadium. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Worksheet
Study Ladder

Halloween Activities: Grades K-2nd

For Students K - 2nd
If your class is looking for word problems, reading excerpts, grammar games, and fun trivia in their trick-or-treat bags, they'll find it all and more with a Halloween-themed set of worksheets! Three pages of holiday exercises are a...
Activity
Education World

Every-Day Edit: Fastest Sport in the World

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this proof reading instructional activity, students read a paragraph about Jai Alai, Arguably "The Fastest Sport in the World." Students locate and correct 10 errors in the paragraph.
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.
Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Zara's Capital Letter Game: Game 1

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Animated learning game where students choose the letter that needs to be capitalized in order to complete Zara's dream picture.
Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Zara's Capital Letter Game 1

For Students K - 1st Standards
This reading game focuses on beginning capital letters. Young readers drag a looking glass to where a capital letter needs to be, and the letter becomes capitalized. Then they drag a puzzle piece to Zara's dream cloud. The game continues...
Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Interactive Reading Games: Capital Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Here are two interactive games that young students can play to help them review when to use capital letters. Work on capitals at the beginning of sentences before moving on the more advanced games. Teachers are asked to register to use...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Capitalization: Rags to Riches

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This is a capitalization and punctuation game for early readers. Students win gold stars for selecting the correct answers. The game is available in Java or HTML versions.
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.