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Cursive Capitals Formation Chart

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Make sure your pupils get all their curly-cues just right with a step-by-step reference page of uppercase cursive letters. The page breaks down each capital letter into one to four steps. See the materials tab for a matching reference...
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Writing Review

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This presentation provides a series of activities that can be used as morning warm ups throughout the week, or as a writing review. Learners put words in ABC order, learn about alliteration, correct punctuation in a series of sentences,...
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A Fantasy Story: Spooky!

For Students K - 1st Standards
This creepy fantasy story needs an ending! Learners use a spooky voice to read a short story ending at an ellipsis...what was in the dark, dark box? They illustrate what they think could have been in there and write a title for the...
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Vínculo entre la escuela y el hogar: puntuación

For Students 4th - 5th
Native Spanish speakers learning how to use punctuation and capitalization take home this learning exercise to hone skills. The entire learning exercise is written in Spanish (including the directions), and both the student and his...
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Phonics: Letter Recognition, Lettercritter

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This is a fun idea to get your scholars practicing their ABCs! They assemble an alphabet caterpillar, printing lowercase versions below each uppercase letter. They practice writing the lowercase letters using dry-erase markers and say...
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Practice with Letters: Q-R

For Students K - 1st
Get those pencils moving! Learners examine capital letters Q-X, first observing how the magic pencil prints each one. Then, they get a chance to trace a letter, following the arrows. Finally, it's time to try on their own! There is...
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Phonics: Letter Recognition, Clip-A-Letter

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars show what they know about the alphabet. With two circles—one surrounded by capital letters and one with lowercase—pupils use clothespins to match letters, case to case or the opposite. 
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Printing Practice: Letters Y and Z

For Students K - 1st
Catch the tail end of alphabet printing practice with this Y and Z instructional activity. For each, learners examine the correct form, and trace a gray outline. Then, they practice on their own in the space provided. More handwriting...
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Capital Letters: Q-X

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This old fashioned handwriting activity will help your printing pupils master capital letters Q-X. They examine example letters with numbered arrows, then practice by tracing. Finally, students test their new skills by printing these...
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What's Proper?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners practice using capital letters for proper nouns and adjectives. They play a matching game with word cards and correct paragraphs with incorrect capitalization, and edit their work with a partner.  
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Tracing Capital Letters I-P

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Practice capital letters I-P in this printing drill worksheet, which has young writers examine arrows on sample letters to guide their pencils. A shaded letter gives them tracing practice, and then they try a few on their own in the...
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Hula Hoop ABC Relays

For Teachers K
Adding hula hoops to any activity can present a fun challenge. This worksheet explains how to conduct an activity that combines the recognition of capital/lowercase letters and a hula hoop relay. Outside on the playground, each student...
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Dragon Land

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Help writers recognize how word order affects meaning, discover new words, and confirm or check meaning writing. They will explore how punctuation helps a reader understand what is written and the connections between punctuation,...
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Capital Letters

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
When and how to use capital letters is the focus of this language arts presentation. The first slide gives the five most common rules for using capital letters. The rest of the slides give young readers lots of practice. Instant feedback...
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Printing Capitals, A-H

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Practice writing capital letters with this tracing worksheet, which includes capital letters A-H. It includes a sample letter with helpful arrows ordering the steps. Learners can also practice a few on their own. For more advanced...
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Capital Letters: Proper Nouns

For Students 1st - 3rd
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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Capital Letters

For Students 1st - 3rd
Learners trace the capital letters on the page to practice their printing. They trace the entire alphabet five times. Fantastic practice for young writers.
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School-Home Links: Uppercase Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Young writers use a pencil to identify the first letter of each sentence in a brief paragraph, and locate sentences in books at home. This fine worksheet should provide effective practice for letter identification. It could be used in a...
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School-Home Links Uppercase Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Here is a worksheet that invites young readers to explore sentences that begin with capital letters. They locate the first letter in nine sentences with the help of a caregiver. Good, basic practice.
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Punctuation: Making Sense of Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
By fourth grade, most students are able to construct fairly well-thought-out sentences. Make sure your class is on the right track by frequently introducing concepts of proper punctuation. Each slide contains rules and examples...
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Spelling Instant Activity

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders understand the usage of capital letters for mapping skills. In this capitalization lesson, 6th graders correct sentences to insert appropriate capital letters. Students select cities from the sentences and make a word puzzle.
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Beginning Sentence Correction

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this beginning sentence correction worksheet, students determine grammatical mistakes and correct them. In this short answer worksheet, students write six answers.
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Capital Letters

For Students 6th - 8th
In this capital letters learning exercise, students write the capital letters and lowercase letters of the alphabet in the boxes provided and capitalize the first word correctly in three sentences.
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Editing a Paragraph

For Students 7th - 10th
In this paragraph worksheet, students edit and proofread a paragraph. Students correct all punctuation and capital letter errors.