Curated OER
Let's Edit!
Students in fourth grade pair up with students in second grade to edit writing convension.
Curated OER
Sentence Scramble
In this grammar instructional activity, students use cards with words on them to arrange correctly to make complete sentences. Students do this in teams and are timed to get points.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Proper Noun
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a proper noun in the context of a sentence.
English Plus+
Proper Nouns: Capitalization
Rules and examples of proper noun capitalization are given.
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: 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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Capitalization
In this lesson, you will learn about the conventions of capitalization that are approved by your English teacher. This lesson will help remind you to separate texting, where capitalization is optional, from academic writing, which is...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Capitalization (English Ii Writing)
In this lesson, students will learn that the language of casual exchanges on mobile devices is not acceptable in formal writing. They also develop some case sensitivity, the ability to use capital letters appropriately as you proofread...
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.
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: 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...
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.
Quia
Quia: Capitalization of Proper Nouns and Adjectives
A nice online quiz on polyatomic ions. The "joke" answers are a bit distracting, but the page is useful.
Quia
Quia: Capitalization Games
"These games cover the general rules of capitalization of proper nouns and adjectives." Students find matching squares. Answers and new games are available.
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...
Other
Grammar Monster: What Are Common Nouns? (With Examples)
Get a better understanding of nouns with definitions and examples of common nouns, examples of common and proper nouns, noun capitalization rules, common noun categories, and a video [5:21] on common and proper nouns.