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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Capitalization at the Beginning of a Sentence

For Students K - 1st Standards
This page explains the beginning letter of each sentence is always capitalized, even in direct quotes in the middle of sentences. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook:capitalization:call Letters of Radio and Television Stations

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains that call letters for radio and television stations are always in all capital letters and provides examples.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Capitalization: Periods and Events (Not Century Numbers)

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains that historical periods and events are capitalized as proper nouns, but centuries are not. Examples are provided.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Grade Lit and Comp: Grammar Ii and Technical Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a unit on grammar and technical writing; it includes capitalization and punctuation. It provides links to several sites having to do with punctuation and capitalization rules.
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Quia

Quia: Capitalization Games

For Students 9th - 10th
"These games cover the general rules of capitalization of proper nouns and adjectives." Students find matching squares. Answers and new games are available.
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Other

Pen and Page: Capitalization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a clear and simple explanation of when to use capital letters. Following the explanations, students can verify their understanding by taking an interactive quiz.
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English Plus+

Special Cases for Capitals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides explanation and examples of special rules for capitalization.
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English Plus+

Capitalizing Proper Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Rules and examples for proper capitalization of adjectives are given.
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Other

Pvcc: Faq's: When Should I Capitalize?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a list of rules for capitalization. Great links to information on each rule.
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English Club

English Club: When Do We Use Capital Letters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub resource provides eleven instances in which using capital letters is necessary. Several examples are provided with each of the eleven rules.
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TES Global

Tes: When Do We Use Capital Letters? Poster?

For Students 2nd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Capitalization rules are provided on this visually-appealing poster. Students will find reminders about capitalizing the pronoun I, beginnings of sentences, names, abbreviations, and abbreviations.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Ten Minute Grammar Lessons Capitalization

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These lessons are intended to be used by English Language Arts teachers in grades 6-8 for a quick, whole-class review of the rules of capitalization.
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Expansion Learning

Expansion Learning: Capitalization: Days and Months

For Students 3rd
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of capitalizing days and months.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Mla Works Cited Page: Basic Format

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the rules for writing an MLA Works Cited page and provides examples of each type of entry.
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English Worksheets Land

English Worksheets Land: Cap. Holidays, Products, Geographic Names Worksheets

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Practice capitalization rules with five free downloadable worksheets.
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Quia

Quia: Metaphor Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
This capitalization quiz reinforces the general rules for capitalizing proper nouns and adjectives.
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Other

Grammar Monster: What Are Common Nouns? (With Examples)

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
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.
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English Plus+

Capitals in Titles of Things

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides information about capitals in titles of things. Examples are given.
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English Plus+

Capitalizing in Letters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page gives information and examples about capital letters in letters.
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English Plus+

Capitalizing Personal Titles

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about capitalizing proper titles. Some examples are given.
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Other

Pvcc: Faq's: When Not to Capitalize

For Students 9th - 10th
This page contains a list of words that are frequently capitalized but should never be capitalized! Examples are included.
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Harvard University

Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)

Roble: Ortografia

For Students 9th - 10th
You will have a chance to practice your spelling with these drills and exercises. They include capitalization, accents, punctuation and many other fundamentals rules of spelling.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Common Noun

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a common noun in the context of a sentence.

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