Learn how to distinguish proper nouns and adjectives from common ones so you will be able to capitalize them correctly. This tutorial gives several examples and detailed explanations. A brief quiz will check your understanding.

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.

This video lesson is designed to help students identify proper nouns and properly capitalize them. Real Player is required.

This is better for a "small group" lesson. Students will demonstrate understanding of proper nouns and know that days of the week and months of the year are always capitalized.

This game is designed for practice in capitalization of proper nouns and adjectives. Skill level can be changed, new games started and answers given.

This slideshow defines proper nouns, explains why they are capitalized, and offers the rules for doing so.

This page explains that historical periods and events are capitalized as proper nouns, but centuries are not. Examples are provided.

Rules and examples of proper noun capitalization are given.

This capitalization quiz reinforces the general rules for capitalizing proper nouns and adjectives.

Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of capitalizing proper nouns. Immediate feedback is given.

Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.

A nice online quiz on polyatomic ions. The "joke" answers are a bit distracting, but the page is useful.

Rules and examples for proper capitalization of adjectives are given.

This Purdue University lesson explains capitalization rules by giving simple examples. L.11-12.2 Cap/Punc/Spell

Tutorial site that surveys the proper usage of adjectives and nouns that act like adjectives. Includes examples and an exercise.

In this activity provided by SMART, students will identify where a capital letter is required in a sentence regarding names.

"These games cover the general rules of capitalization of proper nouns and adjectives." Students find matching squares. Answers and new games are available.

Play three multi-level interactive games where the player moves Rusty Rat back and forth trying to catch common nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs in a basket. Be sure to catch the correct part of speech because too many...

This is a 20-question exercise/assessment about the days of the week. Students select answers to questions such as the day after Tuesday or the first day of the work week.

Students will identify where a capital letter is required in a sentence that uses days of the week in this SMART whiteboard activity.

Students will identify where a capital letter is required in a sentence relating to months in this whiteboard lesson activity provided by SMART.

In this instructional activity, students will play with words as they use alliteration. Students will press buttons to generate adjectives, verbs, names, and nouns that begin with the letter "J" in them. Students will continue to...

This site from The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation contains seven rules for correctly using the hyphen, along with examples for each of the rules.