Students write their own story using as much descriptive language as they can. They peer edit each other's stories and create illustrations to accompany their writings. They place their story in a booklet and give it to a needy recepient.

Students write postcards to the troops in Iraq. After listening to letters written by troops in Iraq, students discuss ways the troops are helping America and how they should show their support. Students use a postcard template and...

In these capitalization worksheets, students review the capitalization rules and then complete three pages of exercises that help them understand capitalization.

Support third graders with developing their language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard written as an I can statement, children are given clear learning goals to work toward throughout the year.

Fifth graders examine the power of voice in writing by completing a story using words following a particular voice. They take simple nursery rhymes, then attempt to put their own voice to a revised version. An interesting instructional...

As part of a grammar lesson, use these sentences to identify parts of speech. There are no directions, but parts of speech are available. The resource contains ten sentences in all.

In this capitalization activity, students complete three activities that help them follow the rules for capitalization in their writing.

Third graders are given an opportunity to create a visual to accompany their presentations of their persuasive essays. They may use the computer or other media as resources.

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 site contains a flash card game with general rules for capitalization of proper nouns and adjectives. Students can choose their difficulty level.

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.

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.

A ten question capitalization quiz where students have to type the sentence with the proper nouns correctly capitalized.