Capitalization Worksheets

Welcome to our page all about capitalization worksheets! Here, you’ll find a helpful assortment of printable activities that focus on capitalization for parents to use in the classroom or at home for extra practice. First, students will learn how to capitalize individual words, such as: holidays, names, places, days of the week, months of the year, and more. Then, they will move on to applying what they have learned to using capitalization within sentences. For example, students will be asked to re-write the given sentences to include the correct use of capitalization for holidays, names, or places in each sentence. Below, you will also find more advanced capitalization activities and mixed practice worksheets for students looking to further their skills.

Grade
1, 2, 3, 4, K
CCSS Standard
L.2, Language, RF.1, Reading: Foundational Skills
NGLS Standard
L.2, Language

Capitalization Worksheets

Before jumping into using capitalization within sentences, it's important to learn which words are meant to be capitalized. Below, you'll find a series of printable activities focusing on learning capitalization for days of the week, months, holidays, names, addresses and more. Capitalization is important because capital letters give us a sign about the sentence or word we’re reading. Here are some places where students will learn to capitalize letters:

  1. The first word in a sentence. Example: Reggie likes pizza.
  2. Names (first and last). Example: Reggie, Benjamin Franklin
  3. Titles of books, movies, or shows. Example: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  4. Places on the map. Example: Tennessee, United States, Canada
  5. Schools and Companies Example: Village Elementary School, McDonald’s, Walmart
  6. Days, Months Examples: Thursday, January
  7. Holidays Examples: Easter, Passover, Ramadan
  8. Languages and Nationalities Example: English, Spanish, Puerto Rican, America

Capitalization in Sentences Worksheets

The worksheets below are great for introducing students to the use of capitalization within sentences. These activities build upon what students have learned about capitalizing holidays, names, titles, places, "I", and focus on applying what they have learned to sentences.

Mixed Capitalization in Sentences Worksheets

Further your student's understanding of capitalization with these printable writing activities. Each worksheet focuses on fixing capitalization errors and mixed practice for capitalizing letters in names, dates, holidays, places, and more.