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Capitalizing Names Resources

A student’s name is a powerful thing, even moreso when she knows it must be capitalized! These materials help students recognize and capitalize names. After teaching students to capitalize names, you can have them work on a name puzzle or complete a worksheet that taps their editing skills. For students who need more handwriting practice, visit our materials on capitalizing uppercase letters.

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All About Me: I Like Myself

Break the ice with this social lesson, designed to help you and your class get to know each other. This social studies lesson helps students develop a healthy sense of self, and ties in well with any "All About Me" theme or unit.

Introducing the Sentence

This workbook capitalizes on the basic parts of sentence building for kids, from first word to ending punctuation.

First Grade Writing Skills

This workbook helps first graders flex their handwriting and composition skills.

Practice Capitalization

Give your child practice with his sentence building skills with this printable worksheet that's all about capital letters.

Preschool Writing

This workbook focuses on prewriting skills, featuring activities that help develop fine motor skills and teach simple writing techniques.

Common and Proper Noun Scavenger Hunt

Students will take part in a scavenger hunt as they look around the school for common and proper nouns.

Fix the Letter: Commas and Capitalization

Can your first grader help Lisa proofread her letter by fixing the commas and correcting the capitalization?

Practice Test: Writing Mechanics

Challenge your first grader's command of grammar rules with this printable quiz that asks him to select the sentence that's written incorrectly.

Identifying Common or Proper Nouns

Help your students learn the difference between proper and common nouns with this lesson that has them come up with examples of their own and complete a worksheet to check for comprehension.

Sentences: Start to Finish

This set of worksheets covers the basics of building a sentence, from the capital letter to the dot in a question mark. Colorful pages lead the way!

Yesterday and Today

Use this series to help your child explore the passage of time, from days to years. Kids will get to map their lives on a timeline as they learn about concepts of past, present and future.

Make a Name Puzzle

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity she'll get to make her own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Get into Grammar: Capitalization

Although it may seem trivial, remembering to write the proper letter--whether lower or uppercase--is one of the most important writing skills for first grade.

Valentine Party Blower Messages

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Name Activity Placemat

Color in the letters then write your name in the space reserved. Then turn the worksheet into a placemat that will not be mistaken for anyone's but yours!

Get into Grammar: Capitalizing Proper Nouns

Help your child wrap his head around capitalization and proper nouns with this worksheet that asks him to rewrite each sentence with the correct capitalization.

Capitalization Practice: Kimiko

First graders can gain capitalization practice by fixing the short paragraph. Simply change the appropriate letters to capitals then re-write the paragraph!

Letter to My Future Self

What would you like to be doing 5 years from now? Help your child understand the concept of present versus future with a fun time capsule activity!

Make Days of the Week Flip Flaps

With these days of the week flip flaps, your child has the chance to explore days of the week, track special and routine activities, and practice writing time.

Card Challenges

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

Capitalization Practice: Space Age

Bust out the red pen and encourage your first grader to fix the capitalization issues, and then re-write the space-themed passage.

Learning Capitalization: Book Through It!

This worksheet gives your child practice putting capital letters in the right place.

Correct the Capitals: Ken

Can your first grader correct the capitals in Ken's paragraph? This worksheet helps him edit and practice handwriting.

Writing Book Titles

In this worksheet, your child will work with book titles to learn proper capitalization, grammar, and punctuation.

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