Capitalization Rules Worksheets
Capital letters mark the start of a sentence and the name of a particular person, place or thing. These worksheets work through the rule set one class of word at a time, then mix them in passages where several apply at once.
- Grades
- Kindergarten – Grade 8
- Worksheets
- 10
- Topics
- 7
Topics in capitalization rules
- Sentence Beginnings and the Pronoun I — Kindergarten to Grade 3
Capitalising the first word of every sentence and the pronoun I wherever it appears.
- Names and Proper Nouns — Grade 1 to Grade 5
Capitalising the names of particular people, pets and things, and leaving common nouns lowercase.
- Days, Months and Holidays — Grade 1 to Grade 5
Capitalising days, months and holidays while leaving the seasons lowercase.
- Places and Geographic Names — Grade 2 to Grade 6
Capitalising cities, states, countries, streets and landmarks, and the directions that are and are not capitalised.
- Titles of Works and People — Grade 3 to Grade 8
Which words in a title take a capital, and capitalising a person's title when it sits before their name.
- Capitals in Quotations — Grade 4 to Grade 8
Capitalising the first word of a direct quotation, including when a speech tag interrupts it.
- Mixed Capitalization Review — Grade 3 to Grade 8
Correcting passages where several capitalisation rules apply at once, and no capital is added that should not be.
Any topic on this list can appear for any grade it covers.
Kindergarten
All kindergarten worksheets →Grade 1
All grade 1 worksheets →Grade 2
All grade 2 worksheets →Grade 3
All grade 3 worksheets →Proper Nouns: Names of People, Pets, and Things — Grade 3
Grade 3 students practice identifying and correcting proper noun capitalization for names of people, pets, and things across three exercise types.
Mixed Capitalization Review Worksheet — Grade 3
Practice applying five capitalization rules at once in this Grade 3 worksheet: sentence beginnings, proper nouns, days, months, places, and the pronoun I.
Days, Months, and Holidays Capitalization — Grade 3
Grade 3 students identify, complete, and correct sentences to practice capitalizing days, months, and holidays while keeping seasons lowercase.
Grade 4
All grade 4 worksheets →Days, Months, and Holidays Capitalization — Grade 4
Grade 4 practice: identify, correct, and write sentences using the capitalization rule for days, months, and holidays while keeping seasons lowercase.
Capitals in Quotations Worksheet — Grade 4
Grade 4 students practice capitalizing the first word of direct quotations and learn how capitalization changes when a speech tag interrupts a quote.
Grade 5
All grade 5 worksheets →Grade 7
All grade 7 worksheets →What is published under capitalization rules
Ten capitalization rules worksheets are published, covering seven of the seven topics in this skill and written for kindergarten, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5 and grade 7. Between them they come to 131 questions and 52 ruled lines.
Capitalization Rules spans kindergarten to grade 8 across its topic list, which is wider than most single skills — sentence beginnings and the pronoun i; names and proper nouns; days, months and holidays sit at different ends of it. A topic's grade range is where a dedicated sheet is still worth printing, not where the idea is first mentioned.
How a capitalization rules sheet works
Six question types appear across these sheets — 10 × identify, 7 × fill in the blank, 7 × rewrite, 4 × write your own, 2 × sort and 2 × multiple choice — and no single sheet uses all of them. Each moves from spotting the rule to applying it, so a student who has memorised the wording of the rule and nothing else runs out of road before the last part.
30 rule statements are printed across the set, in a box above the questions rather than assumed from a lesson last week. Altogether a student reads about 1898 words to work through every capitalization rules sheet here; the longest single one is Capitalizing Titles of Works and People at 18 questions, against a target of 18 for its grade.
These sit in the recognition, application and analysis bands. Every sheet prints its answer key on a separate page so it can be handed out without one, in black and white, with no account and no watermark.