Grammar Worksheet: 15 Rules for Capitalization Notes & Practice | ELA 6-8

• Are your middle school English language arts (ELA) students struggling with capitalization?
• Are you looking for assign-and-go capitalization worksheets?

Check out this resource!! You need these grammar worksheets if you are doing test prep, pre assessing student knowledge, or to guide your capitalization unit! This would be a great study guide as well.

This grammar worksheet (in PDF and Google Doc formats, both highlighted and not highlighted) is six pages of notes and practice for capitalization rules. Capitalization worksheets can be challenging to make fun, but I have found success by making the examples relatable and current. (OJ Simpson should not be a football player reference in your grammar practice!! lol Been there!)

The following capitalization rules are covered in this resource:

1. Capitalize the first word of a sentence.
2. Capitalize the pronoun “I” in any location.
3. Capitalize the first word in a quotation.
4. Capitalize the first word and all titles and nouns in the salutation of a letter and the first word in the complimentary close.
5. Capitalize the names of the days of the week, special days (holidays), months of the year, historic events, and eras.
6. Capitalize the first, last, and all other important words in the titles of written works (documents, books, journals, newspapers, reports) and their contents (chapters, sections, articles), works of art and music, and movies.
7. Capitalize nouns and abbreviations referring to parts of a written work only when the reference is followed by a number.
8. Capitalize words referring to a deity and a specific religion.
9. Capitalize the names of people and words associated with the name (places, diseases, etc.)
10. Capitalize titles in three instances: When immediately preceding a name; after a name in an address of typed signature; used in the place of a person’s name
11. Capitalize the specific names
12. Capitalize words based on nationalities or historical background.
13. Capitalize the name brand but not the generic product’s name.
14. Capitalize the names of specific courses (usually followed by a number) but not those of general areas of study (except languages).
15. Some words that should NOT be capitalized

Each rule has examples, and most rules have practice activities!

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