Printable Capitalizing Sentences and Names Worksheets
Printable capitalizing sentences and names worksheets for kindergarten through 2nd grade, with an answer key on every sheet. The sets below cover 2 different skills, so you can start where your child actually is. Available as fill in the blank and sorting activities.
Targeted Practice by Skill
About Capitalizing Sentences and Names
What this skill is
Capitalizing sentences and names covers applying uppercase letters at the start of every sentence, for proper nouns identifying specific people or animals (like Sarah or Spot), and for the standalone pronoun I. Mastering initial capitalization and proper name conventions establishes standard sentence boundaries, written clarity, graphic accuracy, syntactic awareness, sentence structure conventions, and formal writing mechanics across elementary writing tasks, daily journal entries, spelling tests, and reading exercises.
When children learn it
Initial sentence capitalization and personal name capitalization are introduced in kindergarten and 1st grade. In 2nd grade and 3rd grade, students refine capital I rules and capitalize specific names of pets, historical figures, and family titles across daily writing journals, sentence mechanics drills, editing tasks, and language arts lessons.
Common Mistakes
- Writing lowercase 'i' when referring to oneself in sentences (writing 'when i went home' instead of 'when I went home').
- Forgetting to capitalize the first letter of a sentence after an end punctuation mark during extended paragraph writing.
- Capitalizing common nouns like 'boy' or 'dog' simply because they seem important within a sentence.