Printable Capitalizing Titles and Places Worksheets
Capitalizing titles and places worksheets teach elementary students to format book titles, holidays, geographic locations, and dates accurately. These printable exercises provide rewrite drills, passage editing, and full answer keys.
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Capitalize Places
Rewrite place names with capitals
Capitalize Holidays
Rewrite holidays with capital letters
Capitalize Dates
Rewrite weekdays with capital letters
Capitalize Dates
Rewrite months with capital letters
Titles of works
Write sentences with capitalized titles
Titles of works
Write each title with correct capitals
About Capitalizing Titles and Places
What this skill is
Specific geographic locations (cities, states, countries, rivers), holidays, months, days of the week, and book titles require capital letters according to standard English conventions, distinguishing formal proper nouns from general terms.
When children learn it
Capitalizing dates, days of the week, and months begins in 1st grade. Capitalizing holidays, geographic names, and major words in titles is taught in 2nd and 3rd grade (CCSS L.2.2.a, L.3.2.a) and refined in 4th grade.
Teaching Tips
- Look at book covers together on the bookshelf: point out that the first and last words always start with a capital, along with all the big words. Practice on worksheets by having your child underline the specific name of the place or holiday before writing.
Common Mistakes
- Capitalizing small connecting words like "in", "the", or "of" when capitalizing book titles.
- Capitalizing general directions like "drive north" instead of reserving capitals for named regions like "the North".
- Forgetting to capitalize both parts of a two-word city or holiday name (such as "new York" or "memorial Day").