A Smarter Balanced (CAASPP / SBAC) 3rd grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 24 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
Using Capitalize It Activity, students sort the topic cards into Do Capitalize and Don't Capitalize categories.
This proofreading capitalization and punctuation activity gives 2nd to 5th grade students 16 self-checking detective cards for fixing sentences. A practice page and answer key are included.
A NJSLA-A 3rd grade ELA practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 19 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
This capital letters examples worksheet has 3rd grade students sort proper nouns into days, months, places, and holidays, then fix capitals in sentences. An answer key is included for easy checking.
Using Upwords Capitalizing Words Activity, students practice capitalizing days of the week, months of year, and names
This capital letters writing worksheet helps 3rd grade students fix states, titles, holidays, businesses and street names, label each kind, and use them in their own sentences. An answer key is included for easy checking.
This When do you Capitalize? Worksheet has 3rd grade students sort places and holidays and fix proper nouns in sentences, with an answer key to check the capital letters.
This Scotty's Castle Capital Letters Worksheet gives 3rd graders five sentences to correct and three to rewrite, covering states, people, months and days. Answer key included for quick, no-prep grammar practice.
Using L.3.2 Third Grade Common Core Lesson, students show correct punctuation, capitalization, and spelling to clearly convey their message.
Using this Alphabet Uppercase Letters Clip Art is a perfect addition to any bulletin board, flyer, or other printable that you use in your classroom.
Big letters for big words
By 3rd grade, kids already capitalize the first word of a sentence and the word "I." Now they tackle the trickier rules. They capitalize important words in titles, like Charlotte's Web, along with holidays, product names, geographic names such as the Rocky Mountains, and people's titles like Dr. Lee. They also learn when not to capitalize, like seasons and words such as "mom" when it's not used as a name. The click comes when they catch their own mistakes while proofreading.
Third graders master capitalization by finding and fixing it in real writing. Here's how.
Write a short paragraph full of capitalization mistakes and fix it out loud with the class. Say each rule as you go: "Thanksgiving is a holiday, so it gets a capital." Then partners fix a new paragraph together.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withProofreading Capitalization and Punctuation ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Make a chart with columns like names, places, holidays and titles. Kids write examples on sticky notes and add them to the right column. The chart becomes a reference they use all year.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withWhen do you Capitalize? WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Start each writing block with one sentence to correct. Mix in rules from earlier weeks so kids keep practicing them. Five minutes a day turns rules into habits.
Why it works: spreading practice out over days is one of the two most effective study methods in a major research review (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withCapital Letters Writing WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Turn editing into a game, and kids actually want to hunt for mistakes.
ActivitiesKids race to find and fix words that should start with a capital letter.
Open Capitalize It Activity →
WorksheetsKids explore a castle story and fix every capital letter mistake along the way.
Open Scotty's Castle Capital Letters Worksheet →
ActivitiesA board game twist where kids score by building words with correct capitals.
Open Upwords Capitalizing Words Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Smarter Balanced (CAASPP / SBAC) 3rd Grade ELA Practice Test Workbook, Capitalize It Activity and Proofreading Capitalization and Punctuation Activity.
Third graders capitalize the first word of a sentence, names, places, holidays, product names, geographic names and important words in titles. They also learn when not to capitalize.
No. Spring, summer, fall and winter are not capitalized unless they start a sentence or are part of a name, like the Winter Olympics.
Capitalize Mom or Dad when you use it as a name, like "Can Mom come?" Don't capitalize it after words like my or your, as in "my mom."
Have them proofread a short piece of their own writing every day with a checklist. Finding their own mistakes builds the habit faster than worksheets alone.
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