Grades 2–3
Capitalize Places
Eight sentences with cities, states, countries, rivers, lakes, streets and parks to capitalize.
Writing worksheet · Capitalization and punctuation
Capitalize Holidays and Special Days
Eight sentences about holidays from Earth Day to Lunar New Year to rewrite with the right capital letters.
- Grade level
- Grades 2–3
- Time
- About 20 minutes
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Capitalization, End punctuation, Commas and apostrophes, Editing for conventions
What kids do
“The names of holidays start with capital letters. Rewrite each sentence with the holiday capitalized.”
Printed on the sheet:
- Small words like of stay small: the Fourth of July. The word birthday is not a holiday name.
- 1. We eat turkey on thanksgiving.
- 2. My birthday is on valentine’s day.
- 3. We watch fireworks on the fourth of july.
- 4. Grandma lights candles for hanukkah.
- 5. There is no school on labor day.
- 6. We plant a tree on earth day.
- 7. Kids dress up for halloween.
Teacher tip
Have kids name a holiday their family celebrates and write it with capitals as a warm-up.
How to use it
- Show one mistake-filled sentence on the board and fix it together first.
- Have kids read each sentence aloud to hear where the pauses and stops go.
- Read the directions aloud so the sheet is about writing, not decoding the directions.
Watch for
Capitals sprinkled in the middle of words. Review when a capital is needed.
Talk about it
- Which mistake was the hardest to spot?
- What did you change when you reread your work?
Take it further
Start the day with one fix-it sentence on the board all week.
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