Capitalization Task Cards

When should a word be capitalized?

• Beginning of Sentence
• Important Words in a Title
• Proper Nouns
• All of these 

Bob and i went to the store to get some orange juice.

• Change i to I
• Change orange to Orange
• Change Bob to bob
• Change juice to Juice

Which is capitalized correctly?

• Dr. Johnson

• mayor Tom

• Mrs. monte

• william Sherman

Phil is staying at uncle Raymond's house for the holidays.

• Change staying to Staying
• Change uncle to Uncle
• Change house to House
• Change holidays to Holidays

mrs. morris likes to go to starbucks on mondays.

• Mrs. Morris likes to go to Starbucks on Mondays.

• mrs. Morris likes to go to Starbucks on mondays.

• mrs. morris likes to go to starbucks on Mondays.

• Mrs. morris likes to go to Starbucks on mondays.

What title below uses correct capitalization?

• Harry potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
• The lion King
• The Secret Life of Pets
• find nemo 

How many capital letters should be in this sentence:

jerry and max went to new york last july.

• 3

• 5

• 4

• 2

How many capital letters should be in this sentence:

los angeles, new york and chicago are the three largest american cities.

• 2

• 4

• 5

• 6

The first word of every sentence begins with a capital letter.

• True

• False

Names of persons are capitalized.

• True

• False