Capital Letters Anchor Chart

Show students when to use capital letters with examples for names, dates, places and sentence beginnings. A matching fill-in chart provides a follow-up recall activity.
Grades
Preschool–Pre-K, Grades 1–2
Pages
2
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Apr 02, 2022

Subject
ELA
Topic
Writing notebook, Capital letters
Resource types
Posters, Anchor Charts
Preparation
Print ready

Product description

From the author

This resource is a set of 2 anchor charts for teaching when to use capital letters. The first chart is complete. The second chart is fill in the blank. These charts would work great on a bulletin board display or inserted into students' interactive reading notebooks.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Apply capitalization to names of people, pets, places, monuments, holidays, days, and months

  • Capitalize the word I and the first word of a sentence

Teaching tips

  • Post the completed chart as a reference while introducing each capitalization rule.

  • Use the fill-in-the-blank version as a recall check once the rules have been introduced.

Skills covered

  • Capitalization rule application — students connect a rule (e.g., names of holidays) to a concrete example (Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving) shown on the chart.

  • Sentence-level capitalization — two example sentences model capitalizing the first word of a sentence.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Capitalization rules

  • Proper nouns

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