Capital Letters Check

Year 1 EnglishCapital Letters3 pages

About this worksheet

A Year 1 check on capital letters, over two pupil pages and an answer key. Pupils circle every capital in a four-sentence story about Ben, London and a dog called Pip, then count them. Next they fix a missing capital in four short sentences and sort six words, including monday, amir and scotland, into Needs a capital and Does not. The last task asks for one sentence with a friend's name. The key gives the count as 8. It follows England National Curriculum punctuation for Year 1.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œUsing a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun 'I'โ€

Questions 1 and 2 test Ben, London, Friday, Pip, I, Mia and Sunday. The word sort adds Monday, Amir and Scotland.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œBeginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation markโ€

Question 2a needs a capital at the start of the sentence. The answer to question 4 must start with a capital and end with a full stop.

What's inside this worksheet

Circle the Capitals

A four-sentence story that starts Ben went to London on Friday, with every capital already in place. Pupils circle each capital letter and write how many they found.

Missing Capitals

Four sentences, the sun is hot, Sam and i play tag, We saw mia at the shop and It is fun on sunday, each missing one capital. Pupils write the fixed word in a box.

Word Sort

Six words, monday, cat, amir, park, scotland and cup, go into a table headed Needs a capital and Does not. A last line asks for one sentence with a friend's name in it.

Answers

The story with its eight capitals marked, the four fixed words, the sorted table and an example sentence, I play with Leo.

How teachers use it

End of unit check

Give it after a week of capital letter work and mark the count in question 1 first. Eight is correct, and pupils who find fewer have often missed the I in Then I had a bun.

Swap and mark

Let pupils swap sheets after question 2 and check each other's boxes against the key.

Intervention

For pupils who still muddle names and places, say each word in question 3 aloud and ask whether it is someone's name or a place's name before they write it.

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