Capital letter practice for Year 1, over three pages. Ten short sentences have mistakes, such as the dog can run fast, can i have a red pen and Mum saw tom on friday. Pupils rewrite each one on the line beneath it. Page 2 has two parts, two sentences about the weekend and a friend's name written with a capital. The key shows every corrected sentence with the fixed letters in bold. It follows England National Curriculum punctuation.
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun 'I'”
Sam, Socks, Tom, London and Dan need capitals, as do Monday, Friday and Sunday. Questions 2, 6, 9 and 10 need a capital I.
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Beginning to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark”
Seven of the ten sentences start with a small letter, and the two weekend sentences need a capital at the start and a full stop at the end.
Ten sentences in lower case with a writing line under each. The mistakes include a missing capital at the start, a small i, and names and days such as sam, monday and friday.
Two sentences about the weekend, beside a picture of a boy kicking a ball for his dog. A reminder asks pupils to check for a capital at the start and a full stop at the end.
Pupils write their own name and a friend's name, each beginning with a capital letter.
All ten sentences corrected, with each new capital in bold. Short notes for My Weekend and Our Names say what to look for.
Proofreading starter
Write one lower-case sentence on the board and ask pupils to name each letter that must change before they start page 1.
Marking together
Read the key with the class. The bold letters show pupils exactly which capitals they missed.
Weekend sentences
Pupils read their weekend sentences to a partner, who checks the capital at the start and the full stop at the end.
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