This slideshow focuses on the rules for capitalizing proper nouns. It defines proper nouns and lists rules for capitalizing family relationships, names, titles, derivatives of proper nouns, months, holidays, countries, and languages.

This video lesson is designed to help students identify proper nouns and properly capitalize them. Real Player is required.

Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a proper noun in the context of a sentence.

This slideshow defines proper nouns, explains why they are capitalized, and offers the rules for doing so.

This is better for a "small group" lesson. Students will demonstrate understanding of proper nouns and know that days of the week and months of the year are always capitalized.

The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.

Learn how to distinguish proper nouns and adjectives from common ones so you will be able to capitalize them correctly. This tutorial gives several examples and detailed explanations. A brief quiz will check your understanding.

Students will distinguish between common and proper nouns within this SMART whiteboard lesson by moving the noun to the correct target.

Rules and examples of proper noun capitalization are given.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines proper nouns and includes a short video about proper nouns.

A six-part learning module with links to videos, images, and websites on common and proper nouns.

This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...

Overview of nouns and rules for use. Contains information on forming plurals, count and noncount, pronouns, numerals as nouns, and gender. Exercises interspersed in material.

A ten-question quiz where students are asked to choose a common noun for each proper noun provided and to choose a proper noun for each common noun provided. Immediate feedback is provided for each answer and a percentage score is...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the difference between common and proper nouns.

Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of capitalizing proper nouns. Immediate feedback is given.

This quiz asks students to type in the correct spelling of the plural or possessive as directed and to capitalize any proper nouns. Links are provided to a quiz list, tutorials for plurals and possessives, and the "Guide to Grammar and...

This page explains that historical periods and events are capitalized as proper nouns, but centuries are not. Examples are provided.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on proper nouns and contains Daily Oral Language activities as well as Activote questions.

Choose the common and proper nouns in each sentence in this seven-question quiz.

An exercise in identifying nouns by clicking on those appearing in a paragraph. Answers explained and link to more information provided. Browser must be enabled to JavaScript. Netscape browser recommended.

This video lesson focuses on identifying what nouns are and the two types: common and proper. Real Player is required.

Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a common noun in the context of a sentence.

This is a lesson in nouns including defining nouns, common, proper, concrete, abstract, compound, and collective nouns. It defines each type, shows its use in a sentence, and provides examples.