Capital Letters and Full Stops Worksheet (Free PDF)

What’s in the PDF

• Page 1 (Level 1, easier): a rule box, five sentences where children circle the letters that should be capitals, and four sentences that need a full stop.
• Page 2 (Level 2, harder): rewrite three sentences correctly on handwriting lines, then tick the correctly written sentence in three pairs.
• Page 3: an answer key for both levels.

Read the instructions aloud for early readers. Children can point or say the answer before they write it.

What are capital letters and full stops?

A capital letter shows where a sentence begins, and a full stop (called a period in American English) shows where it ends. Names of people and places, and the word I, always have a capital letter, wherever they are in a sentence.

Examples

• The sun is hot.
• My name is Ben.
• I like to read.
• We went to the park.
• Sam and I can swim.

How to teach it

Read a sentence aloud and stop at the full stop with a little pause. Show that the next sentence starts with a capital. When your child writes, ask them to check two things only: is there a capital at the start, and a full stop at the end? A small tick for each builds the habit.

Common mix-ups

Children often add capitals in the middle of words or forget the word I. Some put a full stop at the end of every line rather than every sentence. Reading their writing aloud helps them hear where sentences really end.

Game: Sentence detective

Write three short sentences with mistakes: no capitals, no full stops, a lowercase name. Your child is the detective and circles every mistake with a coloured pencil.

Questions to ask

• Where does this sentence start?
• What do we put at the end?
• Which words always need a capital?

Practise next

Try nouns, pronouns, verbs. Practise neat capitals with alphabet tracing A to Z.