1st Grade Capitalization Worksheets: Free Capitalization Practice ... - Free Printable

Let’s go through the worksheet step by step.

The task is: Circle the words that should be capitalized.

We need to remember the basic rules of capitalization:

1. First word of a sentence — but here, all words are standalone, so we ignore this.
2. Proper nouns — names of specific people, places, months, days, holidays, etc.
3. Exclamations or interjections like “Wow!” often start with a capital letter because they’re treated like the start of a sentence.
4. Common nouns (like “monkey”, “flower”, “tea”) do NOT need to be capitalized unless they start a sentence.

Now let’s go word by word:

- arizona → This is a state name → Proper noun → Should be Arizona
- waShington → Looks like it’s trying to say “Washington” (probably D.C. or the state) → Proper noun → Should be Washington
- august → Month name → Proper noun → Should be August
- monkey → Common animal → Not a proper noun → No capital needed
- wow! → Exclamation → Starts a thought → Should be Wow!
- flower → Common noun → No capital
- december → Month → Proper noun → Should be December
- jack → Name of a person → Proper noun → Should be Jack
- sunday → Day of the week → Proper noun → Should be Sunday
- sophia → Name of a person → Proper noun → Should be Sophia
- ice-cream → Common food item → No capital
- school bus → Common vehicle → No capital (unless part of a title, which it’s not here)
- tea → Common drink → No capital
- california → State name → Proper noun → Should be California
- frog → Common animal → No capital

So the words that should be capitalized are:

→ arizona
→ waShington (even though it’s written weirdly, it’s meant to be Washington)
→ august
→ wow!
→ december
→ jack
→ sunday
→ sophia
→ california

Note: “waShington” has a lowercase ‘w’ and uppercase ‘S’ — that’s probably a trick to see if you notice it should be fully capitalized as “Washington”. But since the instruction is to circle words that *should* be capitalized, we still include it.

Final list of words to circle:
- arizona
- waShington
- august
- wow!
- december
- jack
- sunday
- sophia
- california

✔ All checked.

Final Answer:
arizona, waShington, august, wow!, december, jack, sunday, sophia, california