Split the class up into two teams. Each team will send one player to the front of the room at a time. Show both players a paragraph with one to five capitalization errors for five seconds, then hide it. Both players will wager one to five points that they will correct the most errors, which they will do on note-cards with the paragraphs written on them for two minutes. If both players get the same number correct, both get their wagers; otherwise, the winning player's team gets his wager, and the other team loses it. The team with the most points when everyone has played is the winner.
When books were written by hand, the first capital letter in a section was large and elaborately decorated. Have students write a five-sentence story on a topic of your choosing in the third person. Aside from the sentence beginners, students should include five other capitals, each illustrating a different rule, such as place names or professional titles. Using markers, have students make their capitals larger and decorate them in the old manuscript style.
Split student into groups of four. Each group will receive a 100-word text in all lower-case letters and small slips of paper with missing capitals written on them. Students will deal out the slips so each player has the same number. First, one member of each group will read the page out loud, then students will take turns trying to place their capitals over the incorrect capitals. Each turn will be 15 seconds long, measured with a stopwatch, and the student with the most correctly-placed slips after 15 minutes is the winner.
Similar to the first game, split the class up into teams of two and have each send up one player at a time. On the overhead, show players a sentence with one capitalization error. Both players will have bells that they will ring if they think they can identify the capitalization error and the rule being broken. Players will get one point for correctly answering each part of the answer. Because the game should be more faced pace, let each student go three times before declaring the winner.