Formatting Titles Worksheet
A Grade 1 ELA worksheet focusing on proper capitalization and punctuation for book and story titles.
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Formatting Titles
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions. Remember to capitalize the first word and all important words in a title. Use quotation marks for short stories and poems, and underline or italicize for books.
Titles help us know what a story or book is about! When we write a title, we need to make sure it looks just right. We always start the first word of a title with a big letter. We also make big letters for all the important words. Small words like 'a', 'an', 'the', 'and', 'but', 'or', 'for', 'nor', 'on', 'at', 'to', 'from', 'by', 'up', 'with' usually stay small unless they are the very first word. For books, we can underline the title or make it slanted (italic). For short stories or poems, we put special little marks called quotation marks around the title, like this: "My Fun Day".
1. Which title for a book is formatted correctly?
The little red hen
The Little Red Hen
the Little Red hen
the little red hen
2. Which title for a short story is formatted correctly?
My Pet Cat
"My Pet Cat"
my pet cat
My pet cat
3. The first word in a title always starts with a letter.
4. We use marks around the title of a short story.
5. For a book title, you can the title or make it slanted.
6. Write the title of your favorite book, making sure to format it correctly.
7. Write a title for a short story about a talking dog. Make sure to format it correctly.
8. All words in a title should start with a big letter.
True
False
9. We use quotation marks for book titles.
True
False