Formatting Titles Worksheet
A Grade 2 ELA worksheet focusing on the correct capitalization and punctuation of book, movie, and song titles.
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Formatting Titles
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Read the instructions for each section carefully. Remember to capitalize the first letter of important words in titles and use quotation marks for short works like songs and poems, or italics (underline) for longer works like books and movies.
What are Titles?
Every book, movie, and song has a special name called a title. A title helps us know what the story, show, or music is about. When we write titles, we need to follow some rules. We always capitalize the first letter of the first word and the last word. We also capitalize all the important words in the middle. Small words like 'a', 'an', 'the', 'and', 'but', 'or', 'for', 'nor', 'on', 'at', 'to', 'from', 'by', 'up', 'with', 'in', 'of' are usually not capitalized unless they are the first or last word. For a book or movie, we draw a line under the title (underline it) or make it slanted (italics). For a song or a poem, we put quotation marks around its title.
1. Which words in a title should ALWAYS be capitalized?
Only the first word
All words
The first and last words, and important words in between
Small words like 'a' and 'the'
2. How do we show the title of a song?
Underline it
Put quotation marks around it
Make all letters capital
Do nothing special
Rewrite each title correctly, remembering to capitalize important words.
3. the cat in the hat
4. charlie and the chocolate factory
5. beauty and the beast
6. Write the title of your favorite book and make sure it is formatted correctly.
7. Write the title of your favorite song and make sure it is formatted correctly.
Match each title with the correct way to format it.
8. A book title
a. "Quotation Marks"
9. A movie title
b. Underline or Italics
10. A song title
c. Underline or Italics
Read each sentence. Decide if the statement about titles is True or False.
11. Small words like 'and' and 'the' are always capitalized in a title.
True
False
12. We put quotation marks around the title of a long movie.
True
False