Formatting Titles Worksheet

Formatting Titles Practice

Read each question carefully and follow the instructions. Remember the rules for capitalizing and punctuating titles of different types of works.

When we write about books, songs, movies, or articles, it's important to format their titles correctly. This helps readers understand what kind of work you are talking about. Generally, longer works like books, movies, and album titles are italicized or underlined. Shorter works, such as poems, songs, chapters, and articles, are put in quotation marks. All important words in a title should be capitalized, but short words like 'a', 'an', 'the', 'and', 'but', 'or', 'nor', and prepositions (like 'in', 'on', 'at', 'to', 'from') are usually not capitalized unless they are the first or last word of the title.

1. Which of the following titles is formatted correctly for a book?

2. Which of the following titles is formatted correctly for a song?

3. The title of a movie or a play should be  .

4. The title of a short story or an article should be placed in  .

5. In a title, words like 'a', 'an', and 'the' are usually not capitalized unless they are the   word.

6. Correctly format the following sentence: I read the book charlotte's web and loved the chapter the barn.

7. You are writing an email to a friend about your favorite song. How would you correctly write the title of the song 'twinkle twinkle little star'?

8. All words in a title, no matter how short, should always be capitalized.

9. A poem's title should be italicized.

10. Write a short paragraph (3-5 sentences) about your favorite movie. Make sure to correctly format the title of the movie and any other titles you mention (like a book it might be based on, or a song from the soundtrack).