Formatting Titles Worksheet
A Grade 6 ELA worksheet focusing on the correct formatting of titles for books, articles, poems, and other works.
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Formatting Titles
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions to correctly format the titles.
When we write, it's important to format titles correctly. Different types of works use different formatting. For example, longer works like books and movies are usually italicized, while shorter works like poems and articles are put in quotation marks. Let's practice!
1. Which of the following titles should be italicized?
"The Raven"
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"My Weekend Trip"
"How to Bake a Cake"
2. Which of the following titles should be placed in quotation marks?
The Lion King (movie)
National Geographic (magazine)
Mona Lisa (artwork)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (poem)
3. Titles of short stories should be placed in .
4. Titles of plays are typically .
5. The title of a song should be enclosed in .
6. Correctly format the following sentence: I read the book charlotte's web and loved the chapter wilbur's journey.
7. Correctly format the following sentence: My favorite movie is the wizard of oz, especially the song somewhere over the rainbow.
8. A newspaper article title should always be italicized.
True
False
9. The title of a TV series episode should be in quotation marks.
True
False
Match the type of work with its correct title formatting.
10. Novel
a. In quotation marks
11. Article in a magazine
b. Italicized
12. Short poem
c. Not formatted (unless part of a larger work)