Formatting Titles Worksheet
A Grade 7 ELA worksheet focusing on the rules for formatting titles of various works, including capitalization, italics, and quotation marks.
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions to correctly format titles.
When writing, it's important to correctly format the titles of different types of works. This helps your reader understand what you are referencing. Generally, longer, stand-alone works (like books, movies, and albums) are italicized, while shorter works that are part of a larger collection (like chapters, articles, and songs) are put in quotation marks. Remember to always capitalize the first and last words of a title, as well as all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. Conjunctions, articles, and prepositions are usually not capitalized unless they are the first or last word.
1. Which of the following titles should be italicized?
The Cat in the Hat (book)
The Raven (poem)
Bohemian Rhapsody (song)
Chapter 3: The Secret Garden (chapter)
2. Which of the following titles should be placed in quotation marks?
Star Wars: A New Hope (movie)
The New York Times (newspaper)
Ode to a Nightingale (poem)
Thriller (album)
3. Titles of books should be .
4. Titles of short stories are placed in .
5. The title of a TV show episode should be enclosed in .
6. Rewrite the following sentence, correcting the formatting of the title: I read an article called "the benefits of exercise" in the magazine "health weekly".
7. Rewrite the following sentence, correcting the formatting of the title: My favorite movie is star wars: the empire strikes back.
8. All words in a title, including articles and prepositions, should always be capitalized.
True
False
9. A poem's title should be italicized.
True
False
10. Imagine you are writing a book report on 'The Hunger Games' and you want to mention a specific chapter called 'The Tributes'. How would you correctly format both titles in a sentence?