Formatting Titles Worksheet
A Grade 9 ELA worksheet focusing on the correct formatting of titles for various types of works, including capitalization and use of italics or quotation marks.
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Formatting Titles: Grade 9 ELA
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Read each question carefully and follow the instructions to correctly format titles.
Properly formatting titles is essential for clear and professional writing. The general rule is to italicize titles of longer, self-contained works (like books, movies, albums, or plays) and to use quotation marks for shorter works that are part of a larger collection (like chapters, articles, songs, or poems). Remember to capitalize all major words in a title, but not articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, for, nor, so, yet), or prepositions (of, in, on, with, etc.) unless they are the first or last word of the title.
1. Which of the following titles should be italicized?
The Raven (a poem)
Chapter 3: The Discovery
To Kill a Mockingbird (a novel)
Bohemian Rhapsody (a song)
2. Which of the following titles uses correct capitalization?
A Tale Of Two Cities
The Old Man and The Sea
The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
3. Titles of short stories are usually enclosed in .
4. The title of a television series should be , while the title of a single episode should be in .
5. When writing a research paper, the title of a journal article should be placed in .
6. "Of Mice and Men" is an example of a title that should be italicized.
True
False
7. All words in a title, including prepositions, should always be capitalized.
True
False
8. Explain the difference between when to use italics and when to use quotation marks for titles. Provide two examples for each.
Rewrite the following sentences, correctly formatting the titles. Pay attention to both capitalization and the use of italics or quotation marks.
9. My favorite book is the hobbit, and my favorite poem is the road not taken.
10. We watched the movie star wars: a new hope, and then listened to the song bohemian rhapsody.
11. The article how to write an essay was published in the journal modern literature today.