Capitalization and Writing Titles

​Capitalization and Writing Titles

By Chieko DeBoise

Review

When To Use Capital Letters

Capitalize the first, the last, and each important word in every title.

Example:

• Flora and Ulysses

• The Year of the Rat

• The Diary of the Wimpy Kid

• The Starry Night

​How Do I Capitalize and Write Titles?

​What Should I Underline?	​When Should I Put Quotations?
​Books Flora and Ulysses The Year of the Rat	​Poems “For Sale” "Monster I Met"
​Magazine Time for Kids	​Short stories "Little Bo Peep"
​Movies Five Nights at Freddy's	Songs "Not Like Us"
​Newspapers The Washington Post	Articles "Home Run for Robots"
Works of art The Starry Night	​

-by -a

-an -for

-on -but

-the -and

-in -of

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​DO Not Capitalize

​​These words only need to be capitalized if they are the FIRST word or the LAST word in a title.

NOW IT'S TIME FOR PRACTICE

Multiple Select

When capitalizing titles, the first word and last word are always capitalized.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

When writing and capitalizing poems, articles, and songs you should.....

• Use all lowercase letters throughout the poem.
• Capitalize and underline every word in the poem.

• Capitalize the first, the last, and each important word and then put quotations around the titles.

• Capitalize only the last word of each line.

Multiple Select

When capitalizing titles, capitalize the important words in the title.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Select the correct capitalization of the title below.

the secret life of pets

• The Secret Life of Pets

• The Secret Life Of Pets

• The secret life Of Pets

• the Secret Life of Pets

Multiple Choice

Select the correct sentence. The book title must be capitalized and underlined.

My favorite book to read is Where the Wild Things Are.

• My favorite book to read is Where the wild Things Are.

• My favorite book to read is Where the Wild Things Are.

• My favorite book to read is where the wild things are.

• My favorite book to read is Where The Wild Things Are.

Multiple Choice

Select the correct way to write the sentence below.

My teacher read them poem Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star to us yesterday.

• My teacher read the poem Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star to us yesterday.

• My teacher read them the poem twinkle, twinkle, little star yesterday.

• My teacher read a poem called Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star to us yesterday.
• My teacher read the poem "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" to us yesterday.

Multiple Select

In the title "the wizard of oz", select all of the words you would capitalize.

• the

• wizard

• of

• oz

Multiple Select

In the title "green eggs and ham", select all of the words you would capitalize.

• green

• eggs

• and

• ham

Multiple Choice

Select the correct capitalization of the title below.

avengers: endgame

• "Avengers: endgame"

• avengers: EndGame

• Avengers: endGame

• Avengers: Endgame

Multiple Choice

Write the following correctly:

I ordered the latest edition of the magazine scholastic news.

• I ordered the latest edition of the magazine Scholastic News.

• I ordered the latest edition of the magazine Scholastic news.
• I ordered the latest edition of Scholastic News magazine.
• I ordered the latest edition of the magazine scholastic News.

Open Ended

Write the following sentence correctly.

eyes on the prize is my favorite song.

Open Ended

Create one sentence using your favorite book and one sentence using the name of your favorite song. Be sure to use the correct capitalization. Don't forget to capitalize and underline when needed.