This writing titles worksheet helps students learn the rules for capitalizing and formatting titles of books, movies, songs, and other works through guided practice.

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✔ Objective of the Worksheet:

- Students must correctly capitalize and punctuate titles of books, movies, songs, articles, etc.
- They are given a list of titles in incorrect form and must rewrite them properly.
- A helpful chart is provided as a guide:
- Book: *Life of the Mantis* → Use title case, italicize or underline.
- Magazine: *Cobblestone* → Use title case, italicize or underline.
- Story: *"The Necklace"* → Use title case, enclose in quotation marks.
- Song: *"Home on the Range"* → Use title case, enclose in quotation marks.
- Play: *The Lion King* → Use title case, italicize or underline.
- Article: *"How to Snowboard"* → Use title case, enclose in quotation marks.

> Note: The instructions say to use underlining instead of italics when writing by hand.

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🔧 Rules for Capitalizing Titles:

1. Capitalize the first word, the last word, and all major words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns).
2. Do not capitalize articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet), or prepositions with fewer than 5 letters (in, on, at, to, for, of, up, down, etc.), unless they are the first or last word.
3. Use quotation marks for short works (songs, poems, articles, short stories).
4. Italicize or underline long works (books, magazines, movies, plays).

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Now let’s solve each item one by one:

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✍️ Corrected Titles:

1. sound of the blue dolphins (book)
→ *Sound of the Blue Dolphins*
*(Book title – italicize/underline; capitalize major words)*

2. orange rock (magazine)
→ *Orange Rock*
*(Magazine name – italicize/underline; capitalize both words)*

3. star wars (movie)
→ *Star Wars*
*(Movie title – italicize/underline; capitalize both words)*

4. the cat and the moon (story)
→ *"The Cat and the Moon"*
*(Short story – use quotation marks; capitalize major words)*

5. on the groundhog and cricket (poem)
→ *"On the Groundhog and Cricket"*
*(Poem – quotation marks; capitalize "On", "Groundhog", "Cricket")*

6. romance under july (play)
→ *Romance Under July*
*(Play – italicize/underline; capitalize major words)*

7. who made that? (article)
→ *"Who Made That?"*
*(Article – quotation marks; question mark inside; capitalize "Who", "Made", "That")*

8. where's the red hen (poem)
→ *"Where's the Red Hen?"*
*(Poem – quotation marks; capitalize "Where's", "Red", "Hen"; question mark inside)*

9. the wall street journal (magazine)
→ *The Wall Street Journal*
*(Magazine – italicize/underline; capitalize all major words)*

10. oh, i say (song)
→ *"Oh, I Say"*
*(Song – quotation marks; capitalize "Oh", "I", "Say")*

11. sleeping beauty (movie)
→ *Sleeping Beauty*
*(Movie – italicize/underline; capitalize both words)*

12. how to net field scores (book)
→ *How to Net Field Scores*
*(Book – italicize/underline; capitalize major words)*

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✔ Final Answer Key:

| Original | Corrected Title |
|--------|------------------|
| 1. sound of the blue dolphins (book) | *Sound of the Blue Dolphins* |
| 2. orange rock (magazine) | *Orange Rock* |
| 3. star wars (movie) | *Star Wars* |
| 4. the cat and the moon (story) | *"The Cat and the Moon"* |
| 5. on the groundhog and cricket (poem) | *"On the Groundhog and Cricket"* |
| 6. romance under july (play) | *Romance Under July* |
| 7. who made that? (article) | *"Who Made That?"* |
| 8. where's the red hen (poem) | *"Where's the Red Hen?"* |
| 9. the wall street journal (magazine) | *The Wall Street Journal* |
| 10. oh, i say (song) | *"Oh, I Say"* |
| 11. sleeping beauty (movie) | *Sleeping Beauty* |
| 12. how to net field scores (book) | *How to Net Field Scores* |

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📝 Explanation Summary:

- Books, movies, plays, magazines: Use title case, italicize or underline.
- Songs, poems, short stories, articles: Use title case, quotation marks.
- Always capitalize the first and last words, and all major words.
- Do not capitalize small words like "the", "and", "of", etc., unless they are the first or last word.
- Punctuation (like question marks) goes inside quotation marks.

This worksheet helps reinforce proper formatting conventions used in English writing.

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