English Language Arts
Grade 2
15 min
Formatting and capitalizing titles: review
Formatting and capitalizing titles: review
What you'll learn
- Identify and correctly capitalize titles of literary works (books, poems, short stories, plays) and other media (articles, movies, songs) with 80% accuracy on a formative assessment.
- Apply the rules of title capitalization, including identifying and excluding prepositions, articles, and coordinating conjunctions (unless they are the first or last word), in a variety of title examples with 75% accuracy.
- Explain the rationale behind title capitalization conventions, differentiating between major and minor words, in a short written response using grammatically correct sentences.
- Correctly format and capitalize at least three self-selected titles from independent reading materials, demonstrating understanding of title capitalization rules.
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Introduction & Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
Identify the first and last word in a title.
Capitalize the first and last word of a title.
Identify 'important' words (like nouns and verbs) in a title.
Identify 'small' words (like a, the, in, on) in a title.
By the end of of this lesson, students will be able to capitalize the important words in a title.
Keep small words in the middle of a title lowercase.
Correctly write a title for a story or a picture.
Have you ever named a pet or a favorite toy? 🧸 Titles are special names for stories and books!
Today, we will learn how to make titles look super! ✨ We will review the special rules for using capital letters in titles. This makes them easy to read and look important.
Real-World Applications
Naming your drawing 🎨
Writing...
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Key Concepts & Vocabulary
TermDefinitionExample
TitleA title is the special name of a book, story, song, or picture. 📖The name of your favorite book, like 'Green Eggs and Ham'.
Capital LetterA capital letter is the big version of a letter. It's not a small letter. 🅰️A, B, C are capital letters. a, b, c are small letters.
First WordThis is the very first word you see in a title. It always gets a capital letter. 🥇In 'The Happy Dog', the first word is 'The'.
Last WordThis is the very last word in a title. It also always gets a capital letter. 🏆In 'The Happy Dog', the last word is 'Dog'.
Important WordsThese are the main words in a title, like names of people, places, or things. 🍎In 'My Red Car', the words 'My', 'Red', and 'C...
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Key Rules & Conventions
First and Last Word Rule 🥇
Always capitalize the first word and the last word of a title.
No matter what the words are, the first and last ones are always big.
Important Words Rule ⭐
Capitalize all the important words in the middle.
Important words are words like 'Cat', 'Jump', 'Blue', 'Sun'. They tell us what the story is about.
Small Words Rule 🐜
Do not capitalize small words in the middle of a title.
Small words like 'a', 'in', 'of', 'for', 'and', 'the' stay lowercase unless they are the first or last word.
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Challenging
Look at two possible movie titles:
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. The Lord Of The Rings
Which sentence is true?
A.Only title 1 is correct.
B.Both titles are correct.
C.Only title 2 is correct.
D.Both titles are incorrect.
Challenging
The words for a book title are: a, wrinkle, in, time. What is the correct title?
A.Wrinkle In Time
B.wrinkle in time
C.Wrinkle in Time
D.Wrinkle In time
Challenging
The title of a song is written as 'the Wheels on the Bus'. What is the main rule that is broken?
A.name was not capitalized.
B.The first word of the title was not capitalized.
C.The last word of the title was not capitalized.
D.small word was capitalized by mistake.
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