Curated OER
Titles Using the Main Idea
Young writers learn to write a good name for a story that tells the big idea. They read a one-sentence illustrated story and from two choices, write a title in capital letters. Nice learning exercise!
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Titles
This video lesson focuses on capitalization of titles. It discusses the tradition styles for capitalizing titles for books, magazines, movies, chapters, essays, and articles; it also discusses the more modern APA styles for chapters,...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Capitalization:titles of Books, Articles, Songs
This page explains the rules for capitalizing titles: In informal writing all words may be capitalized, but in formal writing, articles, conjunctions, and prepositions are NOT capitalized unless they begin a sentence. Examples are provided.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
The slideshow lesson focuses on capitalization including why words are capitalized, general rules for capitalization, and rules and examples for capitalizing titles and proper nouns.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization: Basic Rules
Nine slides introducing the basic rules of capitalization and providing examples of each.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Titles
This lesson focuses on capitalizing titles; it explains why titles are capitalized, discusses the rules for capitalizing titles, and provides examples for each rule.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
This capitalization tutorial uses a variey of media. It begins with the reasons for capitalization and examples set to music in a video and a battle between lower and upper case letters; these are followed by a PDF of the rules for...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Title
Six slides explaining how capitalization is used properly in titles including books, essays, articles, movies, and people.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: L.3.2a: Capitalize Appropriate Words in Tites
Links to a lesson that builds student skills in standard L.3.2a: Capitalize appropriate words in titles.
Other
Illinois Valley Community College: Stylebook: Formatting Titles in Mla Style
Notes and examples for formatting titles using MLA style.
Other
K12 Reader: Capital Letters in Titles
Use this activity to practice capitalizing titles correctly.