Capitalising titles

Key Notes:

📝 Capitalising Titles

What is a Title?

A title is the name of a book, story, poem, article, movie, song, or any creative work.

• 📚 Example: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ✨

Capitalising the Important Words

In titles, capitalize the first and last words, and all important words in between.

✅ Important words include:

• Nouns (person, place, thing) 🏰
• Pronouns (he, she, it, they) 👧👦
• Verbs (action words) 🏃‍♂️
• Adjectives (describing words) 🌟
• Adverbs (words that describe verbs) 🏃‍♀️ quickly

❌ Do not capitalize short, unimportant words like:

• a, an, the
• in, on, at, by, of, and, but, or

Examples

• The Lion King 🦁 ✅
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ✨✅
• To Kill a Mockingbird 🐦✅
• A Tale of Two Cities 🏙️✅

Tips to Remember

• Capitalize the first and last words of the title. 🏁
• Capitalize all main words in the middle. ⭐
• Do not capitalize small words like “and, the, in” unless they are first or last. ❌

Fun Trick! 🎉

Try this: If you can say “and” or “of” between two words in the title, don’t capitalize the small word.

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ✅
• “of” is small, so keep it lowercase.

Emoji Memory Aid

📖 = Book title
🟢 = Capitalize
🔴 = Don’t capitalize

Example:

• 🟢The 🟢Great 🟢Gatsby 🔴of 🟢Fitzgerald

Let’s practice!🖊️