Grammar Worksheet · Grades 5–7
Italics and Underlining for Titles Worksheet
A printable grammar worksheet for grades 5-7 on punctuating titles. Students decide whether each title needs italics (or underlining) for long works or quotation marks for short works across eight examples, then answer four short questions. A complete answer key is included.
Subject
Grammar
Grades
Grades 5–7
Skill Focus
Italics and Underlining for Titles, punctuation
Lesson Length
20 minutes
Lesson Overview
About this worksheet
The way you mark a title depends on whether the work is long and complete or short and part of something larger. Titles of long or whole works such as books, movies, and newspapers are set in italics or underlined, while titles of short works such as poems, songs, and chapters take quotation marks. This worksheet helps students make that choice.
Section A on page 1 gives eight titles, and students write italics/underline or quotation marks for each. The reference box teaches the rule with a Charlotte’s Web book example and a ‘Happy Birthday’ song example, so the assessed titles stay independent of the model.
Section B on page 2 asks which works are italicized, which take quotation marks, how to mark a title by hand, and to write and mark a book title and a song title. Page 3 is a complete answer key with sample answers. The skill builds on quotation marks and capitalization rules.
How to Use This Lesson
Read the reference box aloud and use the ‘shelf or screen by itself’ test.
Complete Section A independently – have students ask whole work or part of a work.
Discuss why handwriting uses underlining where typing uses italics.
Use the answer key on page 3 for self-check.
Pair with the Quotation Marks Worksheet or the Capitalization Rules Worksheet.
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Italics and Underlining for Titles Worksheet
A printable grammar worksheet for grades 5-7 on punctuating titles. Students decide whether each title needs italics (or underlining) for long works or quotation marks for short works across eight examples, then answer four short questions. A complete answer key is included.
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