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Name That Game: Capitals in Board Game Titles

Grade 3 capitalization practice: read a short play about a game club, then choose, match and write board game titles with correct capitals.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.3.2.a

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 9 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students capitalize the first word, the last word and the important words in a title.
  • Students find capital letter mistakes in titles and rewrite the titles correctly.

How to use

Have students read the play aloud in parts, then answer the questions alone. Ask them to explain the rule Ms. Park gives before they fix the titles.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.2.a

Capitalize the appropriate words in titles.

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Name That Game: Capitals in Board Game Titles

Read a short play, then fix the titles on game boxes.

Read the play

Read the play. Each paragraph is one part of the play.

Game Club Day

1SETTING: The game room at the Elm Street Rec Center. Dev, Hana and Kwame have each made a board game. Ms. Park, the club leader, looks at the three boxes on the table.

2MS. PARK: These games look amazing! Before we show them to the other kids, let's check the titles on your boxes.

3DEV: My game is called Race to the Top of the Volcano. I put a capital letter on every word except to, the and of.

4MS. PARK: Nice work, Dev. Short words like to, the and of stay lowercase when they are in the middle of a title. The first word, the last word and all the important words get capitals.

5HANA: Uh-oh. My box says Lost In the Crystal cave.

6MS. PARK: Let's look at it together. Is in a short word or an important word?

7HANA: It is a short word in the middle, so it should be lowercase. And cave is the last word, so it needs a capital C!

8KWAME: My game is The Snail and the Rocket. The word the is in my title two times. Only the first one has a capital letter.

9MS. PARK: That's right, Kwame. The first word of a title always gets a capital letter, even when it is a short word.

10HANA: I will fix my box right now. Then we can play all three games!

Questions about the play

Use the play to answer these questions.

1.
In paragraph 7, why does Hana say the word cave needs a capital C?
  • A. It is the name of a real place.
  • B. It comes right after a short word.
  • C. It is the last word of the title.
  • D. It is the shortest word in the title.
2.
Write Hana's title the way it should look after she fixes her box.

 

3.
Choose the two titles that are written correctly.
  • A. Race to the Top of the Volcano
  • B. The Snail and The Rocket
  • C. Race To the Top of the Volcano
  • D. The Snail and the Rocket
  • E. the Snail and the Rocket

Name more games

The club is making more games. Use Ms. Park's rule to check each title.

4.
The kids wrote three new titles in all lowercase letters. Match each one to the box that shows it written correctly. Two boxes will not be used.
  1. a dragon in the attic
  2. ten ducks on a raft
  3. the maze of mirrors
  1. A. Ten Ducks On a Raft
  2. B. The Maze of Mirrors
  3. C. A Dragon in the Attic
  4. D. a Dragon in the Attic
  5. E. Ten Ducks on a Raft
5.
This title has two mistakes: The Treasure Of the Hidden island. Circle the two words that are written wrong.

TheTreasureOftheHiddenisland

6.
Read this title: the race to the end of the river. How many of its words should begin with a capital letter? Write the number.

  words

7.
Dev wrote this title: The Secret door on Pine Hill. Which word should begin with a capital letter but does not?
  • A. on
  • B. door
  • C. Hill
  • D. Secret
8.
Kwame's next game is about a fox and a comet. Write the word the in the blank. Give it the correct first letter.

  Fox and the Comet

9.
Make up a title for a board game you would like to play. Use capital letters correctly.

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