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Noodle the Goldfish: Capitals in Story Titles

Read about a class that writes stories about its goldfish, then choose, sort and fix the capital letters in story titles.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.3.2.a

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

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students capitalize the first word, the last word and the important words in a title.
  • Students keep small words such as and, the, of and for lowercase in the middle of a title.

How to use

Read the passage together and list the small words from paragraph 3 on the board. Students can check that list as they fix each title.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.2.a

Capitalize the appropriate words in titles.

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Noodle the Goldfish: Capitals in Story Titles

Choose, fix and write story titles with correct capital letters.

Read about the class goldfish

Read the passage. It tells the rules for capital letters in titles.

Stories About Noodle

1Mr. Lindqvist's third graders have a class goldfish named Noodle. Noodle is orange with a white spot on her tail. Every week, one student feeds her, and that student writes a short story about her.

2Before the stories went up on the wall, Mr. Lindqvist showed the class how to write a title. "Always capitalize the first word and the last word," he said. "Capitalize the other important words too, like nouns, verbs and describing words."

3Then he pointed to a list of small words on the board: a, an, the, and, but, or, of, in, on, at, to, for and with. "These little words stay lowercase unless they are the first word or the last word," he explained.

4Hana wrote a title for her story: "noodle and the shiny pebble." Mr. Lindqvist smiled. "I like your story, but check your capitals," he said. Hana fixed it to read "Noodle and the Shiny Pebble."

5Ezra named his story "A Bubble for Noodle." Pilar named hers "The Day Noodle Hid." Their titles were correct on the first try, and the class cheered.

1.
In Pilar's title, "The Day Noodle Hid," why does Hid begin with a capital letter?
  • A. It is the first word of the title.
  • B. It is one of the small words.
  • C. It is the last word of the title.
  • D. It is the name of the goldfish.
2.
Hana's first title was "noodle and the shiny pebble." Which words needed capital letters?
  • A. Capitals on "and," "the" and "pebble"
  • B. Capitals on "noodle," "shiny" and "pebble"
  • C. Capitals on "noodle," "and" and "the"
  • D. Capitals on "the," "shiny" and "pebble"

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