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3rd Grade Capitalizing Titles Worksheets

Titles of books, stories, poems, and songs follow their own capital rule: the first word, the last word, and every important word get capitals, while short joining words (a, an, the, of, in, on, at, to, and, but, or, for) stay lowercase inside. Third graders pick the correctly dressed title from its two classic impostors.

Free printable PDF, aligned to Common Core L.3.2.a. One skill per page, answer key on page two.

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A sample 3rd grade sheet. Yours will have different sentences. Click it to print your own.

The kind of sentences you'll fix

Cross out each small letter that should be a capital, and write the capital above it.

  1. dad reads us tales of the lighthouse.

    Fixed: Dad reads us Tales of the Lighthouse.

  2. the newsletter ran a story called heroes of room nine.
  3. my book report covers the girl and the copper kite.

Every print draws a fresh mix of sentences at this level, so a make-up test or a second sibling gets a different sheet.

What's on each sheet

Every version prints on US Letter or A4, with its answer key on the last page.

How to teach this

Call the big words the stars of the title and the little words the stagehands: stars take capitals, stagehands stay in the dark, but whoever stands first or last is always a star. The over-capped foil (The Fox Of The Field) looks tidy to kids, so it deserves explicit debunking: neat is not the same as correct.

Watch for: The first word of a title is always capital, even if it's a little word: The Fox of the Field. Capping every single word (The Fox Of The Field) is the most common title mistake.

Common questions about capitalizing titles

Which words stay lowercase in a title?
The short joining words: a, an, the, of, in, on, at, to, and, but, or, for. Everything else gets a capital, and the first and last words get one no matter what. That covers nearly every title a 3rd grader will write or meet in the library.
Why is The capitalized in The Fox of the Field but not the second the?
Position. The first word of a title is always capital, even a little joiner; the same word later in the title goes back to lowercase. First and last words outrank the joiner rule, which is the one exception worth memorizing.

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Aligned to Common Core L.3.2.a. Reviewed by the One More Sheet curriculum team. Content version 68, updated July 2026.