Using Capital Letters in Titles 1

Using Capital Letters in Titles 1

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This task is about using capital letters.
 
 
boy reading a book.jpg
Ari made a list of his favourite books but he forgot to use capital letters for the book titles.

Question 1Change answer

Read Ari's list of book titles below. Choose the correct type of letter (capital letter, lower-case letter) to start each word.
open book.jpg
 


a)  tT oad rR age

b)  tT ime oO ut

c)  tT he wW itches

d)  tT he sS uitcase kK id

e)  kK ingdom bB y tT he sS ea

f)  rR un fF or tT he tT rees
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with auto marking displayed to students).
Copyright: 
Photo by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels (boy reading)
Public Domain | Pixabay on Pexels (book)
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
English, Creating meaning, Writing
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
punctuation, capital letters
Description of task: 
This task assesses students' understanding of the use of capital letters in titles, by asking them to read six book titles and put capital letters in the places they are needed.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students’ ability to create texts to meet the writing demands of the New Zealand Curriculum.
 

Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • use basic punctuation correctly, attempting some complex punctuation
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Writing at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Writing meaningful text: text features, set 4
within the Writing Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y7 (02/2002)

a)

Toad Rage

moderate

b)

Time Out

moderate

c)

The Witches

moderate

d)

The Suitcase Kid

difficult

e)

Kingdom by the Sea

very difficult

f)

Run for the Trees

difficult

NOTE: Each mark is given when the student has inserted capital letters in all places necessary, and has not inserted them in extra unnecessary places.

Diagnostic and formative information: 
Common error Likely reason
On average 89% of students gave the first word in each title a capital letter, but only 47% of students gave capital letters to other words that needed them. While the majority of students know that the first word in a title has a capital letter, on average less than half know that other words in titles also need to be capitalised.