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Learn to identify and punctuate titles in writing using underlining, quotations, and italics. Understand when to capitalize words in titles for shorter and longer works. Enhance your writing conventions skills.
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Learning Objective: Use Underlining, quotations, or italics to identify titles of documents Writing conventions 1.5
What are we learning today? We are learning how to use underlining, quotations, and italics to identify titles of documents
Why is it important? Good writers use appropriate punctuation to identify titles of documents
Partner Share Share with your Partner the words that should be capitalized in the sentence. during the summertime, sarah loves to visit disneyland. During the summertime, Sarah loves to visit Disneyland.
Capitalization and Punctuation of Titles Shorter Works- Poems, chapters, short stories, articles Example: The Dog and the Boy • The first word is always capitalized • All nouns, verbs, and adjectives are capitalized • The last word is always capitalized • Use quotation marks around the title. • If you are writing the title in a sentence, place a comma before the quotation marks. • If the title of the story is the END of your sentence, place the period INSIDE of the quotation marks. “The Dog and the Boy” I read the poem, “The Dog and the Boy” in class yesterday. My favorite poem is “The Dog and the Boy.”
Longer Works- books, magazines, movies, plays, TV shows • The first word is always capitalized • All nouns, verbs, and adjectives are capitalized • The last word is always capitalized • Use italics or underline the title. • If you are referring to the title in a sentence, place a comma before and after the title. Ex: Homeward the ArrowFlight - Ex: Homeward the Arrow Flight - Ex: Homeward the Arrow Flight Example: My favorite book, Homeward the Arrow Flight, is about a boy trying to get home on a rocket.
Step 1 Identify if it is a long document or short documentStep 2: If short document use quotations, if long document underline or use italicsStep 3: Capitalize the first word, last word, nouns, verbs, and adjectives On your white boards write the title correctly. Have you read the book shiloh? Gingerbread days is the title of a book of poems by Joyce Carol Thomas. A gingered january is my favorite poem in the book. Shiloh, Shiloh Gingerbread Days, Gingerbread Days “ A Gingered January”
Step • Step 1: identify if it is a long document or short document • Step 2 Use quotations if it is a short document. Underline or use italics if it is a long document • Step 3 capitalize the first word, last word, nouns, verbs, and adjectives of the title. • I read an article in sports illustrated. • A. I read an article in “Sports Illustrated”. • B. I read an article in Sports Illustrated. • C. I read an article in Sports Illustrated. • D. I read an article in “Sports illustrated”
Step 1 Identify if it is a long document or short documentStep 2: If short document use quotations, if long document underline or use italicsStep 3: Capitalize first word, last word, nouns, verbs, and adjectives In the book Tales Of A Fourth grade Nothing, my favorite chapter was just Another Rainy day. I read a great article in USA Today. I read a great article in USA Today. I read a great article in “USA Today” I read a great article in USA today. I read a great article in “USA Today” • A. In the book, Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing, my favorite chapter was “Just Another Rainy Day” • B. In the book, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, my favorite chapter was “Just Another Rainy Day.” • C. In the book “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing,” my favorite chapter was Just Another Rainy Day.
Step 1 Identify if it is a long document or short documentStep 2: If short document use quotations, if long document underline or use italicsStep 3: Capitalize first word, last word, nouns, verbs, and adjectives My favorite book is Sarah Plain and Tall because it takes place in the past. • My favorite book is “Sarah Plain and Tall” because it takes place in the past. • My favorite book is Sarah Plain and Tall because it takes place in the past. • My favorite book is Sarah Plain and tall because it takes place in the past. • My favorite book is Sarah Plain And Tall because it takes place in the past.
