Learning%20Objective:%20Use%20Underlining,%20quotations,%20or%20italics%20to%20identify%20titles%20of%20documents

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• Learning Objective Use Underlining, quotations,
  or italics to identify titles of documents
• Writing conventions
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What are we learning today?

• We are learning how to use underlining,
  quotations, and italics to identify titles of
  documents

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Why is it important?

• Good writers use appropriate punctuation to
  identify titles of documents

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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.
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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.
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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 Arrow Flight - 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.
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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.

1. Have you read the book shiloh?
2. Gingerbread days is the title of a book of poems
   by Joyce Carol Thomas.
3. A gingered january is my favorite poem in the
   book.

Shiloh, Shiloh
Gingerbread Days, Gingerbread Days
A Gingered January
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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

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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.

• 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.

1. I read a great article in USA Today.
2. I read a great article in USA Today
3. I read a great article in USA today.
4. I read a great article in USA Today

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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.

1. My favorite book is Sarah Plain and Tall
   because it takes place in the past.
2. My favorite book is Sarah Plain and Tall because
   it takes place in the past.
3. My favorite book is Sarah Plain and tall because
   it takes place in the past.
4. My favorite book is Sarah Plain And Tall because
   it takes place in the past.