Punctuating Titles
Quotation marks or underlining
Punctuating Titles: Turn to page 268 and read the instructions. Correct the following titles that should be in quotations.
1. O Captain! My Captain! is a poem by Walt Whitman.
2. The Two Brothers is a short story by Leo Tolstoy.
3.The district writing assessment required students to write an essay titled, School Uniforms.
Title of a short poem
Ex: “The Raven”
Title of a short story:
Ex. “Young Goodman Brown”
Title of an essay
Ex: “The Qualities of a Friend”
Punctuating Titles: Turn to page 268 and read the instructions. Correct the following titles that should be in quotations.
1.Who Do You Love? is the title of a song by YG.
2. Sports Illustrated magazine has an article entitled, Modern Sports Injuries.
3. Our grammar book has a chapter called, The Sentence and Its Parts.
Title of a song
Ex: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
Title of a magazine article:
Ex. “New Uses for Milk”
Title of a book chapter:
Ex: “The Revival of Trade in Towns” from the Social Studies Textbook.
Punctuating Titles: Turn to page 268 and read the instructions. Correct the following titles that should be in italics or underlined.
1. My favorite book as a child was If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
2. Sports Illustrated magazine has an article entitled, “Modern Sports Injuries.”
3. William Shakespeare is the author of the play Romeo and Juliet.
Title of a Book:
Ex: The Hunger Games
Title of a magazine:
Ex: Time
Title of a play:
Ex:The Christmas Carol
Punctuating Titles: Turn to page 268 and read the instructions. Correct the following titles that should be in italics or underlined.
1. Many people find the painting called The Scream frightening.
2. The Titanic sank when it hit an iceberg.
3. The Trans-Siberian Express makes the longest regular train trip in the world.
4. The Spirit of St. Louis was a plane flown by Charles Lindberg.
Title of a painting:
Ex: Mona Lisa
Title of a ship:
Ex: Queen Mary
Title of a train:
Ex:Coast Starlight
Title of an airplane or spacecraft:
Ex: Apollo II
1. Did Mr. Talbot see Death of a Salesman when he saw a play?
2. The guest star sang People Will Say We’re in Love from the musical Oklahoma!
3. We rode the Orient Express, a train, to Istanbul in Turkey.
4. How many times has Abby read the book Little Women?
5. When exactly did the Titanic sink?
Punctuating Titles: Use quotation marks or underlining correctly to identify and set off titles.
1. The book American Folk Toys includes directions for making many simple toys.
2. One of my favorite episodes of Star Trek was called The Trouble with Tribbles.
3. The short story A Time of Beginnings was about the life of an artist.
Punctuating Titles: Use quotation marks or underlining correctly to identify and set off titles.
Use quotation marks to set off the titles of short works.
Titles of short works and sections of longer works:
Ex: “The Raven”
Title of a short Story:
Ex. “Young Goodman Brown”
Title of an Essay
Ex: “The Qualities of a Good Friend”
Title of an article
Ex: “The Pros and Cons of School Uniforms”
1. Title of a Short