How to Punctuate Titles EQ: When do I underline or use quotations to punctuate titles?

Vocabulary Italics Quotation Marks Titles of work

When to Underline/Italicize Titles: We underline/italicize the BIG things. Major works such as the titles of: Books: Toad and Frog or Toad and Frog Albums: Reflection by Fifth Harmony or Reflection Plays: Wicked and The Color Purple Movies: Up, Star Wars, Goosebumps Magazines: Time, American Girl, People Paintings and Ships: Mona Lisa or Mona Lisa

Italics and Underlining Italics and underlining are the same. Use Italics when you are typing. Use Underlining when handwriting.

Model 1. In the Louvre Museum, you can see the famous Mona Lisa painting. 2. I did my book report on Ben and Me.

Examples: 1. In the Louvre Museum, you can see the famous Mona Lisa painting. In the Louvre Museum, you can see the famous Mona Lisa painting. 2. I did my book report on Ben and Me. 3. Her mom loves to read People magazine and Time magazine. 4.The Titanic was a famous ship that sunk.

Practice 1. The Call of the Wild and White Fang are books written by Jack London. 2. Because of Winn-Dixie is both a book and a movie. 3. Modern Dog is a wonderful magazine if you are a dog lover. 4. My favorite TV show is , Scooby-Doo.

Quotation Marks *Think of these titles as SMALLER: Articles in magazines: “Children of 2015” Chapters in books: “Harper’s Challenge” from Charlotte’ s Web Songs on an album: “Rolling in the Deep” from Adele’s 21 album Acts in a play: Episodes of a TV show Poems, *Short Stories, *Essays

Model Time had an interesting article called, Teacher’s Union. 2. We read the poem, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.

Examples: 3. Josh’s favorite song is , It Takes Two. 4.Last week, Sarah wrote an essay called My Best Friend. 5. Spongebob’s New Car is one of the funniest episode’s from the Spongebob Squarepants.

Practice – Punctuate these sentences. Pretend you are handwriting. 1.. On the news website Science Daily, you can read an article titled “Siberian Fossil Revealed to be One of the Oldest Known Domestic Dogs.” 2. Elvis Presley sang a song called “Hound Dog” in 1956. 3. “Big Scare in the Big Easy” is my favorite episode of Scooby-Doo. 4. Lassie was a famous TV series in the 1950’s.

Practice 5. A Boy Meets his Dog was painted by Normal Rockwell. 6. Did you see the movie Beverly Hills Chihuahua? 7. Balto is a statue in Central Park that commemorates the famous Siberian Huskey who transported the diphtheria serum Nome, Alaska. 8. Lassie was a famous TV series in the 1950’s. 9. A Boy Meets his Dog was painted by Normal Rockwell.