What do I do with a Title? Long works and collections of short works are usually put in italics (or underlined) Examples: Movies, Plays, Novels, Newspapers Short works and parts of long works are usually in quotation marks. Poems, Songs, Short Stories, Articles Time to Practice: Brainstorm a title of a well known piece of work, in your head decide if it should be in quotes or italics. Wait for additional directions…

How to do I punctuate dialogue again??? Punctuation during dialogue goes inside quotation marks. Periods or Commas = statements Question Marks = questions Exclamation Points = excited or shouting “Gold fish are tasty”, Robert said.  Incorrect “Gold fish are tasty,” Robert said.  Correct When writing dialogue, cite the speaker first, then the verb. Demanded Sofia Incorrect Kara exclaimed  Correct Time to Practice: line up at the board by table, make sure you have a piece of chalk. Relay race time.

You and I vs. You and Me Use ‘I’ if it is being used as the subject in the sentence You and I went to the store. Use ‘me’ if it is being used as the object in the sentence Kevin blamed you and me for the accident in science class Trick of the day: there's an easy way to decide whether to use I or me in such sentences. All you have to do is drop the word you then try the sentence with I and me one at a time. Now let’s practice! I will use the sticks to call on a student at random. They will get a sentence missing the “me” or “I” and need to tell the class which word to use.

The importance of commas! Commas are the difference between: Let’s eat Grandpa! And… Let’s eat, Grandpa

Commonly Mistaken Words They’re, Their, and There They’re = They are  if there is a contraction separate the words Their= belongs to someone  remember the ‘I’ in their There= in, at, or to a place  here can be interchange with there To, Two, Too To= a preposition Two= a number Too= extra  hint there is so much there it needs an extra ‘o’