Sophia Learning
Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Your Writing
Notes, a fourteen-slide presentation, and two videos teaching students how to incorporate and punctuate quotes into various sections of an essay and how to embed quotes within a paragraph.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Quotation Marks
A nine-slide presentation introducing quotation marks, providing rules for quotation mark usage, and showing examples of the proper use of quotation marks.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Separation Punctuation
This website provides information about how to use separation punctuation. There is a video clip [0:47] on why periods go inside quotation marks, and a second video clip [1:07] showing the effects of using too many exclamation points.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization in Quotations
A six-slide presentation explaining capitalization rules for words inside quotation marks. Examples are provided.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that uses embedded quotations to provide evidence in your response to an expository or a literary text.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Extended Rules for Using Quotation Marks
This page offers more rules for using quotation marks, not just the basic rules. For example, Quotation marks may be used to indicate words used to denote irony.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Punctuation
This instructional activity focuses on the roles of all of the punctuation marks; it provides a video, small practices in various sections, and a punctuation self-check.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: Overview: Using Quoting & Paraphrasing
This learning module explains the components of academic writing. The module includes the following topics: original material, paraphrased content, summarized information, and direct quotations.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Quotation Marks
This tutorial illustrates when it's appropriate to use quotation marks in your writing.
PBS
Pbs: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Proper Punctuation for Titles
This video focuses on correctly punctuating titles. Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either...
Get It Write
Get It Write: Punctuating With Quotation Marks
Punctuating direct address can be tricky. This tutorial gives clear examples and explanations of where to place the closing puncution, depending on the meaning of the sentence. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Brief Overview of Punctuation
This lesson provides a brief overview of semicolons, colons, parentheses, dashes, quotation marks, italics, and underlining.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Quotations and Commas
During this lesson students will have the opportunity to learn the proper way to use quotations and commas. They will view information on the Internet and participate in online activities to help them master this concept.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using Commas and Quotations
Quotations and commas are two very useful punctuation tools that indicate dialogue and brief pausing in sentences. Learn how to use them correctly! [0:46]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Italics, Underlines, and Quotes
Learn how to use italics, underlines, and quotes when writing titles of books, movies, songs, etc.
English Plus+
Quotation Marks With Slang: Rules for Use
This site discusses using quotation marks with slang and an example is included.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Online Writer's Choice: Punctuating Dialogue
This tutorial focuses on punctuating dialogue including how to use quotation marks and commas correctly. The explanation and examples are followed by a self-grading practice exercise.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Quotation Marks: Lesson 3
This learning module introduces quotation marks, how they are used, and how to use other punctuation with them. A quiz to assess learning is also provided. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Quotation Marks."
TES Global
Blendspace: Quotation Marks 3.w.6.2b
A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, websites and videos on how to properly use quotation marks.
TES Global
Blendspace: L3.2c Quotation Marks
A ten-part learning module with links to images, videos, and websites to use while learning about quotation marks.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Quotation Marks
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the basic conventions of speech punctuation in reading and writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Ten Minute Grammar Lessons Quotation Marks
[Free Registration/Login Required] These lessons are intended to be used by English Language Arts teachers in grades 6-8 for a quick, whole-class review of the rules for using quotation marks.
Other
Sta: Punctuation and Capitalization Rules
Use this handy guide for a quick reference to punctuation and capitalization rules. Includes rules for end marks, apostrophes, capitalization, commas, quotation marks, and many more!