School City of Hobart
Too Many Types Of Titles
Direct instruction on punctuation rules for titles is followed by collaborative practice in class. Two worksheets with aesthetically engaging graphic design provide practice. For 12 examples, small groups either underline, italicize, or...
Curated OER
Italics or Quotation Marks?
Be sure to click "Download this Activity" to view the plan in its formatted version. The first worksheet has learners review what types of titles are italicized, underlined, or placed in quotation marks. The second page contains the...
Curated OER
What's In a Noun: Grammar and Usage
Nine lessons in a grammar and usage unit provide endless opportunities for drill and practice. Topics include the four types of sentences, subject and predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and prepositions, conjunctions...
Curated OER
Those Baffling Bibliographies!
Are you working on a research and citation unit? Have your young writers listen to a lecture on how to cite research sources correctly and how to distinguish new information that requires citing. They compile a list of works cited from...
Curated OER
Presidents: Bibliography
Give credit where credit is due! After listening to a lecture/demo about why creating a bibliography is important, what should be included in a bibliography, and how to craft a bibliography, class members draft one for their own research.
Curated OER
ESL: Punctuating Titles
When are titles underlined, italicized, or placed in quotation marks? Take your class to the computer lab to give them some independent practice. Here they read through the information, examples, and explanations provided. They then...
Curated OER
Underlining or Italics and Quotation Marks
In this language arts worksheets learners will focus upon the correct usage of titles. Young scholars will focus on 14 sentences noting the correct way to punctuate the given proper nouns.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Quotation Marks Exercise
Practice using quotation marks and italics in this brief exercise. Check your answers when you're done.
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Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: An Educational Companion to Eats, Shoots & Leaves [Pdf]
Eats, Shoots & Leaves illustrates the necessity of correct punctuation in order to convey intended meaning. Punctuation rules are stated here in a concise manner with accompanying exercises/keys.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation
This page provides links to punctuation reference materials for apostrophes, colons, dashes, commas, parentheses, italics, quotation marks, and semicolons.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Italics
This entry provides the rules and examples for when and how to use italics and quotation marks in titles, quotations, and more.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation
This site offers a list of links to punctuation exercises/quizzes including commas, semicolons, quotation marks, apostrophes, and italics.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Italics and Quotations With Titles Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Italics and Quotations with Titles.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Italics and Quotations With Titles Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Italics and Quotations with Titles.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Italics and Quotations With Special Words Exercise
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the use of Italics and Quotations with Special Words.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Italics and Underlining: Foreign Words
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing foreign words in a sentence.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining
An explanation of the uses of italics and underlining. Links to additional information are provided.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Titles of Works
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing titles.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Words, Letters, Numbers Gram. Rules
An explanation and examples underlining/italicizing words, letters, and numbers when they refer to themselves.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Names Ships and Trains
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing the names of spacecraft, aircraft, ships, and trains.
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...
Harvard University
Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Titles
This site contains information regarding the correct use of italics in titles.