Use underlining, italics, or quotation marks to indicate titles of works (L.5.2.d)
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~4 min
eng.g5.f.ex_36
Title Format Audit
Prompt
Mark title formatting correctly. Italicize/underline OR use quotation marks. (1) I read Brown Girl Dreaming. (2) My favorite poem is Stevie and Me. (3) We watched The Wizard of Oz. (4) I read the article How Do Animals Survive Winter. (5) Esperanza Rising is on our reading list.
How it's presented
mode
annotation on print
Answer criteria
type
rubric
criteria
- Books and full-length works italicized/underlined
- Articles and short works in quotation marks
- All 5 correctly formatted
Hints
- Long works = italics/underline. Short works = quotation marks.
- Books, movies, plays, magazines = long. Articles, poems, songs, short stories = short.
Misconceptions to watch
- Italicizes article titles.
- Puts quotation marks around book titles.