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
  1. Books and full-length works italicized/underlined
  2. Articles and short works in quotation marks
  3. All 5 correctly formatted
Hints
  1. Long works = italics/underline. Short works = quotation marks.
  2. Books, movies, plays, magazines = long. Articles, poems, songs, short stories = short.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Italicizes article titles.
  • Puts quotation marks around book titles.