1. 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…

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. 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’