1. Learning Objective: Use Underlining, quotations, or italics to identify titles of documents
Writing conventions 1.5
Do gestures with students. Open one hand for compare and another hand for contrast and ask students to repeat

2. What are we learning today?
We are learning how to use underlining, quotations, and italics to identify titles of documents
CFU: Call on non volunteer

3. Why is it important?
Good writers use appropriate punctuation to identify titles of documents
Read the importance and have students offer other reasons: call on volunteers
Tell students that coherence means to understand

4. During the summertime, Sarah loves to visit Disneyland.
Partner Share
Share with your Partner the words that should be capitalized in the sentence. during the summertime, sarah loves to visit disneyland.
Allow time for students to share answers
During the summertime, Sarah loves to visit Disneyland.

5. Capitalization and Punctuation of Titles
Shorter Works- Poems, chapters, short stories, articles
The first word is always capitalized
All nouns, verbs, and adjectives are capitalized
The last word is always capitalized
Use quotation marks around the title.
If you are writing the title in a sentence, place a comma before the quotation marks.
If the title of the story is the END of your sentence, place the period INSIDE of the quotation marks.
Example:
The Dog and the Boy
“The Dog and the Boy”
I read the poem, “The Dog and the Boy” in class yesterday.
Provide definition of short and long works
My favorite poem is “The Dog and the Boy.”

6. Longer Works- books, magazines, movies, plays, TV shows
The first word is always capitalized
All nouns, verbs, and adjectives are capitalized
The last word is always capitalized
Use italics or underline the title.
If you are referring to the title in a sentence, place a comma before and after the title.
Ex: Homeward the Arrow Flight
- Ex: Homeward the Arrow Flight
Example:
My favorite book, Homeward the Arrow Flight, is about a boy trying to get home on a rocket.

7. On your white boards write the title correctly.
Step 1 Identify if it is a long document or short document Step 2: If short document use quotations, if long document underline or use italics Step 3: Capitalize the first word, last word, nouns, verbs, and adjectives
On your white boards write the title correctly.
Have you read the book shiloh?
Gingerbread days is the title of a book of poems by Joyce Carol Thomas.
A gingered january is my favorite poem in the book.
Shiloh, Shiloh
Gingerbread Days, Gingerbread Days
What did we learn today?
An importance question: Why is it important to know how to write titles correctly?
Tell students: Lets review some just to make sure we have a good understanding of what we learned today! Please take out your whiteboards (white boards should already be put along with pens at the top corner of their desk)
“ A Gingered January”

8. Step Step 1: identify if it is a long document or short document
Step 2 Use quotations if it is a short document. Underline or use italics if it is a long document
Step 3 capitalize the first word, last word, nouns, verbs, and adjectives of the title.
I read an article in sports illustrated.
A. I read an article in “Sports Illustrated”.
B. I read an article in Sports Illustrated.
C. I read an article in Sports Illustrated.
D. I read an article in “Sports illustrated”

9. I read a great article in USA Today.
Step 1 Identify if it is a long document or short document Step 2: If short document use quotations, if long document underline or use italics Step 3: Capitalize first word, last word, nouns, verbs, and adjectives
In the book Tales Of A Fourth grade Nothing, my favorite chapter was just Another Rainy day.
I read a great article in USA Today.
A. In the book, Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing, my favorite chapter was “Just Another Rainy Day”
B. In the book, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, my favorite chapter was “Just Another Rainy Day.”
C. In the book “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing,” my favorite chapter was Just Another Rainy Day.
I read a great article in USA Today.
I read a great article in “USA Today”
I read a great article in USA today.
Remember to slowly release the students into independent

10. Step 1 Identify if it is a long document or short document Step 2: If short document use quotations, if long document underline or use italics Step 3: Capitalize first word, last word, nouns, verbs, and adjectives
My favorite book is Sarah Plain and Tall because it takes place in the past.
My favorite book is “Sarah Plain and Tall” because it takes place in the past.
My favorite book is Sarah Plain and Tall because it takes place in the past.
My favorite book is Sarah Plain and tall because it takes place in the past.
My favorite book is Sarah Plain And Tall because it takes place in the past.