Conventions Lesson: Punctuating Titles
Punctuating Titles
- When punctuating titles, all important words begin with a capital letter.
o Do not capitalize articles or prepositions unless they are the first word in the title.
o Examples:
▪ The Catcher in the Rye
▪ “The Road Less Traveled”
▪ Night
- When you are referring to a work, short works get quotation marks.
o Includes poems, individual TV episodes, songs, articles, etc.
o Examples:
▪ My favorite poem is “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes.
▪ I love to sing “Happy Birthday” to students.
- When you are referring to a work, lengthy works get underlined when handwriting, italicized when typing.
o Includes novels, magazine names, newspaper names, album titles, movies, plays, websites, etc.
o Examples:
▪ This article is from .
▪ We are all reading The Tao of Pooh right now.
* On the back of this sheet, write five sentences, each with a title that is correctly punctuated. Use short and long works!*
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