Capitalizing and Punctuating Titles

Dynamic Instruction: Punctuating Titles Lesson & Quiz

Be sure to have you punctuation titles notes out before starting this quiz!!!!

Multiple Choice

According to the video on this quiz, how do we italicize when handwriting????

• underline

• "quotes"

• "both" underline and quotes

• "italicize and quotes"

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Multiple Choice

Which title is written correctly? (book)

Attention to detail!!!!!!

• The Cat In The Hat

• "The Cat in the Hat"

• The Cat in the Hat

Multiple Choice

Which title is written correctly? (newspaper)

Attention to detail!!!!!

• The Atlanta Journal Constitution

• "The Atlanta Journal Constitution"

• The Atlanta journal Constitution

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Multiple Choice

Which title is written correctly? (movie)

• Singin' in the Rain

• Singin' In The Rain

• "Singin' in the Rain"

Multiple Choice

Which title is written correctly? (short story)

• A Sound of Thunder

• A Sound of Thunder

• "A Sound of Thunder"

Multiple Choice

The Washington Post (newspaper)

• Underline/italics

• Quotation marks

Multiple Choice

The Red and Black (newspaper/website)

• Underline/Italics

• Quotation Marks

Multiple Choice

The Road Not Taken (poem)

• Underline/Italics)

• Quotation Marks

Multiple Choice

The Long and Winding Road (song)

• Quotation Marks

• Underline/Italics

Multiple Choice

According to the flipbook notes, which words in a title do we not capitalize?

• unimportant words

• prepositions not in the front or end of the title

• conjunctions not in the front or end of the title

• all answers are correct

Multiple Select

The American Scholar is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

• The American Scholar

• The American Scholar

• "The American Scholar"

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences is written correctly?

• Casey Jones is remembered for his heroic act aboard the Cannonball Express. Because of his heroism, he was the only person killed in the 1900 train collision.

• The last album in which all four Beatles participated was "Abbey Road".

• While I sat in the waiting room, I read an article about Justin Timberlake in "Us Weekly".

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences is written correctly?

• The name of my poem is "Peanut Butter and Jelly".

• Amelia Earhart named her airplanes. The one she was flying when she disappeared was named "The Canary".

• My favorite book by Patricia Polacco is "Thank You, Mr. Falker".

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences is written correctly?

• If you're writing a report about the "Titanic", you should read the book Titanic: The Story About the Unsinkable Ship.

• The title of my report is going to be The Titanic's Dreadful Demise.

• Since you like reading books about the Titanic, I highly recommend I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences is written correctly?

• Jacqueline Davies, the author of "The Lemonade War", made the title of each chapter an economic term. Following each title is a definition.

• For example, the title of the third chapter is Joint Venture.

• Let me know when you finish reading the chapter called "Negotiation", because I want to discuss it with you.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences is written correctly?

• Columbus's three ships were named Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.

• The "Santa Maria" sunk near Haiti in 1492.

• There is a very interesting children's book about Columbus called "Christopher Columbus: What You Didn't Know About History".

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences is written correctly?

• My dad writes editorials for our local newspaper, "The Omaha World-Herald".

• He recently wrote an editorial entitled "Heroes Among Us".

• My favorite part of the newspaper is the "sports section".

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences is written correctly?

• The concert ended with every student returning to the stage to sing Stand by Me together.

• "Stand by Me" is also the name of a movie.

• The song "Stand by Me" was written by Ben E. King in 1961.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences is written correctly?

• Ferris Bueller's Day Off was a popular film in the 1980's.

• My high school was used to film parts of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

• The name of my high school is "El Camino Real Charter High School".

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences is written correctly?

• My mom wasn't happy when she discovered that I cut apart her new Good Housekeeping magazine to create my collage.

• In my defense, I thought she had already read all of the "article".

• Now I have to go to the store and buy her a new issue of "Good Housekeeping".

Multiple Choice

Which of the following literary works should be written in quotation marks?

• chapter titles

• play titles

• movie titles

Multiple Choice

Which of the following literary works should be written in quotation marks?

• chapter titles

• play titles

• movie titles