Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quotation Marks
Use this site to learn how to properly use quotation marks in stories, poems, articles, and speeches.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Quotation Marks Exercise
Practice using quotation marks and italics in this brief exercise. Check your answers when you're done.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Quotation Marks in Titles
Rules and examples for using quotation marks correctly when writing titles of short works.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Strategies for Editing: Practice 3
A learning module that teaches students about editing their writing in four mini-lessons: Introduction, Avoiding Coma Catastrophes, Placing Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Em Dashes Like a Pro, and and Putting It All Together.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Punctuation
A learning module that teaches students about the rules of punctuation in six mini-lessons: Introduction, Terminal Punctuation, The Common Comma, Apostrophes and Quotation Marks, Semicolons, and Your Turn.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar Ii and Technical Writing: Review
This lesson focuses on capitalization and punctuation including links to practices and quizzes on capitalization, commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Writing
This slideshow lesson focuses on how to incorporate quotes into writing. It explains the rules for using quotation marks, discusses how writers use quotation marks, and explains quotation etiquette with examples of single quotations and...
Get It Write
Get It Write: Punctuating With Quotation Marks
Punctuating direct address can be tricky. This tutorial gives clear examples and explanations of where to place the closing puncution, depending on the meaning of the sentence. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation
Notes demonstrating how to correctly write and punctuate a divided quotation. Notes can be read and/or listened to and examples are provided.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation
This page provides links to punctuation reference materials for apostrophes, colons, dashes, commas, parentheses, italics, quotation marks, and semicolons.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Punctuation
This site offers a list of links to punctuation exercises/quizzes including commas, semicolons, quotation marks, apostrophes, and italics.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Brief Overview of Punctuation
This lesson provides a brief overview of semicolons, colons, parentheses, dashes, quotation marks, italics, and underlining.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Quotation Marks
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the basic conventions of speech punctuation in reading and writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Punctuating Dialogue
This slideshow focuses on how to punctuate dialogue; it explains the rules for quotation mark and comma use in direct speech, when switching speakers, and when a single speaker speaks in multiple, continuous paragraphs. It provides...
ACT360 Media
Writing Tips: Sentence Builder: Quotation Marks
A brief description of the rules, usage, and examples of "quotation marks" in English punctuation.
PBS
Pbs: Mark Twain's Interactive Scrapbook
At this website, venture through the chapters of an interactive scrapbook detailing the life and writings of Samuel Clemens, or Mark Twain. Includes several photographs, quotes, and audio clips. This scrapbook is part of a larger PBS...
ACT360 Media
Writing Tips: Sentence Builder Punctuation
A list of the major elements of punctuation in the English language, including the period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, apostrophe, quotation marks, colon, semicolon, dash, and hyphen. Provides a brief description and the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Short Quotation Punctuation
This slideshow tutorial focuses on punctuating short quotations; it defines short quotations, explains how to smoothly integrate quotations into your writing, and gives the rules for punctuating them according to method of integration.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Incorporating Quotes in Your Writing
Notes, a fourteen-slide presentation, and two videos teaching students how to incorporate and punctuate quotes into various sections of an essay and how to embed quotes within a paragraph.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that uses embedded quotations to provide evidence in your response to an expository or a literary text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 3 (English I Writing)
Proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
Other
Twainquotes.com:mark Twain Quotes and Newspaper Articles
This Barbara Schmidt site provides hundreds of quotes and original articles about Twain's life, writings, and enduring influence that have appeared in newspapers over the years. There are also special features about Twain and links to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Speech Marks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the basic conventions of speech punctuation.
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Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "The Prince and the Pauper" Teacher Guide [Pdf]
Opens with valuable background information for "The Prince and the Pauper" as well as explanations of format. Features chapter-by-chapter summaries, historical notes, probing questions, vocabulary, and quotations. Also includes language,...