Rules of Thumb for Faulty Capitalization, Italics, Hyphens, and Quotation Marks

Tired of reminding your class about what punctuation and formatting to use for books, plays, stories, poems, songs, etc.? Ask them to practice with the eight sentences provided here. Each sentence has at least one item to underline,...

When do you need quotation marks? Do they go inside of a period or outside? Hone your class's punctuation skills with this four-page practice packet. Page one lists several rules and examples, while the last three pages contain practice...

The question marks, periods, commas, and quotation marks are missing. It's up to your class to fix each of six statements by adding proper punctuation. Early finishers are encouraged to compose properly punctuated sentences of their own.

It's so hard to remember how to punctuate titles! Give your class this practice packet to help them remember. On the first page, learners review the rules for punctuating the titles of short stories, monologues, commercials, etc. Then,...

Review where quotation marks belong and what they are used to indicate. From direct speech to in-text citations, young writers will find this worksheet quite useful. Several exercises at the bottom, along with a key, give learners...

When do you need quotation marks? Using the well-known story Cinderella, this learning exercise requires learners to reshape sentences in order to use quotation marks. Ten sentences need structuring, and there's a simple example to...

What are the rules for punctuating titles? Review the rules at the top of the first page before having your class complete the practice opportunities posted below. There are two parts: in the first, learners punctuate titles as...

It's so hard to remember when to underline, italicize, or use quotation marks to reference a title! Great for the beginning of a school year, this presentation offers a quick review over seven slides. A short practice opportunity is...

Designed for a 10th grade classroom, all high schoolers will benefit from this well-organized, comprehensive guide to punctuating titles. Not only are the rules clearly laid out, but examples follow as well. The last two pages house four...

According to A.A. Milne, "[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself." However, as part of a larger series of handouts discusses, quotations also have the ability to enhance a piece of...