Georgia 4.L.GC.1.41
The Standard
Mechanics: Use conventional capitalization and underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works. (Continue)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students write titles with standard capitalization. They use italics or underlining for longer works and quotation marks for shorter works such as poems, songs, and articles.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students capitalize the main words in titles and choose the correct title format. They use italics or underlining for longer works and quotation marks for shorter works.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may capitalize every word in a title, including short articles and prepositions. They may use quotation marks for books or italicize short works such as poems and songs.
How to Assess It
- Give students four titles: a novel, poem, movie, and article. Ask them to rewrite each with correct capitalization and either italics or quotation marks.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs title cards and category mats, then have them sort books, movies, poems, songs, and articles by the needed title format.
Ask students to explain why a novel title and a poem title are formatted differently, using one example of each.
Play Title Fix-It by displaying incorrectly formatted titles and awarding points when teams correct both capitalization and punctuation.
Have students examine a library catalog, streaming menu, and magazine contents page, then record how each source formats titles.
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