Georgia 5.L.GC.1.41
The Standard
Mechanics: Use conventional capitalization and underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works. (Master)
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 identify the type of work and choose the matching title treatment. They capitalize the first, last, and main words. They use quotation marks for shorter works and italics when typing or underlining by hand for longer works.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a mixed list, a student correctly capitalizes and marks titles based on the type of work. The student consistently uses italics or underlining for longer works and quotation marks for shorter works.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may capitalize every word, including short articles, conjunctions, and prepositions. They may put book titles in quotation marks, italicize poem titles, or underline and italicize the same title.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask students to rewrite these handwritten titles correctly: the book charlotte's web and the poem the road not taken.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs title cards for books, poems, songs, and articles; students sort them, then format each title on mini whiteboards.
Post the prompt, Why would a book title and a poem title be marked differently? Students write and format one example of each.
Play Title Fix-It: teams correct capitalization and punctuation on projected title cards, earning one point for each fully correct revision.
Have students create a three-item library display label featuring a novel, a poem, and an article with correctly formatted titles.
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