• Quotation marks in direct quotations, including broken quotations
• Quotation marks to indicate titles and end marks with quotes

• Underlining to indicate titles

AHSGE Standard IV - The student will use correct capitalization and punctuation.
 

Character Clash: A Mini-Lesson on Paragraphing and Dialogue
Teaching students how to use quotation marks in dialog

Word Order for Quotations
Ideas for using quotation marks
 

University of West Florida Writing Lab  Italics vs. Quotation Marks

Quotation Marks  Mini Lesson

Quotation Mark Worksheet Easy exercise

Suggestions for English Language Learners

ESL Ideas          (B=Beginning; I=Intermediate; T=Transitional)
(B) Students highlight quotation marks in a newspaper article or other written material. 
(B) Students highlight italicized words in a newspaper article or other written material. 
(B, I) Students use word cards to create sentences and correct punctuation.
(I, T) Students keep a writing log for which the teacher provides sentences that are incorrect which students then correct independently or with peers.
 

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