Teaching Titles!

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Teaching Titles!

• Grade 3
• Language Arts

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Rules for Titles

• Capitalize first, last , and
• all important words
• examples of unimportant words as, a, and, it,
  is, of, to, the, in
• Underline the complete title
• Example The Wizard of Oz
• Example Bud, not Buddy

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• Now you try
• david goes to school is my favorite book.

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David Goes to School is my favorite book.
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Can you find the mistakes?
Our class read Bears in the Barn.
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Did you find the mistakes?
Our class read Bears in the Barn.
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Can you find the mistakes?
Have you read the frog principal?
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Did you find the mistakes?
Have you read The Frog Principal?
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Which title is correct?

• She read The Glass Slipper.

Junie B. Jones and meanie Jim is a funny book.
Our teacher read the story Anne of Green Gables.
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Oops, incorrect!
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Correct!
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Lets review 1. Capitalize first, last , and
all important words in a title. 2.
Underline the complete title.
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• Now, you try some!
• earthquake!
• Dear america
• Polar bears on the prowl
• helen keller