Italics are a special type of font that makes print look a bit like cursive. Italics look like this – and we get the print to look like this by clicking on the slanted I at the top of your word processing page.
Always write a book title in italics.
We are reading Frankenstein in English class this year.
I love Mark Twain’s book Tom Sawyer about life along the Mississippi River.
My favorite book as a child was The Velveteen Rabbit.
Use italics whenever you write a book title.
▶It’s your turn. Which words in this sentence need to be written in italics? My teacher likes the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Did you figure it out? Good for you!