Dialogue Lesson Plans

Students explore interfaith dialogue. In this religion and ethics instructional activity, students examine the relationships among communities of faith as they design an interfaith association in their school community.

Students write a dialogue in script form to dramatize a conversation.  In this dialogue writing instructional activity, students define dialogue and analyze its influence on plot and character.  Students then practice writing dialogue for various scenarios. 

Students explore the traits of conventions and word choice. In this 6 traits of writing lesson plan, students create a class list of multiple synonyms for the word 'said' and then examine punctuation used when writing dialogue.

Students explore storytelling by completing a class writing activity. In this dialogue writing lesson, students identify the importance of characters when telling a story by reading several sample stories. Students create their own stories in class and work with classmates to add appropriate dialogue for the characters they have written.

Young scholars practice the proper use of Capital letters in quotes and how to use quotation marks.  For this dazzling dialogue lesson, students write a draft of a script using dialogue and capitalization.  Young scholars complete dialogue for a comic strip.

Sixth graders interpret historical scenes. For this colonial America lesson, 6th graders investigate multimedia sources in order to examine colonial era scenes and write dialogue to accompany them. Links are provided to Library of Congress primary sources as well as other files and documents.

Learners explore the meaning of the personal narrative "Cross-Cultural Dialogue" by Roz Wollmering. In this social studies lesson, students probe the deeper meaning of the story to see the world from another point of view. Learners use the incidents in the story to explore the concept of crossing cultures.  

Students write dialogue. In this character development lesson students use direct or indirect speech to include a confrontation between two characters in their story. Students portray the emotions of the characters in addition to what they are saying.

Fourth graders are able to explore Cades Cove a century ago and today. They are able to examine how a region's characteristics develop over time. Students are able to write and perform a dialogue comparing life in Cades Cove in the past with life in Tennessee today.

Combine visual and performing art in this creative lesson. Young filmmakers first choose a piece of art, along with music that matches the feel of the art, and write dialogue to go with the scene. They research the artist and record information on a data sheet. In the final assessment, they can rehearse and perform their skit for the class.