Contains plans for one 50-minute instructional activity that teaches about using dialogue tags like "he said" or "she answered." In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to PDF handouts and...

A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach dialogue in context with mentor sentences.

In this lesson, writing partners work together to develop a plot and characters. The lesson emphasizes the use of dialogue to develop the characters and plot of the story.

A collection of primary source documents obtained from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Romanian archives on efforts to revive the inter-Korean dialogue and to begin a trilateral dialogue between the U.S., South Korea, and North...

View Plato's dialogues organized into a system of seven tetralogies - meaning that each is composed of four dialogues or discourses. Includes links for further information on each. Great starting place for learning more about Plato and...

A good site for teachers and writers looking to write for children, or teach children how to write dialogue. Includes tips and guidelines.

An eleven-part learning module with links to websites and texts to use while learning how to write and punctuate dialogue.

This slideshow focuses on how to punctuate dialogue; it explains the rules for quotation mark and comma use in direct speech, when switching speakers, and when a single speaker speaks in multiple, continuous paragraphs. It provides...

Contains plans for a miniinstructional activity that teaches about proper dialogue format while writing, specifically paragraphing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...

This site takes you through the process of writing dialogue in fiction, demonstrating when to omit, replace, or modify your original writing. Includes several examples and gives excellent advice for young writers. W.9-10.3b Narrative...

This is the fourteenth article in a series published with the goal of helping the new novel author. This article focuses on using dialogue to advance the action of the story. Links on the left offer other information about story writing.

This essay asserts that in interreligious dialogue, things can be learned both introspectively as well as objectively that deal with how different religions and their followers relate to one another. The author asserts that the risks...

Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.3b: Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events to show the responses of characters to situations.

In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of questioning the author, also referred to as "dialoguing" with the author. The "dialoguing with author" strategy is explained, and examples of how to use the...

Overview of the significance of Plato's works to western thought, particularly in the political arena. Provides a history of the interpretation of his work, specifically the Dialogues. Additional resources are provided for further study.

Links to printable ESL dialogues which include vocabulary words, discussion questions, and simple sentence patterns.

A six-slide presentation introducing how to have a dialogue in order to brainstorm ideas during the prewriting stage of the writing process.

Find and use commas to set off dialogue, in tag questions, for direct address, and for yes-and-no responses.

Learn about six reasons that a writer should use dialogue in a story.

This is the complete text of the novel Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope.

In this lesson students will learn how to write dialogue in a particular voice.

This lesson is designed to help learners understand the importance of character development when writing stories of their own. It also helps them understand the process authors use when writing novels and other stories. During this...

This tutorial focuses on punctuating dialogue including how to use quotation marks and commas correctly. The explanation and examples are followed by a self-grading practice exercise.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the rules of writing dialogue and allows students the opportunity to interact with the Activboard and elements of dialogue. Includes practice worksheets.