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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Dialogue in Context

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach dialogue in context with mentor sentences.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Choosing Clear and Varied Dialogue Tags: A Minilesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for one 50-minute lesson 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 links to sites...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Character Clash: A Mini Lesson on Paragraphing and Dialogue

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for a minilesson 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 lessons as well as...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.3.3.b: Use Dialogue and Descriptions of Actions

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 2 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.3.b: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Inside or Outside? A Mini Lesson on Quotation Marks and More

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for a miniactivity that teaches about the proper use of quotation marks in dialogue. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tell Me About It

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be able to describe familiar items and with prompting and support provide additional details by making Flubber. Making Flubber encourages students to engage in descriptive dialogue which helps develop the ability to provide...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.