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Write Some Dialogue

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students write dialogue. For 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...
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Julian Secret Agent: Commas

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Your class participates in a variety of shared reading and writing activities related to the book Julian Secret Agent. They complete a class story chart, examine how to use punctuation for dialogue, write an alternative...
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Quotations and Capitals

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read a story in which they identify the instances of dialogue. As a class, they determine how to tell someone is talking in their reading and use different sentences to identify where the quotations marks should be placed. To...
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Using Quotes as "Thought Shots"

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore how to use quotation marks in writing to add dialogue to a paper. In groups, students observe pictures and add quotations to them. Students follow rules of punctuation and capitalization as they proofread and edit each...
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Dazzling Dialogue

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students practice the proper use of Capital letters in quotes and how to use quotation marks.  In this dazzling dialogue activity, students write a draft of a script using dialogue and capitalization.  Students complete dialogue for a...
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Reported Speech 5

For Students 7th - 9th
In this reported speech worksheet, students read the example dialogue sentences and make a statement to report what was said. There are 15 exercises.
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Reported Speech 4

For Students 5th - 7th
For this online grammar worksheet, students read the example quotations and write a statement sentence reporting what was said. Students complete 15 exercises.
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Transparency

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discover proper use of quotation marks. They examine conversations between characters in comics and magazines. In pairs, 8th graders punctuate sentences correctly. They create a story, with dialogue, involving people in a...
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Writer's Workshop Writing Dialogue: Night of the Twisters

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students learn proper punctuation and sentence variety as they write a dialogue pertaining to events in Night of the Twisters. Students read the information about how to use quotation marks, then write their...
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Direct and Reported Speech

For Students 4th - 5th
Goldilocks and the Three Bears provide the text for a direct and reported speech instructional activity. Pupils decide whether the model sentences are direct or reported speech and highlight the differences in the sentence pairs. They...
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A Pilgrim Conversation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils place quotation marks in the correct place in a conversation. They review correct placement with students copying down sentences from the board. They write their own conversation between two pilgrims to complete the lesson plan.
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Punctuating Dialogue

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students punctuate sentences containing dialogue. In this dialogue lesson plan students solve and create sentence puzzles which are sentences cut into individual parts.
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Let's Just Dialogue

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen to the story, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish" and complete a cartoon drawing containing dialogue that shows an understanding of conventions used in dialogue by using the bubble form.
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Heart to Heart

For Teachers 5th
Candy conversation hearts make writing a sweet pastime. Fifth graders write narratives demonstrating a complete thought and correct punctuation. The trick here is that they must use the words on five candy conversation hearts as part of...
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Practice With Commas

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
The instructions say to put commas where they belong, and that is just what your class will do as they practice comma placement and use. There are 20 sentences in desperate need of commas and four extensions exercises where comma use is...
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What Did You Say?

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Punctuating dialogue properly is a skill that your young pupils will use for years to come. Allow individuals the chance to practice adding commas and quotation marks to sentences that are lacking punctuation. The activity here includes...
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Reported Speech for Orders

For Students 6th - 7th
In this reported speech worksheet, learners read the examples of orders and convert them into reported speech. Students change 14 online exercises.
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Pretest and Present Project

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students build their own city. In this grammar lesson, students view ads for popular vacation spots. Students take note of the correct capitalization in the ads. Students then create their own city and make a travel brochure for that...
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Punctuating Dialogue

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use narrative strategies (e.g., dialogue and action) to develop characters, plot and setting and maintain a consistent point of view. They create and accurately punctuate dialogue necessary to help the plot progress,...
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Yo! Conventions!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners get in groups, take a list of words, put them into story form, and punctuate them. They present their story to the class and consider how punctuation changes meaning. Great excercise. 
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Commas in a Series; Making an Advertisement!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Language arts learners practice using commas in a series while designing their own advertisement! This creative assignment calls for learners to create their own visual advertisement describing a product of their choice. Their poster...
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The Wind Blew

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students look at a picture book and observe what the facial expressions show.  In this character's feelings instructional activity, students write what they think the character might be saying on each page and the punctuation they use. ...
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The Magic Apple

For Teachers 1st
First graders read The Magic Apple and complete interdisciplinary activities related to the book.  In this folktale instructional activity, 1st graders answer comprehension questions, recognize and record short /i/  sound words and...
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Class Vacation Book

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students, utilizing technology and its avenues, create, produce and publish a variety of works. They generate a bubble map to brainstorm words that describe a specific vacation spot as well as create a pattern book with graphics about...

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