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Sonic Storytelling: Writing Method for Radio Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article is filled with tips for beginners on how to write radio drama sketches or adapt stories into radio plays. You'll see examples of sketches as well as tips on writing well. W.9-10.3, 3a, 3b Narratives, W.11-12.3, 3a, 3b...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dialogue With Student Created Characters

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This lesson plan 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...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Online Writer's Choice: Punctuating Dialogue

For Students 7th Standards
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.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Prewriting: Dialogue

For Students 9th - 10th
A six-slide presentation introducing how to have a dialogue in order to brainstorm ideas during the prewriting stage of the writing process.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Engaging Stories With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.
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Education.com

Education.com: W.3.3 B Worksheets: Use Dialogue and Descriptions

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.3.3B: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...
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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.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Fracturing Tales Through Titles

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Students read The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob Hartman and then write their own fractured fairy tales using first-person point of view and dialogue. Teacher and student instructions are provided along with student writing samples, an...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Just the Facts, Ma'am: Voice an Original Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will create a narrative with dialogue based on a particular voice.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Literature Circles With Primary Students, Self Selected Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students respond to self-selected books in journals and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
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Yale University

Yale University: Elements of the Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit from the Yale University on elements of the short story is designed to develop student comprehension skills, particularly making inferences and generalizing. It also involves students in reading a number of short stories to...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: What Got Stolen?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
After reading Grandpa's Teeth by Rod Clement, the writer will plan a scene from a story where a character confronts another character about something that has been stolen. Descriptive details need to take precedence in this scene, as...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that...
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Keeping a Journal

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the world of journal writing with this valuable lesson plan filled with suggestions.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Creative Activities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Channel your creativity with these writing activities.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Puns and Punctuation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this instructional activity, students will examine some Tom Swiftie dialogue puns, paying special attention to their punctuation. First in groups and then as individuals, students will create their own Tom Swiftie puns for their...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: 3 Voice Storyboard: Feeling [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this PDF lesson, students study topics on which people might have differing feelings; they then create three dialogue bubbles that represent three different viewpoints: one that loves the topic, one that dislikes it, and one with a...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/conrast: 5 Voice Storyboard: Perspect [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this PDF lesson young scholars study a topic on which people tend to have differing opinions; they create five dialogue bubbles that would represent five different viewpoints: one in complete support of the topic, one completely...
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Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Writing Advice: Beginner's Four Faults

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a personal site from Caro Clarke. The third installment in this series looks at the four major mistakes made by beginning authors. The main idea of this article is that the author needs to be able to combine dialogue with...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Adding Words to Quotations

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson explainsr how to alter a quotation by adding or changing words. Numerous examples are provided.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Studying Character in Drama

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Online lesson that allows learners to study and follow a Shakespearean character throughout a play, analyzing their actions, traits and dialogue as clues to characterization.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Quotation Marks

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how to use quotation marks correctly to quote poetry, prose, and long and short quotes. Also, find guidelines on using quotation marks when writing dialogue and when using other punctuation.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Analyzing Gender Roles Through Dialogue

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan deals with "stereotyped gender expectations" and the presence of gender roles in dialogue. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th
Notes demonstrating how to correctly write and punctuate a divided quotation. Notes can be read and/or listened to and examples are provided.

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