Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Put 'Em on a Talk Show
In this lesson, learners will write a script for a talk show, based on character traits from fairy tale stories. Scripts will be rehearsed, costumed, and performed in front of the class.
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Literautas: Reasons for Using Dialogue in a Story
Learn about six reasons that a writer should use dialogue in a story.
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Sonic Storytelling: Writing Method for Radio Drama
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dialogue With Student Created Characters
This lesson is designed to help students 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...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Online Writer's Choice: Punctuating Dialogue
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting: Dialogue
A six-slide presentation introducing how to have a dialogue in order to brainstorm ideas during the prewriting stage of the writing process.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing Engaging Stories With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
Use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.
Education.com
Education.com: W.3.3 B Worksheets: Use Dialogue and Descriptions
[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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.3.b: Use Dialogue and Descriptions of Actions
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Fracturing Tales Through Titles
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Just the Facts, Ma'am: Voice an Original Mystery
In this lesson, students will create a narrative with dialogue based on a particular voice.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Literature Circles With Primary Students, Self Selected Reading
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.
Yale University
Yale University: Elements of the Short Story
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What Got Stolen?
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension
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 instructional activity...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Keeping a Journal
Explore the world of journal writing with this valuable lesson plan filled with suggestions.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Creative Activities
Channel your creativity with these writing activities.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Puns and Punctuation
For this lesson, young scholars 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 writer's...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: 3 Voice Storyboard: Feeling [Pdf]
In this PDF lesson, young scholars 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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/conrast: 5 Voice Storyboard: Perspect [Pdf]
In this PDF lesson students 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 opposed,...
Caro Clarke
Caro Clarke: Writing Advice: Beginner's Four Faults
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adding Words to Quotations
This slideshow lesson explainsr how to alter a quotation by adding or changing words. Numerous examples are provided.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Studying Character in Drama
Online lesson that allows students to study and follow a Shakespearean character throughout a play, analyzing their actions, traits and dialogue as clues to characterization.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Quotation Marks
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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