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Teach the rules of punctuating direct speech in texts with an interactive teaching presentation

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How Do You Punctuate Direct Speech? Let’s Learn How!

Every year teachers worldwide battle with a common grammatical foe – the quotation mark. Teaching young writers the rules of punctuating direct speech is no simple task. Students won’t learn the material from worksheets alone. They need to ‘see’ the punctuation rules in action within texts! 

We’ve developed another tool for your teacher toolbox–an interactive teaching presentation that specifically addresses direct speech punctuation.

Through this teaching presentation, your students will begin to understand how to use commas and quotation marks to indicate direct speech and quotations in a text.

Practice Applying Direct Speech Punctuation

This presentation works best as an introduction to direct speech punctuation.

This resource uses varied types of sentences—character dialogue and direct quotations from simulated non-fiction texts so that students can practice with both types of direct speech. This resource also requires that students identify sentences with proper use of quotation marks and commas to mark speech.

Scaffolding + Extension Tips 

• Challenge students who already understand the concept to try one of our handy Direct Speech Task Cards.
• Support students who need help understanding the concepts by providing additional thinking time during instruction or a visual reference, such as a quotation marks poster, punctuation mark guide, or speech marks anchor chart, to remind them of their punctuation rules.  

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This resource was created by Jennifer Hall, a teacher in North Carolina and a Teach Starter Collaborator. 

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Have your class practice their punctuation by studying direct speech.  A rather convoluted but fun way to explain speech marks is explained, using sheep, and punctuation marks to represent their pen. Your class will see how each word is contained using punctuation marks and will then practice the skills with more sentences.  The concept of new speaker, new line is reinforced and you can practice further using any suggestions from your class to keep their interest.

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Direct speech: inverted commas

I can identify inverted commas in a speech sentence.

Lesson details

Key learning points.

• Writers can use speech sentences to show a character speaking in a text.
• If a character speaks, the writer must signal this with specific punctuation.
• Inverted commas are the punctuation marks that signal direct speech to the reader.
• Direct speech is the term used for a character speaking out loud in a text.
• Direct speech helps us learn more about characters in a text.

Common misconception

Pupils may use the informal term 'speech marks'.

'speech marks' is a term that signals the same thing as 'inverted commas' i.e. the dialogue in a sentence, but it is better to use the grammatical term 'inverted commas'.

Direct speech - the term used for a character speaking out loud in a text

Inverted commas - a pair of punctuation marks that signal direct speech to the reader

Signal - show or direct attention to

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Punctuating Direct Speech Learning Objective: To understand how to punctuate direct speech.

My leg really hurts! • Direct speech is the words that people actually say.

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My leg really hurts! hurts My really leg Turning Speech Bubbles to Text. • If there is no punctuation mark on the last word then the sheep can escape

My leg really hurts! hurts! My really leg Turning Speech Bubbles to Text. Now the sheep are safe and won’t escape!

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Punctuating Direct Speech Lesson

Subject: English

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Worksheet/Activity

Last updated

17 March 2019

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