If you're looking for a way to teach punctuating dialogue, it's hard to beat Lee's "Teaching Direct Speech Punctuation using the iPhone text messaging!", which he published nearly five (FIVE) years ago.
Recently, I've been reading books in the following series to both my own children and my class. As someone reading a book out loud, the thing I like it is the way the books talk to their audience and invite them into the narrative.
The reason they're appearing in this post is that they're written as direct speech, with the speech in speech bubbles.
Ideas:
- children look at page or pages in a book and convert the speech bubble(s) into written, punctuated dialogue.
- children create a dialogue between themselves and the book. The books get the reader to think or intimate a response. These could be written down.
- children could write the narrative of the story. Still writing dialogue, but adding actions and descriptions too.
Just a few ideas to get you started...
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