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Text Unit
Objectives
To write dialogue for characters in a story.
Resources
📄 Chapters 10, 📄 11 & 12 from Fantastic Mr Fox | 📄 Speech scenarios resource | Plain paper
Today's Lesson
Spelling
Look at the words below and do a pre-test. This means that you are checking how well your student can spell these words before you teach them. You do not need to focus on the words your student spelled correctly the first time.
Rule: Word list -years 3 and 4 -ei- to fe-
- eighth
- enough
- exercise
- experience
Practise saying and writing these words in sentences throughout the week.
Main Activity
Now that you have studied and understood the three chapters in detail, we will now focus on revisiting using speech within story writing.
Access the speech resource and work through the four scenarios together. This activity will enable your student to practise saying some dialogue out loud, in the role of the characters. Encourage your student to explore what might be said by each character, and what each character might do, in as much detail as possible.
Then, on plain paper, choose a scenario, and draw a speech bubble for each character who speaks. Ask your student to write inside the speech bubble, what the character is saying. Emphasise that we do not use speech marks / inverted commas inside speech bubbles, as the bubble itself is the symbol that there is speech.
If needed, repeat this task with another scenario, writing the character’s dialogue inside the speech bubbles.