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Objectives
To use speech marks to punctuate direct speech.
Resources
Nelson Grammar Pupil Book 3 | Coloured pens
Today's Lesson
Spelling
Review spelling words to prepare for your test at the end of the week. You may wish to use Spelling Tilesand Sorting Segments on Spelling Frame in order to learn this week's words.
Main Activity
Practise spelling words for a test in Lesson 5. Practise saying and writing these words in sentences throughout the week.
Today, we will still be focusing on speech and dialogue within the story. Remind your student of the speech bubbles work he or she did yesterday, and how the speech bubbles tell us that the character is speaking. Discuss why, in a story, it is good to read characters speaking. It is so the reader can feel a bit closer to the character; it helps us get to know the character very well as, if we didn’t read what they were speaking, we would only be watching them through the story teller. We can get to know their thoughts and their opinions so well, whenever we hear them speak.
So, today, we will focus on the important skill of letting the reader know when the character is speaking by adding speech marks / inverted commas to some speech from the story.
Grammar check
Today's Grammar check will help refresh skills in the use of speech marks.
Watch the following video that will support your student in recalling their knowledge of the key features of direct speech.
Turn to page 24 in Nelson Grammar Pupil Book 3 - Unit 10 Sentences. Work through the information in the purple box at the top of the page. Note that this activity was completed in Part 1, so it is not necessary to complete the tasks on pages 24 and 25 unless you feel your student would benefit from a deeper refresher before moving on below.
Access the Dialogue resource, and explain that the green text shows us correct speech marks, and the red text is for us to correct. Spend some time exploring the speech marks in the green text - circle them, and underline the actual speech that is being said. Read the narrative to your student, and ask them to say the dialogue at the correct parts. Then, swap over.
📄 READ & COMPLETE - Dialogue resource
Finally, correct the red text by asking your student to add the speech marks correctly (answers are included in the resource).