Punctuation in a story

Wala: Punctuation in a dialogue

L.O: To identify speech marks in a dialogue.

What are the different punctuations you know? 

Name them.

Here they are.

commas,full stop,speech marks,exclamation and question marks.

Identify some punctuation on this fable.

What is a dialogue?

Any response?

What a dialogue is.

A dialogue is conversation between two characters.

How do we punctuate a dialogue.

Put Speech marks before and after the spoken words.
Capitalise the first word inside the speech marks.
Use a comma after any words introducing the speech.
Start a new line when a new person speaks.

Add the missing speech marks to these sentences.

1.You cant see where you are going,laughed mother crab.
2.Baby crab asked,will you teach me to walk straight?
3.I am better than starfish,who can,t walk at all!protested Baby crab.
4.Baby crab poked starfish and demanded,How do you mve around?
5.Oh dear!cried Mother crab.How will I manage to teach you?

Extention.

Rewrite this paragraph into a dialogue.

I don't need to walk smiled Starfish.Why not asked Baby crab.Starfish wriggled and giggled saying I don't need to go anywhere so I wait for the waves to take me.