Dialogue and Quotation Marks

Dialogue and Quotation Marks

Multiple Choice

Dialogue is

• a conversation between/amongst characters
• a verb
• when the narrator tells you what is happening in a story
• boring

What are dialogue tags?

 A dialogue tag is a small phrase either before, after, or in between the actual dialogue itself.

Where can you find dialogue tags?

Dialogue tags are found in three different places: before, after, or in the middle of dialogue. Depending on where the dialogue tags are, you use different punctuation and capitalization

Multiple Select

Where can you find dialogue tags? Select all that apply:

• Only at the beginning

• The beginning of dialogue

• The middle of dialogue

• The end of dialogue

Multiple Choice

Which dialogue tag should you use for this sentence?

_____________, "Run, the house is on fire!"

• Mark whispered

• Mark laughed

• Marked screamed

Multiple Choice

Which dialogue tag should you use for this sentence?

"Why", _______________, "would you throw away my homework?"

• Mary asked

• Kathy giggled

• Susie whispered

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence with correct quotations and punctuation.

• "Hello, Jack. How are you today?" asked Jill.
• "Hello, Jack. How are you today. asked Jill.
• Hello, "Jack. "How are you today?" asked Jill.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that is correct.

• "What time does the game start? asked Nanette."
• "What time does the game start," asked Nanette.
• "What time does the game start?" asked Nanette.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that uses quotation marks correctly.

• Polly shouted, "I want a cracker!"
• Polly shouted! "I want a cracker."
• Polly shouted, "I want a cracker"!
• "Polly shouted," I want a cracker!

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence with the correct use of quotation marks and punctuation.

• The umpire yelled, Safe!

• The umpire yelled “Safe!”

• The umpire yelled, “Safe!”

• The umpire yelled Safe

Multiple Choice

Choose the correctly punctuated sentence.

• "Hi," Shelly replied, "my name is Shelly Rutt."
• Hi Shelly replied. My name is Shelly Rutt.
• "hi" Shelly replied "my name is Shelly Rutt
• Hi, Shelly replied "my name is Shelly Rutt."

Multiple Choice

Let’s find some seats suggested Marta before the theatre gets too crowded 

• "Let’s find some seats," suggested Marta, before the theatre gets too crowded.
• "Let’s find some seats," suggested Marta, "before the theatre gets too crowded." 
• It is correct.

Multiple Choice

______________ each time the speaker changes in a narrative writing.

• skip a line
• indent
• all of the above
• None of these

Open Ended

Using this picture, write a dialogue between the two puppies. You need to name your puppies. Use slides 23-25 to help.

REMEMBER YOU MUST FOLLOW THE RULES FOR WRITING DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO CHARACTERS AND ALL THE RULES FOR WRITING DIALOGUE . ( UP TO 10 POINTS AVAILABLE.)

WRITE YOUR DIALOGUE HERE: