2.4.11 WW Review, Student Choice, Punctuating Dialogue

Word Work Review, Student Choice, Punctuating Dialogue

Lesson 2.4.10

Word Work: Review

Learners can:

• write sentences using words that apply recently studied suffixes and roots

Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots Review

Reading: Student Choice

Learners can:

• recall details from a nonfiction article

• use evidence from a text during a class discussion

• Real Kids, Real Stories, Real Change by Garth Sundem is a collection of nonfiction articles about ordinary teenagers who achieved extraordinary results.

• Today, we will select one of three articles from Real Kids, Real Stories, Real Change to read.

Student Choice Articles

Poll

Which article do you want to read as a class?

• Sow What You Reap

• Workers Unite!

• Ryan's Wells

• Today, we will read “Sow What You Reap,” “Workers Unite!” or “Ryan's Wells” by Garth Sundem. Your focus should be on understanding and enjoying the text. As you read, make annotations about:

  • the main idea

  • connections to the inquiry question

  • questions

  • emotional responses

  • items of interest

• Find the text on page 5 of your edio lesson for today

First Read: Student Choice

• Take the next 5 minutes to create your post on that padlet, do not leave after you post! We still have writing!

• Create a post answering the following question:

  • How does the article you read address the unit inquiry question, How do I affect other people?

  • Support your answer with at least one example from the text.

Padlet Practice

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Writing: Punctuating Dialogue

Learners can:

• identify correctly punctuated dialogue

• incorporate details and dialogue into the climax, falling action, and resolution of their narrative writing project

• Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people in a story.

• When you write with dialogue, it follows a set of rules to help make it clear who is speaking when.

• One of the most important rules is to place quotation marks around the words that are being spoken

Grammar Time!

Dialogue Rules and Examples

​Rule	Example Dialogue​
​Use double quotation marks to indicate dialogue.	​"I found a chicken."
​Put commas and periods inside the quotation marks.	“Come on, little chickie,” cooed Miguel. “There’s no time for ‘why.’ Just do it.”
​Start a new paragraph each time the speaker changes.	“Why?” “There's no time for 'why.' Just do it.”
​Use ellipses or dashes to cut off sentences.	​“Just look at it—that's all.”
​Put dialogue punctuation inside a quotation mark.	“What are we going to do with a chicken

• A speaker tag is a word or phrase that is attached to dialogue.

• A speaker tag clarifies who is speaking and provides details about their vocal tone and feelings.

• A classic speaker tag is, “He said” or “She says.”

• People use said or say as speaker tags all the time, but they can miss opportunities to add detail and share characters' emotions.

• For instance, a speaker can describe if a character whispers, shouts, mumbles, or more.

Speaker Tags

• Spend the rest of class adding dialogue into your narrative writing project, if you need more time, you can work on adding dialogue during choice time.

• Take a close look at your climax, falling action, and resolution. Notice places in which the characters can interact with each other, write down what they say, and place it in quotation marks.

• After you add dialogue, the rest of class is choice time. You can be doing iReady Reading Practice, Silent Reading, Getting help from Mrs. Massack, or working on Overdue Edio Lessons

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Time to Work