Punctuating Dialogue

Dialogue is

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

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CCSS.L.5.2D

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.3.2C

Put __________________ around a speaker's exact words.

• commas
• speaker tags
• quotation marks
• An indent

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CCSS.L.4.2B

Which of the following are quotation marks?

• ?
• "
• '
• ,

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CCSS.L.4.2B

Which of the following is correct?

• 
• 
• 

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CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

Which sentence uses dialogue and punctuation correctly?

• 
• 
• 

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CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.W.4.3B

A comma should follow which word in the sentence below?

Miller whined "Are we there yet?"

• 
• 
• 

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CCSS.L.4.2B

A comma should follow which word in the sentence below?
Miller whined "Are we there yet?"

• whined
• Miller
• yet
• Are

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CCSS.L.4.2B

_______________ the first word of a quotation and first word of each sentence.

• Indent
• Capitalize
• Underline
• Delete

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CCSS.L.4.2A

_______________ the first word of a quotation and first word of each sentence.

• Indent
• Capitalize
• Underline
• Delete

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CCSS.L.4.2A

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!

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CCSS.L.4.2B