Dialogue Introduction

Dialogue is

• a conversation between characters

• when the narrator tells you what is happening in the story

• a verb

• a quote from the text

Put _____ around a speaker's (character's) exact words.

• commas

• quotation marks

• speaker tags

• semicolon

Joe exclaimed, "I can't feel my toes!"

Which part is the speaker tag?

• Joe exclaimed,

• "I can't feel my toes!"

"I can't believe it!" yelled Sophie.

Which part is the character speech?

• "I can't believe it!"

• yelled Sophie.

As she turned to Joe, Sophie whispered, "Take your toes out of the ice water."

Which part is the dialogue tag?

• As she turned to Joe,

• Sophie whispered,

• "Take your toes out of the ice water."

"Thank you," Joe replied as he pulled his foot out of the water.

Which part is the directly stated stated by the character?

• "Thank you,"

• Joe replied

• as he pulled his foot out of the water.

"Ouch! The dog bit me!" Suzie _____

• cried

• whispered

• giggled

• commanded

Her mother _______, "Shh, don't wake up the baby."

• chimed

• laughed

• stuttered

• whispered

Conventions (punctuation marks) are important in dialogue.

• True

• False

Choose all the conventions you must consider when writing with dialogue.

• quotation marks,

  end marks, and

  commas

• quotation marks,

  end marks,

  commas, and

  capital letters

• quotation marks only

• quotation marks and

  commas