Dialogue Check

What needs to be done to the following sentence to make it correct?

"Do we have a Team Meeting today" asked Mr. Jones.

• Comma after "today"

• Question mark after "today"

• Question mark after "Mr. Jones"

• Period after "today"

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B

What needs to be done to the following sentence to make it correct?

Mrs. Morris replied "Yes, it is scheduled during last block."

• Comma after "yes"

• Question mark after "block"

• Period after "replied"

• Comma after "replied"

What needs to be done to the following sentence to make it correct?

"I cannot wait to plan this year's Valentine's Day outfit" Mrs. Swanson shouted.

• Comma after "outfir"

• Exclamation point after "shouted"

• Exclamation point after "outfit"

• Period after "outfit"

What needs to be done to the following sentence to make it correct? Choose all that apply.

"What will you dress as," Mrs. Langmead asked?

• Change the comma to a question mark after "as"

• Change the comma to a period after "as"

• Change the question mark to an exclamation point after "asked"

• Change the question mark to a period after "asked"

Match the following dialogue tags to the speech utterance.

• "Goooood morning, class!"

• Ms. Bertelli explained,

• "It is disappointing no one did their HW."

• Mr. Cat asked,

• "We will be reviewing rotations and transitions today."

• Mr. Pearson grumbled,

• "Who finds dialogue writing challenging?"

• Ms. Kavanagh exclaimed,

When writing dialogue and your speaker changes, what do you need to do to the following line of text?

• Skip a line

• Indent

• Bold it

• Italicize it

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

How many indentations would the following FOUR lines of dialogue need?

"Is XC practice outside today?" the 7th grader asked.

"Yes," Mr. Cooney responded. "We are going to be running the race course and tracking our times. Once we finish that, we will do some core and conditioning exercises. Then we will end practice with a game of manhunt.

"I hope I don't pass out in the woods," the 7th grader responded.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Tags

CCSS.L.8.2A

The following dialogue is out of order. Reorder it.

Hint: Pay attention to the punctuation and capitalization. They are your clues!

• the student confidently said to themselves.

• "Dialogue is easy,"

• "That is wonderful to hear!"

• their teacher responded enthusiastically.

• "I know exactly how to punctuate it."

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

What do quotation marks look like?

Draw beginning and ending quotation marks.

Which sentence is correct?

• "A little bit of both," I replied "because I need to find a birthday gift for my cousin, but I really want to check out the sales."

• "A little bit of both," I replied, "Because I need to find a birthday gift for my cousin, but I really want to check out the sales."

• "A little bit of both," I replied. "Because I need to find a birthday gift for my cousin, but I really want to check out the sales."

• "A little bit of both," I replied, "because I need to find a birthday gift for my cousin, but I really want to check out the sales."