How to Write Dialogue

What is a character doing with the words in one of these?

• Thinking

• Speaking

• Sleeping

• Motioning

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

What are these called?

• Question Marks

• Comma

• Quotation Marks

• Semicolon

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Put __________________ around a speaker's exact words.

• commas

• speaker tags

• quotation marks

• An indent

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Dialogue is

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Which of the following is correct? 

• Jane said, "I really want to eat Cheetos."
• Jane said, "I really want to eat Cheetos".
• Jane said "I really want to eat Cheetos."
• Jane said, "I really want to eat Cheetos,"

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

Is this sentence sentence written correctly?

Chad told me, "the movie begins at 7:30."

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

"Help me __ " screamed Blake.

• .
• "
• !
• ?

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B

Cliff said, "Fifth grade is our best year yet!"

• Correct
• Incorrect

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

When the speaker changes, always indent and start a new paragraph.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Place a _____________ before a quotation.

• period
• exclamation point
• quotation mark
• comma

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3