Bringing Your Writing to Life: Adding Dialogue

This video tutorial teaches how to enhance stories by adding dialogue. It begins with a review of the five steps in the writing process: understanding the prompt, brainstorming, planning, writing, and revising. The lesson focuses on revising, particularly the use of quotation marks in dialogue. It provides steps to identify dialogue, write it down, and punctuate it correctly. An example story about a surprise in the cafeteria is used to illustrate these steps. The tutorial encourages students to create dialogue for characters and emphasizes the importance of proper punctuation.

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