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- Easel Assessment
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FREE Punctuating Dialogue PowerPoint! Improve punctuation in writing by using quotation marks correctly, a skill assessed on standardized tests. Show students how to use quotation marks in dialogue to follow accepted usage and mechanics standards. Explains the correct way to punctuate dialogue, how to create new paragraphs when changing speakers, and hints for writing better dialogues. Explains split quotations, capitalization, commas, question marks, exclamation points, and periods. Also includes a slide about how speech bubbles do not need quotations. Helpful for understanding where to place punctuation and includes writing practice activities (with a digital and print writing paper option), a printable reference sheet, and 5 multiple choice review questions. Good for reviewing for state tests. Great for Zoom or videoconferencing in a virtual classroom, too. Compatible with Microsoft OneDrive. Editable for your classroom use. Includes a self-grading 5-question Easel Assessment. 32 slides.
If you would like the Google Slides version ready to go, you can get it here:
FREE Using Quotation Marks: Dialogue Punctuation Google Slides Distance Learning
Supports Common Core State Standards!
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.2b Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text.
A great activity to do with this PowerPoint is to have the kids write their own dialogues. I cut out of magazines some interesting pictures of all kinds of different people interacting. I glued them on cardstock, with the words Who? What? Where? When? and Why? written on each card, and laminated them. I passed the cards out, and students had to imagine what the people were saying to each other in the pictures, and then write the dialogue, using correct punctuation. They also had to later incorporate the dialogue into a short story that answered the five W questions. The kids enjoyed this activity and got very creative with their stories! Enjoy the freebie!
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