This two Powerpoints and Word document. The first Powerpoint will help you teach students about how to turn DRY (boring, useless) dialogue/direct speech into USEFUL (interesting, purposeful) dialogue/direct speech in your narratives/stories. It is inspired by the Sevens Steps to Writing Success's 'Dynamic Dialogue' focus. The second Powerpoint will help students to punctuate speech.The resource also comes with a Word document providing three cloze/fill in missing spaces passages to assist studen