Teach the correct usage of quotation marks in narrative writing with this set of teaching slides.
A Quotation Marks PowerPoint for Your Narrative Writing Unit
This Quotation Marks PowerPoint presentation has been designed to teach your students the correct usage of quotation marks in narrative writing. It addresses the following content:
- An overview of the purpose of quotation marks
- Examples of how direct speech can be written in narrative texts
- Explanations of the punctuation rules associated with direct speech
- Whole-class and individual review activities with answers.
Providing students with explicit instruction about how and why it is important to use q1uotation marks is crucial to their understanding of narrative texts and how it can impact the way a text is read. Why not practice reading text that doesn’t have quotation marks and ask the students what they notice?
More Activities for Teaching How to Use Quotation Marks
There are many other quotation mark activities you can incorporate into your narrative unit lessons. Here are just a few to get you started:
- Comic Strip Conversion – Download and print out a comic strip that has speech bubbles on it. Ask students to write dialogue for characters using proper quotation marks.
- Casual Conversation – In pairs, have students write a short conversation between two characters. Each student can write one character line, using quotation marks correctly.
- Quotation Mark Detective – Photocopy a section out of the class novel and have students highlight the quotation marks they find.
Download and Teach the Rules of Quotation Marks
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Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and Teach Starter collaborator, contributed to this resource.
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