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Using Quotation Marks in Narrative Writing PowerPoint
A 21 slide editable PowerPoint template to be used when teaching correct usage of quotation marks.
This PowerPoint presentation has been designed to teach your students about the correct usage of quotation marks inย narrative writing. It addresses the following content:
- an overview of the purposeย 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.
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2.C
Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.2.B
Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text.

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Design refresh of PowerPoint template.
Change by Stephanie (Teach Starter) Nov 19th, 2018
Fixed an error on second example sentence on slide 13.
Fix by Stephanie (Teach Starter) May 16th, 2017
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