Teaching Quotations Marks During Narrative Teaching Units

This 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 Quotation Marks in Stories Activity Ideas

There are many other quotation mark activities you can incorporate into your narrative unit lessons.. here are just a few:

• Download and print out a comic strip that has speech bubbles on it. Ask students to write dialogue for characters using proper quotation marks.
• In pairs, have students write a short conversation between two characters. Each student can write one character lien and they must use quotation marks correctly.
• Photocopy a section out of the class novel and have students highlight the quotation marks they find.
• Use some story starters and provide these to your students, you can include a line of dialogue and then have them continue the story, including more dialogue and using quotation marks correctly.

Download and Teach Quotation Marks Today

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Alessandra Pastor, a Teach Starter collaborator, contributed to this resource.

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