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Interview: Talking About the Future
In this conversation instructional activity, students collaborate with classmates and ask 10 questions about future plans that include the words "going to". Students answer the questions.
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Dialogue Practice
In these dialogue worksheets, students practice the conversations with a partner. Students practice reading and speaking 5 conversations.
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Speech Marks
In these speech marks worksheets, students read the examples of dialogue and quotation phrases. Students study the placement of quotation marks.
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What's the Matter? - Oral Language Skills
In this oral language practice activity, students practice giving advice for situations such as having a blister, a sore throat, or a fever. They answer 5 questions about their own health.
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It's My Treat
For this conversation practice worksheet, students discuss the questions with a partner that relate to eating out. Students answer 9 questions.
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Did anybody call?
In this taking messages lesson, students practice reading a dialogue to partners about taking phone messages. Students practice 3 different kinds of messages.
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Conversing with an Object
Students analyze museum artifacts and create conversations between these inanimate objects using prior historical knowledge. In this museum artifact lesson plan, students create theoretical dialogue between historical artifacts in order...
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Beginning Dialogues - "Tie Your Shoes!"
In this dialogue learning exercise, students read a dialogue between a boy and his family. They then answer 4 questions about vocabulary and questions and answers.
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Beginning Dialogues- "Where Are My Glasses?"
In this dialogue worksheet, 5th graders read a beginning dialogue piece entitled, "Where are my glasses?" They answer 4 multiple choice questions including 2 comprehension questions and 2 vocabulary questions.
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Role Playing- Health 1. Booking an appointment at the dentist's:
In this language arts worksheet, students practice oral language skills by practicing making an appointment at the dentist's office. Students work in pairs to role play this situation using the dialogue provided.
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Test Your Speaking And Listening Skills: Role Playing- Family
In this speaking and listening worksheet, students improve their oral language skills by collaborating with a classmate in a dialogue. The subject of the dialogue is "my dad's new girlfriend" and would be best suited to older students.
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Encounter with an Interviewer
Students read the Mark Twain short story, Encounter with an Interviewer. They study "the interview" and discuss the role of the interviewer and the person being interviewed. They conduct mock interviews, constructing questions and...
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The Milkman
Students practice speaking and listening in the context of an improvised mini-play. They play the role of a milkman. He stops and rings the imaginary doorbell of one of the pupils. A conversation follows, for example: "What will it be...
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The Story Tree
Students create dialogue that relates to a Florida Archives silent film clip. They research the Florida Memory Project and view a film clip. They record their dialogue on index cards and review and revise the dialogue as needed. They...
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Comic Strip
Third graders research and discuss the life and times of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. They create a comic strip of his life, complete with sketches and dialogue. They display their work in the classroom.
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Revising Your Mystery Story
Students edit and improve their short stories by examining character description, dialogue, and plot elements. In peer editing groups they correct gramatical and spelling errors. they read aloud their new story drafts.
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Making a Movie Script Based on a Short Story
Students read William Melvin Kelly's, Brother Carlyle and write a short movie script based on the story. They either write the opening scene or a scene that could appear after the original story is over.
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Adventures in Wonderland: A Genre Study
Students explore the concepts of fantasy writing through this nine lessons unit. The unit presents semantic mapping, discussions, comparisons of various works of fantasy, and the opportunity to create their own fantasies.
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National Writing Project: Collaborating to Write Dialogue
In this lesson, writing partners work together to develop a plot and characters. The lesson emphasizes the use of dialogue to develop the characters and plot of the story.
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Sonic Storytelling: Writing Method for Radio Drama
This article is filled with tips for beginners on how to write radio drama sketches or adapt stories into radio plays. You'll see examples of sketches as well as tips on writing well. W.9-10.3, 3a, 3b Narratives, W.11-12.3, 3a, 3b...
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Classic Reader: The Apology by Xenophon
This is the full text of the narrative The Apology by Xenophon, a Socratic dialogue about the legal defense that the philosopher Socrates presented at his trial for the moral corruption of Athenian youth; and for impiety against the...
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Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Quotations and Scripts
This resource from the Folger Shakespeare Library provides some of the most famous lines from Shakespearean works. A list of Shakespearean insults, compliments, and quotations are provided. Several adapted scripts for children, based on...
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Texas Gateway: Write Literary Text That Develops Interesting Characters
You will learn how to write an imaginative story that develops interesting characters and believable dialogue.
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Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story. W.11-12.3b Narratives