Invite your young writers to take the reins with writing dialogue. Using two characters of their own creation, kids work with partners and then individually to write short conversations.

Concepts

writing dialogue, character building, diverse perspectives, punctuating dialogue, Narrative Writing

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Extend the activity by asking learners to write a story in which they can insert their newly written dialogue

Classroom Considerations

• This plan builds off a previous lesson that is not included; the main thing that pupils will need to do before this dialogue activity is to create characters

Pros

• Includes the excerpt from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that pupils are meant to examine
• Comes with a worksheet that learners can fill out when writing their dialogue
• Focuses on writing dialogue as well as punctuating it properly

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.4.3.a W.4.3.b W.5.3.a W.5.3.b L.4.2.a L.4.2.b L.5.2.a