Young writers examine dialogue conventions, including indentation, quotation marks, and expressing thoughts and feelings through a fictional text. By noticing where and when authors use dialogue, they decide how to incorporate dialogue into their historical fiction narrative writing pieces. The teacher first models this concept, and then classmates work collaboratively to plan where to put their dialogue.

Concepts

historical fiction, Narrative Writing, writing dialogue, the writing process, punctuating dialogue

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Add completed work to individual work folders to keep everything organized
• Introduce dialogue with speech bubbles in comic strips

Classroom Considerations

• Provide highlighters and blue colored pencils for learners to revise their drafts
• This is the ninth in a series of 16 lessons that help learners write historical fiction narratives
• You'll need to prepare a writing dialogue anchor chart on poster paper

Pros

• Common Core designed
• Includes detailed lesson procedures, guiding questions, required materials, homework ideas, and reproducibles

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.4.1 W.4.3.b L.4.2.b