Dialogue: Narrative Writing

Dialogue: Narrative Writing, is an engaging, single-lesson introduction to dialogue in fiction. The lesson can be taught as a stand-alone lesson or integrated as part of a unit of work on narrative writing. It is intended for use in a Secondary School English lesson, for a KS3 audience (11-14 year-olds), but it could also be used at KS2.

The lesson includes:

• A reminder/refresher on the rules of punctuating direct speech
• Links to a student-friendly video and dialogue transcript
• Tips on how to write effective dialogue using speech tags
• Activities to help pupils practise the techniques in the ppt
• Main Creative Writing activity and plenary
• Extension Activity

The 20-slide ppt is easy to follow with all answers provided. This lesson is intended for a 50 minutes - 1 hour of teaching time, but an optional extension task would easily extend it to cover 2 lessons if desired.