The Boy In The Tower - Dialogue Writing with Direct Speech

Boost your students’ dialogue-writing skills with this structured 5-lesson plan on direct speech, guiding them from understanding basic dialogue to crafting a conversation with correct punctuation and formatting. Each lesson builds progressively, beginning with identifying speech in text and practicing conversations in speech bubbles, then introducing the rules of inverted commas and punctuation for direct speech. Students engage in activities like acting out scripts, writing their own dialogues between characters, and refining their use of dialogue markers, creating a clear and expressive conversation. The final lessons focus on editing and peer-reviewing to enhance grammar, punctuation, and clarity, ensuring students finish with confidence in writing realistic, well-punctuated conversations.

• Five fully resourced lessons building mastery of inverted commas in writing,
• Detailed lesson plans,
• End Product: a dialogue writing piece using inverted commas.