An example text demonstrating dialogue writing with direct speech based on the Beowulf retelling by Michael Morpurgo plus accompanying resources.
The differentiated WAGOLL contains a conversation between Beowulf, his father, Edgetheow, and his uncle, King Hygelac, when he decides to travel to Denmark to kill Grendel. It is based on a part of the story containing no direct speech. Differentiated feature find sheets with answers and word bank are also included.
This resource contains the following documents:
• Example dialogue texts x3
• Dialogue text feature find sheets x3
• Answer sheets x3
• Contractions word bank
Pupils examine the model text, completing the feature find sheet, before writing their own version or continuing the dialogue.
The resources can be used when studying Morpurgo’s version of the story Beowulf or a different one, such as Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye or Beowulf by Rob Lloyd Jones.
All documents available as PDFs and easily editable Word documents.
Text contains the following features:
• Actual words spoken, with inverted commas on either side
• Reporting clause separated from words spoken with comma, question mark or exclamation mark
• Variety of speech verbs
• Adverbs
• Contractions within speech
• New paragraph every time the speaker changes
• Feelings of characters shown through action
• Two sentences spoken at once with reporting clause at the beginning/end
• Split speech: one sentence spoken but split into two by the reporting clause
• Split speech: two sentences spoken at once and split into two by the reporting clause
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