Example texts demonstrating dialogue writing with direct speech based on the book The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo.
The 3 differentiated example texts contain conversations between Bertie, his dad and his mum after Bertie sees the white lion cub for the first time.
Differentiated feature find worksheets with answers are included for easy marking and instant feedback.
All resources are differentiated three ways.
Resources provided:
• Example dialogue texts x3
• Feature find worksheets x3
• Answers x3
The model texts are useful as WAGOLLs to examine before children attempt their own dialogue writing based on the book.
All documents are provided in PDF and editable Word format.
The following features of dialogue and speech can be found in the example dialogues (depending on level of difficulty):
• Actual words spoken, with inverted commas on either side
• Reporting clause after speech, separated from words spoken with a comma, question mark or exclamation mark
• Reporting clause before speech, separated from words spoken with a comma
• Variety of speech verbs
• Adverbs
• Actions of the characters
• New paragraph every time the speaker/character changes.
• Feelings of characters shown through action
• Two or more sentences spoken at once with reporting clause at the beginning/end
• Two sentences spoken at once with the reporting clause in the middle
• One sentence spoken but split in half by the reporting clause
• Contractions used in speech
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Other Butterfly Lion resources:
✦ Example Text BUNDLE
✦ Diary Example Text Pack
✦ Timeline Activity Pack
✦ Character Profile Example Pack
✦ Character Sort Activity
Units of work:
✦ The Iron Man Unit of Work
✦ Stig of the Dump Complete Unit of Work
✦ Moon Landing Diary Unit of Work BUNDLE
Diary WAGOLL text packs:
✦ The Boy Who Grew Dragons
✦ Christophe’s Story
✦ How To Train Your Dragon
✦ Stone Age Boy
✦ Journey
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