Direct speech resources

This task assesses the initial knowledge and understanding associated with correct use of speech marks for direct speech, i.e., identifying the words spoken. Students are required to identify the words spoken in four sentences by recording them in speech bubbles.

Students fill in speech bubbles from direct speech in sentences. The purpose of this activity is to assess students' ability to identify the words actually spoken.

This assessment task has students writing a short conversation between friends, using speech marks that have been modelled in the task.

This task assesses the initial understanding needed to punctuate direct speech, by asking students to re-write words in speech bubbles as direct speech and insert the necessary punctuation.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks, commas, and full stops into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.

This task assesses the understanding needed to punctuate direct speech by asking students to re-write words in speech bubbles as direct speech.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the speech marks required to punctuate the direct speech in the story.

Students are asked to read a short story and to insert the commas and speech marks required to indicate the direct speech in the story.

The assessment focus is punctuation with students inserting commas and speech marks into text.

Students read an article about a boy who loves sculpting insects to answer retrieval and inferential questions. (The text used for this resource is in the teacher information pages.) SJ-4-1-1997. Text provided.

Students read and then show a conversation using characters and speech bubbles.