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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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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