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This would be a great accommodation for students with special needs, or learning disabilities. The students can either add quotations to the work sheet, or copy the sentences with quotations in their grammar workbooks.

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The book, I Want My Hat Back, has great dialogue, but is missing punctuation. The teacher can first read the story to the class. As a class they can add quotation marks and other punctuation to the story.

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I have included this video as an introduction to the importance of adding dialogue in your writing. ELL students will be able to watch a fun video explaining a story with dialogue and with out dialogue. The narrator reads each slide, which will help ELL students who cannot read.

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Narrative Writing: Adding Dialogue | Lesson plan | Education.com

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This lesson challenges young learners to add dialogue to their writing. Students will love using their creativity to write personal narratives.

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After teaching students how to create lively characters and to convert telling sentences into showing ones, I felt good about myself until I

read their next assignment and realized they didn't know how to write dialogue. Plagued with inane conversations and useless filler, my students' writing made me want to scour my tongue with a Brillo pad. Seconds before scouring my taste buds, I thought of a great way of teaching dialogue. I removed the pad, scrubbed some pots and pans in the teachers' lounge, called my wife, and told her I'd be home late.

I had work to do. I had to find a better way of teaching dialogue. Here's what I came up with:

Procedures

Discuss the following points on how to write good dialogue:

Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people.

Dialogue is essential to fiction writing.

Dialogue brings characters to life and adds interest.

Dialogue must do more than just duplicate real speech.

Writing dialogue consists of the most exciting, most interesting, most emotional, and most dramatic words.

Brainstorm people that might have a conversation and write them on the board and what they might talk about. Some examples:

Parent - Teacher: How much money might it take for little Billy to get a 'C'?

Friend - Friend: Who's dating whom?

Teacher Upholding the Integrity of School Rules - Student Cheating on a Test: How much a zero is going to hurt?

Someone Celebrating Unusual Independence Day Customs - Loyalist to the British Crown: Why it's OK/Not OK to burn flags?

Girlfriend Catching Boyfriend With Another Girl - Boyfriend Claiming It Was His Sister: Why boy was making out with his alleged sister?

Teenager - Parent: What possibly Jose could have been doing out until 3:00 A.M.?

Application

Divide students into pairs.

Show them a picture of people talking. Pictures involving a literary work they are reading are most effective.

Instruct pairs to invent a situation and write a dialogue of at least 10 lines.

Encourage students to include explanatory material and to write more than just "he said...she said."

As students create their dialogue, write the following functions for dialogue on the board:

Provide Information

Describe a Place or Character

Create a Sense of Time

Create Suspense or Conflict

Move the Story Forward

Reveal a Character's Thoughts

Summarize What Has Happened

Create a Sense of Place

Revision Application

Instruct students to read their drafts.

Look for places dialogue would enhance the quality of their writing.

Remind them to use the list on the board to help them find passages.

Explain that the use of a dialogue tag is not always necessary. Readers often know who is speaking without having to be told.

For writing passages with several lines of dialogue, instruct students to cover up their dialogue one line at a time.

Read the dialogue without the covered line. If it makes sense then either change or delete the covered line.

Ask several students to read their added dialogue to the class and explain why they added it.

Ask several students to read their dialogue before and after removing dialogue tags.

Organize a paragraph challenge.

* This lesson has been adapted from Mini Lessons for Revision by Susan Geye, 1997, Absey & Co. Spring, TX.

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Lesson Plan: Writing Dialogue: Teach Students How to Write Dialogue Effectively

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After teaching students how to create lively characters and to convert telling sentences into showing ones, I felt good about myself until I read their next assignment and realized they didn't know how to write dialogue. Plagued with inane conversations and useless filler, my students' writing made me want to scour my tongue with a Brillo pad.

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This assessment and lesson will need to be modified for 4th graders. However, it provides a basis for written dialogue assessment

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Students can work with a partner to construct a written narrative with dialogue. Their written dialogue can be preformed in front of the class.

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ESL Dialogue Activities

Teach a great lesson plan using ESL dialogue and ESL activities including Two at a Time, 10 More, 20 Questions, and Paired Speech. Each ESL dialogue activity is fun and will help your students develop proficiency in English.

Two at a Time

To begin your lesson plan using dialogue, ESL students in your classroom should read a dialogue prompt written on the board. This prompt instructs the students to pair with another student and begin to discuss the prompt. The prompt can be on a variety of topics, from health to language, science to culture. Have these prompts flow into the lesson of the day as seamlessly as possible.

When you have done this language prompt for a while, you will begin to notice that students begin to switch their conversations to the prompt almost effortlessly. This kind of routine is a great idea to utilize for the class from the beginning of the year, so that by the time you are observed by administration it has become habitual.

10 More

Instead of simply holding your ESL students accountable for having a dialogue with one person, have them collect information from ten other students. Say, for example, that you are teaching a lesson on food. Have your students walk around the room speaking with the other students to figure out ten other people's favorite food. Once they have compiled a list, have volunteers share their list verbally with the whole class. Then, issue a homework assignment to interview another student in the school or a family member. This ESL dialogue activity helps students become familiar with one another while becoming more and more comfortable with conversation.

20 Questions

To have your ESL students get to know one another, you can do a weekly installment of 20 questions, in which every student thinks of a question to ask the "student of the week." This student of the week gets the spotlight and responds to questions, practicing his or her English, while the rest of the class practices a variety of questions.

Paired Speech

Have two students work to create a paired speech using dialogue. Give them a theme-sports, movies, science, etc.-and have them perform their skit for the entire class. You will most likely have to guide them through the editing process and help them with grammar and vocabulary. If given enough time and coaching, your ESL students will impress you with their creative dialogues. Make sure to organize your lessons well using a good ESL lesson plan template.

Discuss Both Listening and Speaking Skills

When creating a lesson plan using dialogue, ESL students in your classroom need to practice listening and speaking well. The activities mentioned above, when used throughout the year, provide a firm platform for your students to practice their English skills in a safe and respectful environment.

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Lesson Plan Using Dialogue: ESL Conversation Ideas

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Teach this lesson plan about using dialogue and how to carry on a conversation. The ESL students in your classroom once engaged will surprise themselves with how well they can learn through the casual use of conversation. You'll find ideas for several exercises here, and remember to choose themes that your students love so they can implement the activities in this lesson.

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This would be a great introduction activity and I would pair my students with learning disabilities or ELLs in appropriate groups.

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This activity can be done as a class, or individually if every student has access to a computer.

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Students can act out dialogue by reading the given conversations between two people.

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Practice Reading and Speaking English with These Dialogues

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Learn English by practicing dialogues that focus on a wide variety of topics listed by grammar point, class level or purpose.

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Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

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I love this seasonal worksheet! Students are able to rewrite the sentence provide and include quotation marks where they belong. This would be an awesome activity to give after the initial lesson, as either a refresher or extra practice.