How do we learn to write dialogue?
In our classroom we listened to the dilightful conversation in the short story, "Our Good Day," from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. We looked inside The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare and read the dialogue and examine the punctuation and paragraphing:
We took notes and wrote exampes in our notebooks.
Next we practiced adding conversations between characters in our own writing, an example of which would be placed in our interactive notebooks.Some students creatively wrote in their notebooks:
If you need a reminder about writing dialogue, here is an excellent resource from ReadWriteThink: Dialogue Tags.
Adding dialogue to your writing draws your reader in to become part of your conversation, making your writing real!
If you'd like, you could add one of your character conversations in the comments.
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I loved the use of Piccasohead as a way to 'inspire' dialogue. I think kids can relate to it. I also liked seeing how students used their notebook to creatively write dialogue.
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Yes, Nancy. Journals are "low tech!" but most kids love taking them home and bring them back to share. They love computers and their journals. Thanks for stopping by.
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