These rules all work together. The character who is speaking is labeled with a speaker tag. Dialogue can take place before and after speaker tags as well as with a speaker tag in the middle of a spoken sentence. To locate and identify different speakers in a writing piece. Quotation marks indidcate dialogue in a selection of writing.
Dialogue is conversation between characters.
Overhead sheet containing a dialogue except from Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary. Individual dialogue sheets for each student with double spaced dialogue from Mouse and the Motorcycle. Large sheet of chart paper. Markers and overhead markers 5. Writing folders for each student 6.