Which sentence has been punctuated correctly?

Breaking up speech with dialogue tags

﻿Welcome back students, I am Mrs Bayley. And this is your lesson on breaking up direct speech with dialogue tags and introducing additional speakers. For today's lesson, you will need a pen and some paper. You will also need to make sure that your brain is switched on. Before we begin, just take a moment to ensure that you have removed any potential distractions, such as your mobile phone. It would be a good idea to turn it off or put it on silent. Make sure that you are working in a quiet space where you can really concentrate. Before we start the main tasks, I'm just going to run you through what we are going to do in the lesson today. We're going to start off with a recap on breaking up speech with dialogue tags, then I'm going to introduce you to some new rules for breaking up speech, with dialogue tags. Then I'm going to show you how to introduce additional speakers. So up to now we've just looked at one speaker. I'm going to show you how to introduce additional speakers. Then it will be your turn to demonstrate your knowledge. And then finally you will be able to test yourself by completing the exit quiz. Wonderful, okay, let's begin. Recap on breaking up speech with dialogue tags. To recap your knowledge, I would like you to work out which sentence has been punctuated correctly. In a moment, I will ask you to pause the video, read the sentences really carefully, and then I would like you to make a note of the sentence you think has been punctuated correctly. Is it one, two or three? So I would like you to pause the video now and off you go. Well done if you said number two. But I'm not going to explain why this is correct just yet. Instead, I'm going to ask you to recall the rules yourself. Can you remember the punctuation rules we need to apply when inserting a dialogue tag into the middle of a sentence of direct speech? I would like you to pause your video now and make notes in a bullet point list. What can you remember about the rules? Pause your video and off you go. Okay, students, Excellent work, let's see how you got on. When inserting a dialogue tag into the middle of a sentence, we must put a comma at the end of the first part of the sentence before the close inverted commas. Let's see what that looks like. Can you see where the arrow is pointing? So that's where the comma needs to go. We must also remember that we only include a capital letter at the start of our dialogue tag if we are using a proper noun. So in this example, Kiran is a name, it's a proper now so a capital K is needed, however, if we used "she" the pronoun instead, a lowercase s would be needed. We must also remember to put a comma after the dialogue tag, before the next set of open inverted commas. And that looks like this. So can you see where the comma is? Fantastic, so to recap, we must put a comma at the end of the first part of the sentence, we must only use a capital letter if we are using a proper noun and our dialogue tags, and we must put a comma after the dialogue tag, before the next set of open inverted commas. And so now it's time for a task. Can you insert a dialogue tag into the direct speech where indicated, but I'm going to give you an example first. So what you need to do is you will need to create your own dialogue tag, and you can use either pronouns or proper nouns for your dialogue tags. So, I'll start you off with an example. So the sentence of direct speech is unless you have any questions, I think we can end the meeting there. Now the arrow is pointing in between questions and I, so that is where I need to put my dialogue tasks at a time. So I will write, "Unless you have any questions," the headteacher said, "I think we can end the meeting there." So I've made up a dialogue tag and dropped it in where the arrow is pointing. "I could have written," she said, or he said, or Bob said, you can't make up your own dialogue tags. Just remember to drop the dialogue tag in where the arrow is pointing and you have to also apply the rules you've just learned. Okay, so it's your turn and I'm going to show you your sentences. So can you insert a dialogue tag into the direct speech where indicated by the arrow and can you remember to apply the rules you've just learned? Pause your video and off you go. Fantastic, really, really well done. Absolutely brilliant. Now, don't worry, we will have different answers for this. There are lots of possible answers for the dialogue tags. We should however, have followed the same punctuation rules. Let's look at the dialogue tags first. Did you place the tag in between "walk" and "we" for this first sentence? If you used a pronoun in your dialogue tag, like he or she, did you remember to use a lowercase letter as opposed to a capital? Or if you used a proper noun like Sally, for example, in my second example there, did you remember to use a capital letter, 'cause we do use capital letters for proper nouns. Okay, let's look at your punctuation, now. Did you remember to include a comma after "walk" and before the close inverted commas? So the commerce should have gone after work and before the close inverted commas. If so, very well done. If not, don't worry, pause the video and make those corrections now. Did you also include a comma after the dialogue tag and before the open versus commas? If you didn't pause the video and make those corrections. Fantastic, let's look at our second example then. So let's have a look, did you place your dialogue time in between "panic" and "but"? If you used a pronoun, did you use a lowercase letter? So for he or she, did you use a lowercase letter? If you used a proper noun, did you use a capital letter? So if you used a name like Nathan, for example, did you use a capital letter? Well done. Okay, let's check your punctuation now. Did you include a comma after "panic," but before the close inverted commas? Did you include another comma after "said," but before the open inverted commas? If you need to pause the video, please do and make those corrections now. And don't worry if you did get any of those wrong, because that's how we learn best by making mistakes. So don't worry at all. Pause the video and make the corrections now. Very well done students, you're doing brilliantly. So now we're going to look at some new rules for breaking up direct speech with dialogue tags. Here are some key rules. If you are inserting a dialogue tag in between two separate sentences, you should begin your second sentence with a capital letter. You should put a full stop after your dialogue tag. Let's look at the following example. "I'm starting to panic" said, David. "I have lost my phone." So looking at this example, "I'm starting to panic" and "I have lost my phone" are two separate sentences. So before in the previous activity, we were looking at how to break up one sentence with a dialogue tag, but now we're looking at two separate sentences and putting a dialogue tag in the middle, you can see that "I'm starting to panic" and "I have lost my phone," are two separate sentences. They can stand alone as two separate sentences, and that's what they're doing in the speech here. So if we're going to put a dialogue tag in between two separate sentences, we have to do the following. We have to put a comma after the first sentence, and do you have to make sure that that comma, comes before the close inverted commas. You need to put a full stop after the dialogue tag, and the second sentence needs to start with a capital letter. So let's look at another example because that's quite a lot to take in, in terms of new learning. "I think he needs to stop and think," the teacher said. "Where did you last use it?" Because these are two separate sentences, you need to put a comma after the first sentence. It has to come before the close inverted commas before the dialogue tag, so after the first sentence, you need a comma. You then need to put a full stop after the dialogue tag. So we've got a comma after the first sentence, and then we've got a full stop after the dialogue tag. And because we've put a full stop at the end of the dialogue tag, we need to start our second sentence with a capital letter. So let's recap. We put the comma after the first sentence, we put a full stop after the dialogue tag, we start the second sentence with a capital letter. So now it's time to check our understanding of that new learning. Which of the following sentences has not been punctuated correctly? I would like you to pause the video and read those sentences really, really carefully? Based on what you've just learned, I would like you to identify which of these has not been punctuated correctly, which of these sentences has not followed those new rules? Pause the video and off you go. Absolutely fantastic, well done, brilliant. The answer is D. So very, very well done. A full stop has been used after "fine" instead of a comma, so we've learned that the a common needs to go after the first sentence, and this one has not followed that rule. Also, the pronoun has been capitalised and that's incorrect, because if we are ending that first sentence with a comma, the pronoun needs to be a small letter, a lowercase letter. We also can see that a comma has been used after the dialogue tag. And we know that you're meant to use a full stop after the dialogue tag. Here's another task for you. I would like you to demonstrate your understanding of the new rules by reading each of the statements really, really carefully. You must decide which of the statements is false. Are you ready to pause the video and complete this task? Brilliant, off you go. Well done students, fantastic, you doing a great job. C is false. It is false because it says that you must not start your sentence, your second sentence with a capital letter, when we know that we should start our second sentences with capital letters, that is one of the key rules. So the second sentence must start with a capital letter. Introducing additional speakers. Here is the new rule for introducing additional speakers. So when we are introducing additional speakers, we need to remember a new speaker, new line. So every time a new speaker says something, you just start a new line. Now we haven't done this before. Up to this point, we've only looked at one speaker. We've had two characters sometimes in our piece of writing, we've only had one character speaking. So when we are introducing multiple speakers, we need to remember that it's new speaker, new line. When a new speaker say something, we should start a new line. Okay, the rules are not being followed here. The coach gathered the team together. She said, today is the day you are going to win the tournament. I feel sick, Aditi said. me too said, Tegan. Well, it should look like this. The coach gathered the team together. She said, "Today is the day, "you are going to win the tournament." "I feel sick," Aditi said. Now, because Aditi is a new speaker, Aditi should be given a new line here. Okay, so this is correct, this has been set out correctly. Aditi has been given a new line. and it's the same Tegan below, "Me too," said Tegan. So Tegan has been given an aligned to herself because she is a new speaker. So this has been punctuated correctly and also all of that wonderful speech punctuation is in there as well. The commas are in the right place, the full stops are in the right places. Okay, now it's your turn. I would like you to do two jobs. I would like you to add the missing speech punctuation, and I would also like you to apply the new speaker, new line rule. So I would like you to pause the video and I would like you to write out those sentences with the correct speech punctuation, and I would like you to apply the new speaker, new line rule. Fantastic, pause the video and off you go. Well done, you are doing brilliantly, really well done. Are you ready to tick and fix your work? Did you include open inverted commas before "Look?" Did you add a comma after "advantage?" Did you close your inverted commas? Did you use a lowercase letter for the s in "she?" Did you start a new line at that point? Did you include a comma after "said" in Candic said? And then did you open your inverted commas? Did you put a full stop after "edge" before closing your inverted commas? And finally, did you start another new line? Did you open your inverted commas before "Exactly?" You should have then remembered your comma before closing your inverted commas? Well, very well done. I would like you to pause the video and tick and fix your work now. Okay, we're at the your turn part of the lesson now. And this is when you're going to demonstrate your understanding of all the new learning in your own writing. I would like you to rise a paragraph about each of these images. So it is Jane's birthday. Before you write, I want you to have a look at the images and think about what could be happening in these images. This will help you to think of lots of ideas for what to write about. Now, you need to include direct speech from at least two characters in each paragraph. If you're struggling to make a start, don't worry. I have provided an example just underneath the picture on the slide there, so you could start off in that way. So the paragraphs don't have to be very long, but in each one, at least two characters need to be speaking. So you need to apply your speech punctuation rules, and you need to also apply the new rule, new speaker, new line. Okay, brilliant. So do pause your video and complete that task now. Brilliant, you've done absolutely brilliantly. Well done. Okay, when marking your work, I want you to focus on the new speaker, new line rule in particular. I would like you to have a look and see, 'Did you apply it?" I have provided an example of what this looks like on the side, underneath the picture. So did you apply the new speaker, new line rule? That's what I want you to focus on in your marking. And if you are struggling to visualise what that looks like, please do have a look at the example there. As you can see, I've started a new line for Peter's speech and a new line for Carla's speech. So Peter said, "I'll stop talking about it." That's given a new line, and Carla said, "Good." That's been given a new line. So I would like you to pause the video and check that you have followed that rule. If you want to find more examples of what that looks like, you can go back through the previous slides, you can rewind the video for more examples, if you need to. Pause the video, mark your work well done. Brilliant work, brilliant work. Before you do your exit quiz, I just want to say a huge thank you for your hard work, you've done a brilliant job. If you're able to please take a picture of your work and ask your parent or carer to share it with your teacher so they can see all the wonderful things that you have done today. And if you'd like you to ask your parent or carer to send a picture of your work to "@OakNational" on Twitter, and that way I can see your lovely artwork too. Thank you so very much for your hard work students and don't forget to complete your exit quiz. Well done.

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

Breaking up direct speech with dialogue tags and introducing additional speakers

In this lesson, we will develop our knowledge of how to insert dialogue tags into the middle of a line of direct speech. We will also learn how to introduce additional speakers, using the correct punctuation. We will then apply that knowledge in a piece of creative writing inspired by two images.

English

Y7 English

Key Stage 3

Year 7

Y8 English

Year 8

Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns

Grammar

THEME

UNIT

Punctuating speech correctly

Direct speech: Varying punctuation and dialogue tags

Direct speech: Moving dialogue tags and using pronouns

Breaking up direct speech with dialogue tags

Punctuating speech correctly: Applying the rules when writing creatively

Which of the following words is NOT a pronoun?

Indirect speech contains the exact words used by the character/speaker.

Which of the following is NOT a dialogue tag?

If the dialogue tag is positioned at the start of a sentence, you should give your pronoun a capital letter.

If the dialogue tag is positioned at the end of a sentence, you should give your pronoun a capital letter.

What does a dialogue tag DO?

Why might we choose to include an adverb in a dialogue tag?

Lesson overview:Breaking up direct speech with dialogue tags and introducing additional speakers

Core Content

Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns: