Lessons tagged with "quotes"
Punctuate Quotations Correctly
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language lesson teaches students how to punctuate quotations in their writing. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to separate signal phrases from direct quotations using commas and quotation marks. They will also learn to capitalize the first word of a direct quotation.
Use Quotation Marks Around the Exact Words of a Speaker
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on using quotation marks around the exact words of a speaker. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and identify the dialog tag. Then, they punctuate the sentence with quotation marks and read the sentence again, paying attention to the quotation marks. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.