Characters Dialogue and Actions

Multiple Choice

What is a character?

(Choose the BEST answer.)

• a person or animal a story is about

• a chapter

• where and when the story happens

• Spongebob

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Name a character from a book, TV, movie, or video game.

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What characters say

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What characters do

​What is dialogue?

​Dialogue is when characters are speaking within written text.

​How do we show dialogue?

​There are no speech bubbles to show that characters are talking in regular books.

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• ​Authors use special punctuation

• ​Authors use dialogue tags

​Quotation Marks

Quotation marks go around the words that are being spoken.

​"I'm going to Disneyland," Mary yelled.

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• ​The words I'm going to Disneyland were spoken.

  • We put quotation marks around those words​​

  The words Mary yelled identifies who and how the person was speaking.

  • ​We call this a dialogue tag

Multiple Choice

What special punctuation goes around the speaking parts (dialogue)?

• period

• quotation mark

• exclamation marks

• comma

Drag and Drop

Dialogue makes a story more interesting. Thinking about it is one way we can tell what ​

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of characters are in a story, ​

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they ​

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things, and ​

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they ​

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.​

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kind

why

do

how

feel

Multiple Choice

Actions are what characters...

• say.

• do.

• think.

• feel.

Open Ended

Name an action in this story.

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The ​ character's ​

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show us what ​

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of ​

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they are.

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kind

character

actions

Open Ended

What do Tortoise's actions on this page show about him?

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Tortoise's actions show he is confident.

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Tortoise's actions show he is shy.

Match

Match the following

• characters

• dialogue

• actions

• show us what kind of characters they are

who or what the story is about

what characters say

what characters do

characters' action and dialogue

• who or what the story is about

• what characters say

• what characters do

• characters' action and dialogue