Dialogue Check

What needs to be done to the following sentence to make it correct?

"Do we have a Team Meeting today" asked Mr. Jones.

• Comma after "today"

• Question mark after "today"

• Question mark after "Mr. Jones"

• Period after "today"

What needs to be done to the following sentence to make it correct?

Mrs. Bois replied "Yes, it is scheduled during S.A.T. block."

• Comma after "yes"

• Question mark after "block"

• Period after "replied"

• Comma after "replied"

What needs to be done to the following sentence to make it correct?

"I cannot wait to plan this year's Halloween costume" Ms. McNulty shouted.

• Comma after "costume"

• Exclamation point after "shouted"

• Exclamation point after "costume"

• Period after "costume"

What needs to be done to the following sentence to make it correct? Choose all that apply.

"What should we all dress up as," Mrs. Langmead asked?

• Change the comma to a question mark after "as"

• Change the comma to a period after "as"

• Change the question mark to an exclamation point after "asked"

• Change the question mark to a period after "asked"

What needs to be done to the following sentence to make it correct? Choose all that apply.

"I have such a good idea" Mr. J responded. "However, I don't want to spoil the surprise for the kids"

• Remove the period after "responded"

• Add a comma after "idea"

• Add a period after "kids" - inside the quotation mark

• Add a period after "kids" - outside the quotation mark

What needs to be done to the following sentence to make it correct? Choose all that apply.

"Do I get to reuse my costume from last year" Ms. Panchuk asked.

"This year's idea was inspired by last year's princess dress" Mr. J replied.

• Add a comma after "dress"

• Add a question mark after "year"

• Add a comma after "year"

• Add a period after "dress" - inside the quotation mark

Match the following dialogue tags to the speech utterance.

• "Goooood morning, class!"

• Ms. Panchuk explained,

• "We will be reviewing rotations and transitions today."

• Mrs. Langmead asked,

• "It is disappointing no one did their HW."

• Mr. Jones exclaimed,

• "Who finds dialogue writing challenging?"

• Mr. J grumbled,

When writing dialogue and your speaker changes, what do you need to do to the following line of text?

• Skip a line

• Indent

• Bold it

• Italicize it

How many indentations would the following FOUR lines of dialogue need?

"Is XC practice outside today?" the 7th grader asked.

"Yes," Mr. Cooney responded. "We are going to be running the race course and tracking our times. Once we finish that, we will do some core and conditioning exercises. Then we will end practice with a game of manhunt.

"I hope I don't pass out in the woods," the 7th grader responded.

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The following dialogue is out of order. Reorder it.

Hint: Pay attention to the punctuation and capitalization. They are your clues!

• "Dialogue is easy,"

• "That is wonderful to hear!"

• "I know exactly how to punctuate it."

• the student confidently said to themselves.

• their teacher responded enthusiastically.