Punctuating Dialogue

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Writers add dialogue to their stories to capture the characters’ exact words, and use quotation marks to signal that the character is speaking. To really understand how to use dialogue in your piece you can study what published authors do to punctuate quotations. Then you try it out in your writing.

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Dialogue Anchor Chart Alt Text

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Directions:

For your assignment today, add dialogue to this paragraph:

Adding Dialogue Alt Text

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