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    Direct Speech Powerpoint

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    The document provides instructions for transforming narrative text into dialogue. It gives examples of direct speech and reported speech. Students are then tasked with transforming a biography passage about Roald Dahl into a dialogue and checking that they are using features of dialogue like quotation marks and attributing speech to speakers. As an extension, students can find examples of direct speech in another book and rewrite them as reported speech.

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    The document provides instructions for transforming narrative text into dialogue. It gives examples of direct speech and reported speech. Students are then tasked with transforming a biography passage about Roald Dahl into a dialogue and checking that they are using features of dialogue like quotation marks and attributing speech to speakers. As an extension, students can find examples of direct speech in another book and rewrite them as reported speech.

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    The document provides instructions for transforming narrative text into dialogue. It gives examples of direct speech and reported speech. Students are then tasked with transforming a biography passage about Roald Dahl into a dialogue and checking that they are using features of dialogue like quotation marks and attributing speech to speakers. As an extension, students can find examples of direct speech in another book and rewrite them as reported speech.

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    Direct Speech Powerpoint

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    The document provides instructions for transforming narrative text into dialogue. It gives examples of direct speech and reported speech. Students are then tasked with transforming a biography passage about Roald Dahl into a dialogue and checking that they are using features of dialogue like quotation marks and attributing speech to speakers. As an extension, students can find examples of direct speech in another book and rewrite them as reported speech.

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    WALT:

    Transform
    narrative into
    dialogue
    In partners…
    Turn the direct speech into reported speech.

     “I hate you,” she whispered.

     “Did you find it in the tunnel?” she asked.

     “Let’s find the others,” he suggested.

     “That’s not fair!” he exclaimed.


    Dialogue from Roald Dahl Biography

    At last school was over. “And now, to university,” said his


    mother.

    “Not likely!” said Roald. “I shall become a businessman and


    travel the world.”

    “We are sending you to Egypt,” said one of his bosses two
    years later.

    “Too dusty!” said Roald. “And I’d like some jungles, please.”

    In the end they sent him to East Africa.

    Roald reached Africa at last. “So much to see,” he said, “and


    so different from home!”
     speech
    marks enclosing the words actually
    spoken;
     comma at the end of the spoken words before
    the ‘said’;
     new line/paragraph for each new speaker;
     lower case for ‘said’ even after exclamation
    mark;
     sentence continues with lower case after the
    speaker.
    Your task…
     Transform text about Roald Dahl into dialogue.
    Keep checking that you are using all the features
    of dialogue.

     Extension: Open your reading book and see if you


    can find any examples of direct speech. Copy them
    in to your literacy book and then write them out as
    reported speech.

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