Teaching quotation marks

Introduce dialogue with easy ways your students will love to practice! Fun strategies to bring laughter to what can be a tough subject!

Quotation Marks Anchor Chart (with FREEBIE)- Teach your students about the placement of tags when writing dialogue.

Working on quotation marks with your students/child? This FUN and engaging game is the perfect way to learn how to use them…plus kids practice spelling at the same time! Like my Roll and Write Different Kinds of Sentences, spelling words are integrated right into the activity! Note: The free download link is found towards the ... Read More about Roll and Write Sentences with Quotation Marks

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Last year I shared some of our favorite ways to introduce and practice using quotation marks and dialogue and in our writing along with editing. You can find that post - here. Today, I have a new idea to add to the mix that we are trying this year. I made these animal posters to introduce dialogue and we are going to use them as a center. I plan to laminate them after printing multiple copies to a page and using dry erase markers to practice our quotation marks. These would also make an…

We have been brushing up on our quotation skills the last couple of weeks. It is such a hard skill for students to grasp in first grade, but once they reach second grade it's like something "clicks" and they can pick it up quickly. (So don't stress yourselves out first grade teachers!) Here is our quotation mark anchor chart... we used quotes from our Magic Tree House read aloud that we have been reading. During stations, we used play-dough to create quotation marks on our sentence cards…

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Hello Everyone, Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek into the wonderful world of first grade! Just a quick post tonight! We still have company at our house!! :) One of our objectives this week is to introduce dialogue in text and in our own written expression. We had fun learning about when to use quotation marks and what they are for. We then experimented a little with some sentences about Earth Day, using TRIX cereal for the quotation marks. Why not??? We hung our dialogue…

Check out this great lesson I found on Cleverbean. Learning Intention: Identify quotation marks and explain their purpose in texts.