Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and record example dialogue using the correct sentence punctuation that might have been spoken by some of the different characters in a fiction story about animals to indicate their actions and thoughts about the narrative events.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to choose and record sentences to suggest what characters might have said in a story about animals.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate how authors illustrate characters and narrate plot events using direct speech when writing stories, practise adding prefixes to word roots and punctuate direct speech sentences correctly. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.