Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to identify and record how to add speech marks and other punctuation marks to punctuate different dialogue sentences related to a narrative story that has been read by the class.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to convert different dialogue sentences related to a story read by the class from reported to direct speech.

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.