Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to add speech marks to correctly punctuate different sentences related to a story about whales for support ability levels and use the correct punctuation to convert from reported to direct speech sentences for core and extension ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use the correct punctuation to convert from reported to direct speech sentences about whales.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how authors use dialogue to illustrate the actions and thoughts of story characters and narrate plot events. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.