Teaching direct speech is always a tricky aspect, there is so much to remember and very few useful visual pictures that clearly help children know what and how to use speech punctuation properly.
Lets look at some of the tips to remember:
The words that are spoken have to go within the speech marks.Any punctuation needs to also go inside the speech marks.A reporting clause, who and how they said it can go before, middle or end.A comma follows the reporting clause at the beginning.You need to start a new line when a new character speaks.
I think that is most of them??
I have heard of endless different ways to try and get children to remember these tips -
keeping the sheeps in the pen or
speech mark sandwich which are a couple of examples however they do not have any visual help for tips such as starting on a new line, which is something some of my children find hardest to remember.
I decided to use a different approach, to help cover the aspects of correctly punctuating speech throug…
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