Quotation+Marks

Quotation Marks Note: This is not in Write Steps. I have all of the materials premade for these lessons. I would be willing to share them.

Day 1 TLW use quotation marks. Input 1. Show students a piece of writing without quotation marks and then the same piece with quotation marks. Explain that quotation marks show what a character is saying out loud. Use [|Quotation Marks Power Point] 2. Model how to correctly use quotation marks. See pages 272-275 of English textbook. 3. Provide guided practice--students where they write a sentence at a time. Check for understanding after each sentence. Independent practice Reteaching worksheet page 73

Day 2 TLW use quotation marks. TLW write a conversation between two characters. Input 1. Review how to use quotation marks. Watch a U-tube video on quotation marks. Use this as a teaching too. Stop and show them the proper use. Note: do not watch the entire video. Only the first portion. media type="youtube" key="RPB0pvd3eDQ?fs=1" height="385" width="480" 2. Place students in cooperative groups and have them arrange the premade sentence with the quotation marks. 3. Using a comic stirp, modle how to write a conversation between two comic strip characters. 4. After students finish their conversations, have them share. Independent activity with a partner, write a conversation between two characters (use Garfield comic strip about getting a Christmas present), write in journal if there is extra time

Day 3 TLW use quotation marks. Input 1. Review quotation marks. Independent activity write won conversation using a comic strip (use Garfield stiop about waking up in the morning), share their writing.

Day 4 TLW use a Word Processor to write quotation marks. Input 1. Model how to type quotation marks on the computer. Stress the spacing and how go from one line to the next. Independent activty with a partner type a conversations

Day 5 assessment