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Worksheet Description

This worksheet provides a dialogue between two characters, Jimmy and Mr. Walters, and asks students to rewrite the conversation in narrative form with correct punctuation. The dialogue is given in script format, with each speaker’s lines presented separately and the speaker’s name preceding their spoken words. Students must incorporate the dialogue into a cohesive paragraph, ensuring they use proper punctuation such as quotation marks, commas, periods, and capitalization. The lined space beneath the instructions is where students will write out the punctuated dialogue as part of a narrative.

The worksheet is designed to instruct students on integrating direct speech into narrative writing. It teaches them to convert dialogue from a script-like format into a format suitable for a story, where dialogue is woven into descriptive text. This exercise helps students learn how to include dialogue tags, punctuate speech correctly, and maintain the flow of a conversation within a narrative structure. By completing this task, students enhance their ability to write dialogues that are grammatically correct and contribute to the storytelling process.