Rewrite the Story

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is a teaching tool designed to help students practice punctuating dialogue correctly. It presents a short story about a girl named Emma who initially does not want to go bowling but ends up enjoying it after a successful first attempt. Students are tasked with rewriting the narrative as a dialogue, applying appropriate punctuation marks as they do so. The lines provided below the story prompt students to write their version of the dialogue.

The primary aim of this worksheet is to enhance students’ understanding of dialogue punctuation rules in written English. By transforming the given narrative into a conversation, students learn how to use quotation marks, commas, periods, and capitalization within dialogues. This exercise encourages them to distinguish between the spoken words and the rest of the sentence. Additionally, it helps to contextualize the use of dialogue within a narrative, showing students how direct speech can bring stories to life.