Underline Direct Speech

Worksheet Description

This worksheet features a short story set in a classroom where a teacher, Ms. Miller, is interacting with her students about solving a math problem. The narrative includes lines of direct speech, but they are not punctuated to indicate dialogue. Students are instructed to read the story, underline the direct speech, and then use colored markers or pencils to correctly punctuate the dialogue. This includes adding quotation marks and commas where necessary to separate the spoken words from the rest of the text.

The purpose of this worksheet is to educate students on how to properly identify and punctuate direct speech within a narrative. It aims to teach them where to place quotation marks to indicate someone is speaking and how to use commas to separate the dialogue from the tags that indicate who is speaking. The exercise helps students understand the visual and grammatical differences between spoken dialogue and descriptive text. By completing this task, students are expected to improve their ability to recognize and format dialogue correctly in their writing.