What’s Missing

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is a teaching tool designed to help students learn how to properly punctuate dialogue in sentences. It presents a series of sentences that are meant to represent spoken words but lacks the necessary punctuation to clearly indicate speech. Students are instructed to add the missing punctuation to each sentence. The absence of quotation marks, commas, periods, and capitalization in these sentences provides a blank slate for practice.

The worksheet aims to teach students the rules of punctuating dialogue, which is an important aspect of writing. By adding the correct punctuation, students learn how to differentiate between the spoken words and the rest of the sentence. The exercise helps students understand how to use quotation marks to enclose someone’s exact words and how to integrate dialogue tags, such as “he said” or “she asked,” within a narrative. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of punctuation in clarifying the meaning of sentences and enhancing readability.