Focuses for writing this week
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Explanation in my own words.
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How to use speech marks
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Before and after the talking
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How to put in other punctuation
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They go before the speech markA
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When to start a new line or when to keep writing
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2 or more people are talking
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Different words for ‘said’
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Asked, replied, responded, yelled, screamed, shouted, mumbled, said, muttered, gasped, panting, chuckled, thought, told, uttered, continued, whispered
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Adding adverbs
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Responded politely,screamed angril
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EXAMPLES
“Who can I pick on?” asked Miss Ashley.
“Me” replied Timote.
“How was your day?” asked Hope.
“Great, thank you” replied Miss Ashley.
“How was your weekend” asked Dwyane.
“It was good” responded Havea.
If more than one person is talking, you put the reply underneath.
Mary was a beautiful girl who was wearing her long black hair in two plaits. She asked her mum, “can I go to the pools today?”.
“Why do you want to go” mum replied.
“It’s hot and I want to cool off”.
“Fine then”
If it’s only one person, you keep going.
Little red riding hood walked along the dirt path and thought to herself “I’m getting hungry”. She had walked a looooonng way but the thought of warm apple pie when she got to grandma’s house kept her going.
MY GROUP’S EXAMPLE.
One beautiful and sunny day three bff’s were going to adventure park at Leon’s house.
Railey asked “what should food should we get?”
Leon replied “We should get 3 boxes of pizza, 3 boxes of popcorn and 3 shape boxes also a lot of soda”
Fereti said “That will be a great idea Leon we will have the greatest adventure ever created from human kind!”