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3rd - 6th Grade Dialogue Resources : Page 3

Let your fourth grader dig deep into their imagination to come up with their own adventure for A.J. and C.K., in this fill-in-the-blank comic strip.

Cat Comics: Joy Ride!

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

Freeze Theater

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

Close Reading: Introduction

In this lesson, students will use their creativity, a graphic organizer, and a fun story to learn about character analysis.  

It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

Expose your students to the wonderful genre of drama, but be sure to teach them the important key terms so they understand the structure. Use this as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson for the *Putting a Play Together!* lesson.

Parts of a Drama

Nourish your child's inner writer with this lesson on three different forms of literature: poetry, prose, and drama. After going through some examples of each, students will demonstrate their knowledge by filling out bubble maps.

Poetry, Prose, and Drama, Oh My!

Use this lesson to teach your students how people survived in the New England colonies when they were first created.


The New England Colonies: Economy

Students will have a blast turning a reading passage into a Reader's Theater skit. This lesson teaches them to use dialogue to help readers understand the experiences of different characters.

Action! Students Create Reader's Theater

Change is inevitable, even for story characters! In this lesson, your students will determine how a character changes throughout a story by focusing on the character’s dialogue and actions.

Characters Change Just Like We Do

Start a dialogue around area models! In this lesson, encourage students to ask questions as they multiply using area models. Use this lesson on its own or as support to the lesson Area Models and Multiplication.

Area with Multiplying and Adding

In this lesson, students will engage in inquiry, a powerful mindfulness practice to work with judgements about oneself and others.

Making Judgements: Is it True?

Students will have a blast creating their own cartoons and comics. This lesson provides an engaging method to help students demonstrate the use of quotation marks when writing.

Who Said It?

Give your class the "write" tools they need to become excellent authors. In this literary lesson, students use their knowledge of author's purpose to successfully write pieces that persuade, inform, and entertain.

Author's Purpose: Easy as PIE

Your students will surely exclaim, "This is fun!" in response to this writing lesson. It covers topics that range from dialogue punctuation to sentence types, and will definitely help improve reading comprehension skills.

Punctuating Dialogue

Do your students need guidance in online peer conferences? If you need to teach your students how to collaborate in an online writing conference, then this lesson plan is for you! 

E-etiquette and Digital Dialogue

This lesson challenges young learners to add dialogue to their writing. Students will love using their creativity to write personal narratives. 

Narrative Writing: Adding Dialogue

Students often understand the basic conventions of writing, but may need support in incorporating these skills into their work. In this lesson, students will review some of the more common capitalization and punctuation errors and apply their editing skills to real writing.

Editing for Capitalization and Punctuation

Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.

Interesting Introductions

Teach young writers some commonly used strategies to pace their narrative writing. Students will learn to use formatting, dialogue, and description to speed up or slow down their piece. 

Pacing Strategies

This lesson will have your EL students exploring characters&#39; dialogue and actions to determine their personality traits! Use it on its own or as a support lesson.

Discovering Character Traits

What if Cinderella’s stepsisters weren’t really evil? In this engaging lesson, you will introduce your students to multiple points of view and discuss how these different perspectives can change a reader’s experience.

Whose Point Is It Anyway?

Using this lesson plan, your students will synthesize literary information by reimagining storyline outcomes. Substituting characters from their favorite texts and reimagining the effects will excite and bring your class new insights!

Mash-Up Reading Reflections!

Quoting is a valuable skill in today's education. Lead your students on the right path with explicit instruction that will stick. Then, back it up with hands on practice on and experience in their own leveled chapter books.

What's a Quote? (Bud, Not Buddy, Part II)

Create conversations about character changes! Use this lesson plan as a stand-alone lesson for practicing sequencing words in evidenced-based claims about a character, or before the Characters Change Just Like We Do lesson.

Evidence of Character Changes

Help your ELs identify the characters and their dialogue in a story. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Action! Students Create Reader’s Theater* lesson.

Characters and Dialogue

Figurative language can be difficult, especially for ELs. With the help of context clues and exposure to common idioms, it can be a piece of cake! Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the *Take a Walk with Idioms* lesson.

Working with Idioms

Let’s put it all together! In this lesson, students will explore the different parts of a drama or play. By the end of the lesson they will be able to define terminology related to plays and give examples of the unique genre features!

Putting a Play Together!

If young writers can learn how to write a solid paragraph, then they have the building blocks of an essay. In this lesson, students will study paragraph structure and practice organizing ideas into paragraphs.  

Paragraphs That POP!

So your students are going to write a narrative? Use these prewriting exercises to help them choose an idea and plan out their story.  

Narrative Prewriting Activities

Help your EL students find and record quotes as evidence in nonfiction texts with the help of introductory phrases and sentence frames. This can support the lesson Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts.

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