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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Three Anti Social Skills to Improve Your Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You need social skills to have a conversation in real life -- but they're quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few "anti-social skills," like eavesdropping and muttering to...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Character Clash: A Mini Lesson on Paragraphing and Dialogue

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for a minilesson that teaches about proper dialogue format while writing, specifically paragraphing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Handout
Caro Clarke

Caroclarke: Dialogue: The Best Action

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the fourteenth article in a series published with the goal of helping the new novel author. This article focuses on using dialogue to advance the action of the story. Links on the left offer other information about story writing.
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Handout
Other

Writing world.com: Writing Dialogue for Children

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A good site for teachers and writers looking to write for children, or teach children how to write dialogue. Includes tips and guidelines.