Lesson Plan

Making Magical Creatures Talk

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Invite your young writers to take the reins with writing dialogue. Using two characters of their own creation, kids work with partners and then individually to write short conversations.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Instructional Ideas
  • Extend the activity by asking learners to write a story in which they can insert their newly written dialogue
Classroom Considerations
  • This plan builds off a previous lesson that is not included; the main thing that pupils will need to do before this dialogue activity is to create characters
Pros
  • Includes the excerpt from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that pupils are meant to examine
  • Comes with a worksheet that learners can fill out when writing their dialogue
  • Focuses on writing dialogue as well as punctuating it properly
Cons
  • None