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Grade 5 Reading & Writing · World 5: Sentence Shipyard · Level 42
Dialogue
Punctuate exact words and attributions, including split lines.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 42
- Quotation marks go around a speaker's exact words. The attribution tells who said them.
- If the attribution comes first, put a comma before the quote, and capitalize the first word.
- If the quote comes first, use a comma inside the marks, unless it's a question or an exclamation.
- Split lines need two sets of marks. The second part stays lowercase if the sentence is still going.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 5.L.GC.1.47 — Mechanics: Use conventional capitalization, quotation marks, commas, end punctuation, and attributions to indicate exact words and lines of dialogue. (Introduce)