Name: Speech Marks Date: _______ Grade: Primary 3 Duration: 45 minutes

Objectives:

• Recognize the use of speech marks to identify dialogue in written texts
• Understand the rules for using speech marks
• Identify and create simple sentences using speech marks

Activities:

• Warm Up Activity: Give each student a piece of paper with a written text containing dialogue and ask them to identify which quotation marks (speech marks) have been used.

• Main Activity: Have the students create a poster with examples of sentences that use speech marks. Follow up by playing a game – pass the sentences – where a student reads a sentence they have created and passes it to the next student who adds part of the sentence and passes it on.

• Closure Activity: Ask students to give examples of when they have seen speech marks used in texts.

Assessment Strategies:

• Observe student participation in the warmup and main activities.
• Grade the posters.
• Ask students questions throughout the course of the lesson.
• Review the sentences created in the pass the sentence game.

Timings:

• 5 minutes: Warm up activity
• 25 minutes: Main activity
• 15 minutes: Closure activity

Plenary:

To summarize and assess student knowledge on speech marks, end the lesson by asking students to share examples of sentences they have created using speech marks. Encourage the students to provide a brief explanation of why it is important to use speech marks.