We have been looking at a number of different sentence skills as part of our narrative topic and today we focussed on speech. Working in pairs, we arranged our sentences so that the speech was punctuated correctly. We could then practise writing this as a sentence on our whiteboards, checking that we didn’t miss out any important punctuation.
New vocab!
Reporting clause : identifies the speaker. It can be found before, after or in the middle of speech.
- “Good morning, how are you all today?” said Miss Rushbrooke.
- Miss Rushbrooke said, “Good morning, how are you all today?”
- “Good morning,” said Miss Rushbrooke, “how are you all today?”