Punctuating Dialogue and Embedding Quotations ELA Game | Grammar Activity
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Are your students STILL putting periods and commas in the wrong places when punctuating dialogue or embedding direct quotations? You could continue banging your head against the wall, or...you could make a light-hearted review out of the issue by playing this game with your junior high or high school students.
This game focuses on the punctuation aspect of embedding quotations and formatting dialogue. The 72 question cards included cover placement of commas, colons, brackets, parentheses, ellipses, quotation marks, exclamation points, periods, and question marks in narrative writing (dialogue), research writing (direct quotes), and literary analysis essays (quoting literature). An answer key is included for your convenience as are suggested rules and use.
Prep for the PRINT game includes:
- Read the directions.
- Choose a game board.
- Print the game board.
- Choose a set of questions.
- Print & cut up the prompt cards. (Laminate for extended use!)
- Play!
Prep for the DIGITAL game includes:
- Read the directions.
- Choose a game board. Make a copy of that slide and push it out to students on your learning management system.
- Choose a set of questions (or use both) and push them out to students on your learning management system.
- Identify a random number generator (like Google’s) that students will use to select prompts.
- Choose your groups.
- Play!
Before playing, students should have received instruction about how to embed quotations and punctuate dialogue. This game is intended to be a review or practice of MLA punctuation rules, not the initial instruction. Some of the practice sentences contain in-text citations because they are part of a direct quote. Other example sentences are straight dialogue with no internal citation.
If you need tools to provide direct instruction for these skills, you can find them here!
- Citing MLA direct quotes for research writing
- Punctuating dialogue and dialogue tags for narrative writing
This game usually takes one full forty-five minute class period to play.
This embedding quotations and punctuating dialogue game is now both EDITABLE and DIGITAL! The original print play options for in-person learning are still included as well. Upon download, you will find the links for the Google Slides© digital version on the first page of the PDF.
This game is also part of my growing ELA games bundle. If you've already purchased that resource, you will have access to this one. Just re-download the teaching resource to get the updates.
Need more practice materials for embedding quotations? Try these embedding quotations station activities for high school students.
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