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WALT use our dialogue in our wirting

Focuses for writing this week
Explanation in my own words.
Where do speech marks go
You put them before or after.
How to put in other punctuation
It goes before the speech marks.
When to start a new line or when to keep writing
2 or 3 people talking
Different words for ‘said’
Replied responded said,asked
gasped,muttered chuckled whispered yelled told.
Adding adverbs
Respond politely. Asked politely screamed angrily.

EXAMPLES
“Who can I pick on?” asked Miss Ashley.
“Me” replied Timote.

“How was your day?” asked Hope.
“Great, thank you” replied Miss Ashley.

“How was your weekend” asked Dwyane.
“It was good” responded Havea.

If more than one person is talking, you put the reply underneath.
Mary was a beautiful girl who was wearing her long black hair in two plaits. She asked her mum, “can I go to the pools today?”.
“Why do you want to go” mum replied.
“It’s hot and I want to cool off”.
“Fine then”

If it’s only one person, you keep going.
Little red riding hood walked along the dirt path and thought to herself “I’m getting hungry”. She had walked a loooong way but the thought of warm apple pie when she got to grandma’s house kept her going.

MY GROUP’S EXAMPLE.
“How was your day?” asked Michael.
“It was great, it was fun” replied Lopi.
“Let’s go do fruit Lopi.”
He nodded in reply.How was your weekend said lopi?”.It was great I went to my baby cousins birthday”
Replied lopi.

“When are you finished lopi?”.said Michael.
When i’m finished replied lopi.