Kim Roedema and Emilee D’Angelo

Dialogue Lesson

1.Title or Topic of the Lesson and Grade Level: Dialogue Review 5th Grade

2. Lesson Essential Question(s): What is dialogue? How can we use dialogue in our writing?

3. Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.B

Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences

and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

4. A. Learning Objectives and Assessments:

Learning Objectives Assessments

Students will be able to generate their own We will pre-assess the students about what they

conversation using dialogue between two know about dialogue with a graphic organizer we

characters. create as a class.

We will see what students learned through the

exit ticket on one thing they have learned about

dialogue.

Students will be able to correctly use punctuation We will post assess the students with their

in their dialogue. dialogue story/script.

5. Materials:

● Poster paper

● 3 paper cubes

● White-board
 ● Markers

● loose leaf paper/writing notebooks

6. Pre-lesson assignments and/or prior knowledge: Students are writing narrative pieces. They

have been taught dialogue before but many students often don’t include it in their writing.

7. Lesson Beginning: First, we will ask them what they learned about dialogue previously. As they

answer, will create a graphic organizer on the white board including all their ideas and have

them take notes on it.

8. Instructional Plan:

After creating the graphic organizer on the board, we will call students to the rug. We will teach them

about how to use dialogue in their writing and how to use punctuation by explaining with the above

anchor chart’s examples. We will have them copy our rules and examples in their writing notebooks for

them to use when they write. We will have some practice phrases written under the rules for the
students to come up and correct/complete the punctuation based on the checklist. Back at their desks,

we will ask students to turn to a clean page in their writing notebook and use the character dice and the

setting dice to create a dialogue story. Before they write, we will model an example for them to get

them started:

One summer day, the sun was shining all the way to the bottom of the deep blue sea. The ocean was

very blue and clear as diamonds. Spongebob wanted to enjoy this beautiful day by laying on the hot

sand with his friend, the Big Bad Wolf. He ran inside and called him on his shellphone. “Hey, what are

you doing right now?” asked Spongebob. “Just hanging by the ocean, wanna join me?” answered the Big

Bad Wolf.

o Differentiation: We will model the activity we will be asking them to do in front of the whole class.

We will write and read our example for students to understand before they write on their own.

We will give the students some practice phrases to input dialogue quotations/punctuation under

the dialogue checklist after modeling it for them.

o Questions: How do we write using dialogue? What is dialogue? What punctuation goes with dialogue?

o Classroom Management: We will have our dialogue poster pre written to show to the students. We

will have students pass out the dice to each table. We will use popsicle sticks to select students to share

at the end of the lesson.

o Transitions: We will call the students by table to the rug.

9. Closure: We will use popsicle sticks to chose 3 students to share their stories. Students will perform

an exit ticket, writing one thing they learned about dialogue. We will read a few great ones to

summarize the lesson for the class.