Narrative Writing Dialogue Tasks & Anchor Chart

This ready-to-print resource engages students in using dialogue effectively in their narrative writing stories. This comprehensive resource will support students in understanding the importance of dialogue, and provide activities to guide students in including dialogue in their narrative writing.

This resource includes a dialogue anchor chart which outlines the purpose of dialogue in a narrative writing story. This helps provide a starting point for a writing lesson and supports teachers in their explicit instruction. Additionally, a useful poster which outlines the key rules of using dialogue in writing, including 7 points about punctuation and structure.

To engage students in their learning, 5 activity pages focus on dialogue writing practice. These include:

• Punctuation
• Character voice
• Show, don’t tell
• Dialogue tags
• Dialogue and plot

Finally, this resource includes 3 pages of dialogue task cards. These provide students with a springboard to write a dialogue scenario. The tasks include a subject, who they are talking to, a topic, and mood.

To recap, with this printable resource you will get:

• Dialogue anchor chart
• Dialogue strategies and tasks
• Mini task cards for writing dialogue

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum. It is suitable for students in grades 5 and 6. This resource is a useful tool in supporting students with NAPLAN preparation and fostering success in general writing skills.

AC9E5LY06 – plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation