Remember that time I tore a book a part to use it in a lesson? Yeah, I did that last week.
We have started really working on narratives, specifically we were looking closely at dialogue and the kids needed to see ALL the different parts - the quotation marks, the punctuation, the REST of the quote... so I tore up a Charlotte's Web book (that was already ripped in half), and each student ended up with a different page.
Charlotte's Web is the novel we have been reading for the past 3 weeks anyway, so they were familiar with the story and the different chapters. I had them glue the page to the middle of the colored copy paper, and they had to rewrite 4 different quotes - one had to be from the page that they were given, the others could be something that stuck out for them in the book.
The kids really GOT this activity. As they turned them in, so many of them had to go back to look at it once again... to fix this or that. Did you know that quotations marks need 2 sets? That you can't forget the comma or the punctuation mark before the second set of quotation marks? That usually there is more to the quote, for instance how the character is saying it? So many little things that the kids learned. I counted this as really good practice that was relative. I've already seen improvements in their narratives. Win win!
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