Teaching Speech in Writing BUNDLE: Direct, Reported and Passive - modelled, examples and practice

Teaching Direct Speech

In teaching direct speech for the past ten years with 3rd, 4th and 5th grade pupils, most difficult thing for children when writing narratives, interviews, recounts and so on, is remembering all the features which ensure correct speech.

For years, I thought there must be a way in which the children can learn a simple phrase in order to learn, apply and check speech writing within their own work. After trialling this system over the past few years with a number of different year groups with very different needs - this method works!

When you purchase this resource, you will be provided with full instructions of how to teach speech to your children. The step by step guide can take a child from 1st Grade up, and introduce, demonstrate, practice, refine, embed and master speech incredibly quickly.

The preview demonstrates the instructions with visual representations of how the punctuation resources and vocabulary cards are used. Please view the preview to see this in action.

Once the children have mastered this method, they can then turn the speech around to have the inverted commas at the end of the sentence with the "who, how, how, action" at the beginning of the sentence. If the children master that, they can then move on to broken speech, again using the same cards to support mastery.

Try it for yourself!

Teaching Reported Speech

This product will support your teaching of Reported Speech. Watch your children go from Zero Knowledge to Hero Knowledge in just one session!

A step by step demonstration, followed by two further examples for the children to follow, then a number of sentences to turn from direct speech to reported speech will allow your students to practice their new found skills.

With handy hints for the children to be aware of present and future tense, as well as changing pronouns, this resource will support your children changing direct speech to reported speech in no time at all - and enhance the quality of their writing.

Each slide has an answer key following it, and for many of the sentences, there are two different answers to show children the kinds of flexibility they can have in their own writing.

We hope that you find this resource useful for your teaching. It was successful within our own classrooms.

Teaching Passive Voice

This product provides a structured approach in teaching children initially how to turn active sentences into passive sentences through a step by step guided. Following this, and plenty of practice to embed the skills, the children then turn passive sentences into active sentences.

We have used this product with our children before completing the product and were amazed at how quickly the children were able to learn this grammar skill. Not only that, but an added benefit was engaging the children in learning to identify active and passive sentences within books and their own writing. They were able to edit sentences in their own writing and include more passive sentences as a way of controlling their own written work.

We think that this resource is useful for all teachers trying to address the objective of the active and passive voice in writing.

The product includes:

• Step by step guide in demonstrating to children (and adults) how an active sentence can be turned into a passive sentence by identifying the two nouns in the sentence, then flipping the nouns positions and finally rewriting the sentence to ensure it makes sense.
• Two further examples of changing one sentence to another
• 12 sentences with step-by-step reminders on the process of changing from active to passive
• 4 more sentences with no support for the children to embed their skills.
• 2 sentences with support to change from passive to active
• 8 sentences for children to practice and embed changing from passive to active.

We have included two versions of the file in the download - a PDF for use and also an editable PowerPoint activity, which allows the user to be able to edit the sentences and add further sentences to be able to use day after day after day until your children are secure in their learning.

We hope that you find this product as useful as we did with our students.

Best wishes

INSPIReducation