Write Dialogue With Interjections and Pauses

Teach conjunctions first, using the wildlife report as a review. Then use the interjection sheets with a narrative or speech unit, ending with the persuasive speech sheet.

Write a line for each scene that opens with an interjection and the mark that fits the feeling. The directions on the page read: For each scene, write what you would say on the 2 lines. Begin with an interjection, and follow it with the mark from the box that fits the feeling in bold. Leave out quotation marks. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 8th grade parts of speech, and it works the same at home or at school. At home, a student can work through it alone and then go over it with you, which shows quickly what is solid and what needs another look. In class it works as independent practice, homework or a warm-up, and you can print one copy or a full set.

The verb agrees with the nearer subject. In either a thief or the giants have taken it, giants is nearer, so the verb is have. Subjects joined by both and take a plural verb.

A concession clause admits a fact that works against the main idea, using although, even though, while or whereas. When it comes first, a comma follows it.

Interjections fit dialogue, stories and casual messages, but not reports or job letters. Students decide to keep or cut interjections in a lab report, a text and a speech, and rewrite some sentences formally.