Students learn to punctuate what people say: speech marks around the spoken words, a capital letter to start the speech, and a comma, question mark or exclamation mark before the closing speech mark. They choose correctly punctuated sentences, add speech marks to sentences, and write a short conversation. Correct dialogue punctuation makes stories much easier to follow.
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Curriculum: Australian Curriculum. We show specific outcome codes only where they have been verified against the official curriculum document.
Completed: Speech Marks
Year 3 students (typically ages 8–9) working on punctuation. It is pitched at level 2 · standard.
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About 18 minutes for 13 questions. Short, regular sessions work best: two or three a week beats one long one.
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Try Commas: Lists and Pauses.
Year 3 · English · Punctuation
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Speech marks show exactly what someone said. Only the spoken words go inside them.
Speech marks go around the words someone actually says. Circle the sentence that is punctuated correctly.
Rewrite each sentence with speech marks in the right places.
Circle True or False.
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