Year 4 · Conventions of language

Punctuation and dialogue

Punctuate dialogue with quotation marks, capitals, commas and sentence endings.

30 questions and practical tasks · 3 practice sets · filtered to VC2E4LA12

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Set 1

Questions 1–10

speech and reporting boundaries

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Questions 11–20

speech and reporting boundaries · editing dialogue in context

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Questions 21–30

editing dialogue in context

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Curriculum links

These activities map to the following Victorian Curriculum English Version 2.0 Level 4 content descriptions.

VC2E4LA11

Students learn how to punctuate direct speech using quotation marks, commas, capitals and end punctuation.

VC2E4LA12

Students learn the difference between exact spoken words and speech that is retold in the writer's own words.

VC2E4LY11

Students edit writing by improving meaning, content and structure, not just fixing spelling.

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