Throwback Thursday: Creative Dialogue

I'm back again for a double feature!  I couldn't miss out on Throwback Thursday!  There's no bells and whistles with this post, just a creative idea from a presentation a few years ago!  The post was originally created in April of 2011.

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Teaching dialogue has never been so much fun!  After having Melissa Forney present at school, teachers came away with exciting ideas for enhancing writing.  I am going nuts over dialogue with a creative twist. After the meeting, our first grade team put their heads together, asked parents to donate old magazines, and began a grade level dialogue writing contest. The kiddos browsed old images, looking for pictures with a twist.  The less sense the picture made, the more creative their dialogue became.  The focus for this lesson was quotation marks.  Brace yourself people and prepare to giggle...

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