Stories and words
Three-Box Comic
A character goes somewhere new. Tell what happens in a beginning, a middle and an end.
Thinking sheet · Stories and words
What Are They Saying?
A velociraptor meets a unicorn. Fill the speech bubbles with their conversation.
- Grades
- K–5
- Time
- about 15 minutes
- Topic
- Stories and words
- Kids practice
- dialogue, character voice, punctuation of speech
What kids do
“These two just met. What do they say to each other?”
- Velociraptor
- Unicorn
- Keep the conversation going (use their names):
How to run it
- Ask how each one would talk: loud, shy, bossy, sweet?
- Older kids write the conversation with quotation marks.
- Act it out in pairs.
Talk about it
- How did you make the two voices different?
- Do they become friends?
- What would a third character say?
Take it further
Draw a comic of what happens next.
Pairs well with
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