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2. Your teacher will share with you a sample of a comic strip, or you might bring in one of your favorite comic strips. Mark the text with different colors for each character in the comic strip. Then transform the conversation in the comic strip into written dialogue in paragraph form. Remember to punctuate the dialogue correctly and use a variety of dialogue tags.
3. Share your dialogue with a partner and compare how you each wrote the words of the characters in the comic strip. How were your paragraphs alike? How were they different?
my Notes
Check Your Understanding
Create a Writer’s Checklist for using dialogue. Then use the checklist to revise your narrative to include dialogue.
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