Standards:
Punctuation 1.4: Use parentheses, commas in direct quotations, and apostrophes in the possessive case of nouns and in contractions.
Punctuation 1.5: Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to identify titles of documents.
Writing Applications 2.1: Write narratives: Provide a context to enable the reader to imagine the world of the event or experience.

Objective:
-Students will be able to use punctuation and capitalization in quotations correctly.
-Students will be able to use quotations correctly in their writing.

Anticipatory Set:
Ask students what quotation marks represent. Where do you see them? The teacher will explain a quotation is the exact words of a speaker. Quotation marks show where the speaker’s words begin and end.

Learning Activity:
Day One and Two:
The teacher will demonstrate on the white board the placement of quotation marks to represent speech. Punctuation with quotations will also be covered. Next students will be given sentence strips. The students will place quotation marks where they are supposed to go.

Day Three:
Guided writing: Students will write a dialogue between the characters Mrs. Frisby and Jeremy the crow from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. The teacher will provide guidance to students as they write.

Differentiated Instruction:
Sentence strips and quotation marks will be provided as manipulatives for students to easily change their placement of quotations.

Assessment:
The day three writing activity will be assessed using the following rubric guidelines:
Did the student use correct placement of quotation marks?
Did the student use correct placement of punctuation within the quotation marks?
Based on their writing, an additional day four writing activity is optional.

Closure:
Students may volunteer to read out loud their dialogues.