Direct or Indirect Speech
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Direct or Indirect Speech
📚 Part 1: WALT and Success Criteria
WALT: We Are Learning To identify direct and indirect speech.
Success criteria:
• I can recognise speech written in quotation marks.
• I can identify whether a sentence is direct or indirect speech.
• I can explain the clues that helped me decide.
Remember: Direct speech gives the speaker’s exact words and uses quotation marks. Indirect speech reports what someone said without using the exact words.
Dyslexia-friendly option: Read each sentence aloud, use a ruler or coloured strip to track the line, and circle key clues such as quotation marks and reporting verbs.
✏️ Part 2: Direct or Indirect Speech?
Choose one answer for each sentence.
🌟 Part 3: Explain and Extend
Support: Work with a partner. Highlight the quotation marks in direct speech and look for words such as said, told, explained or asked.
Extension: Write your own example of direct speech and rewrite it as indirect speech. Check your punctuation and pronouns.
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