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Overview of Y2 Summer Term

SPEECH MARKS FOR SPOKEN WORDS

Truth to Teach (Source)

Proverbs 16:13-24 Pleasant, truthful and wise words do people good.

 To introduce speech marks

Way to Work (Means)

1. Review full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.

2. Explain that there are more signs to learn, to serve the readers of our writing. Ask the
children to tell you the first words God spoke in the Bible. (”Let there be light!”) Write these
on the board without speech marks. Next put a speech bubble around the words with a line
joining them to the name of God.

Let there be light!

God

Explain that there are no speech bubbles in the Bible. Ask the children how we know what
people actually say (Spoken words will have speech marks around them.) Clarify that when
drawing pictures or cartoons you can add speech bubbles showing what people say but that
in continuous text you use speech marks.

3. Write out a sentence now showing correct use of speech marks. Begin with the speaker, e.g.: -

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me.”

Some children will pick up speech marks straight away; others will need to go round it in
successive years before they master it. It helps some children to explain that as number
sixty-six comes before ninety-nine, so the shape for opening your speech marks [“] looks
similar to the former number and that which shows the end of a remark [”] is similar to
ninety-nine.

4. Continue with further examples, including ones in which there are some extra words before
the direct speech, for example:-

Jesus said to his disciples, “You are the salt of the earth.”

5. Give plenty of practice, allowing the children to come to the board and put in speech marks in
a sentence you have already written out.

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