Guest Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Hello! My 3rd grader started Unit 5 today in IEW, which is Writing from Pictures. When I watched the DVD seminar the other night on this unit, Andrew Pudewa said this was a great time to use quotes (or dialogue). I didn't even mention that to my son, and he included in his keyword outline a bunch of quotes. (i.e. Tom said, Susan said, Tom said, etc.) We haven't covered this in grammar yet (and hence I haven't dealt with it in years!) and I wasn't sure what the rules were and what my son, at this age, needs to do. From my memory, each person talking gets a new paragraph, right? So, when you're doing IEW, would all that dialogue just count as the one paragraph? Is that how I want to handle it with my son? Can someone give me a basic how to teach using dialogue/quotes??? I'm pretty sure I don't want him to just put all the quotes in one paragraph, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloha2U Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 R&S English 5 covers (only) quotations in Chapter 8. R&S English 6 addresses quotations and dialogue in Chapter 7. But to briefly summarize... Exact words of a speaker or writer are a direct quotation. The other words in the sentence are called explanatory words. Direct quotation are put at different places in sentences for variety. Sometimes the quotation comes first, and sometimes it comes last. To write a sentence in which the direct quotation comes first, use the following rules. 1. Place quotation marks around the quoted words. 2. Begin the quotation with a capital letter. Sometimes the comes quotation comes first, and sometimes it comes last. 3. Place the correct punctuation at the end of the quoted words. Use a comma after a statement or command, a question mark after a question, and an exclamation point after an exclamation. The mark at the end of the quoted words comes before the ending quotation marks. 4. Put a period after the explanatory words at the end of the sentence. A period is used because the whole sentence is usually a statement, even though the direct quotation may be a question or an exclamation. To write a sentence in which the direct quotation comes last, use the following rules. 1. Place quotation marks around the quoted words. 2. Begin the first word of the sentence and the first word of the direct quotation with capital letters. The second capital letter is used because the speaker's words are a sentence within a longer sentence. 3. Place a comma at the end of the explanatory words. This comma is placed before the beginning quotation marks. 4. At the end of the quotation, place a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point, depending on whether the quotation tells, asks, or exclaims. The mark at the end of the quoted words comes before the ending quotation marks. Dialogue in a story is written conversation. The rules for writing dialogue are as follows: 1. Put quotation marks at the beginning and end of each quotation. Do not put quotation marks around every sentence. 2. Begin a new paragraph each time a *different* person begins to speak. 3. Use variety in dialogue. HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyontheFarm Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Are you part of the IEW Yahoo group? They answer questions like that over there, all the time. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/IEWfamilies/files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Oh man, I almost forgot about this thread and for some reason I missed the responses. Thank you so much!!!! Both of these responses are super helpful. :) ETA: Just joined the IEW yahoo group! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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