dialog

Focuses for writing this week
Explanation in my own words.
How to use speech marks
Before your talk and after your talk
How to put in other punctuation
Any punctuation has to go before the speech marks 
When to start a new line or when to keep writing
When 2 or 3 people are talking
Different words for ‘said’
Asked, replied, responded, yelled, screamed, shouted, mumbled, said, muttered, gasped, panting, chuckled, thought, told, uttered, continued, whispered
Adding adverbs
Responded politely, asked politely, screamed angrily,

EXAMPLES
“Who can I pick on?” asked Miss Ashley.
“Me” replied Timote.

“How was your day?” asked Hope.
“Great, thank you” replied Miss Ashley.

“How was your weekend” asked Dwyane.
“It was good” responded Havea.

If more than one person is talking, you put the reply underneath.
Mary was a beautiful girl who was wearing her long black hair in two plaits. She asked her mum, “can I go to the pools today?”.
“Why do you want to go” mum replied.
“It’s hot and I want to cool off”.
“Fine then”

If it’s only one person, you keep going.
Little red riding hood walked along the dirt path and thought to herself “I’m getting hungry”. She had walked a looooonng way but the thought of warm apple pie when she got to grandma’s house kept her going.


MY GROUP’S EXAMPLE.
“Hi Maani How’s your day”asked Vina
“Yeah it's been fine How’s yours?” replied Maani
“Oh me too is fine to day” responded  Vina
“What did you do” replied Maani
“Nothing” said Vina