Georgia 2.L.GC.1.30

ELA2nd GradeGrammar, Usage, & Mechanics

The Standard

Mechanics: Recognize and use conventional capitalization, quotation marks, and commas to indicate exact words and dialogue. (Introduce)

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students identify the exact words spoken by a person or character. They use capital letters, quotation marks, and commas to show where dialogue begins and ends.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can identify the exact words a character says. They can write dialogue such as Ava said, “I am ready,” with correct capitalization, quotation marks, and comma placement.
Common Misconceptions: Students may put quotation marks around the speaker’s name instead of the spoken words. They may forget to capitalize the first spoken word or place the comma outside the quotation marks.
How to Assess It: Give students this sentence: Ava said I packed my lunch. Ask them to add capitalization, quotation marks, and a comma.

Lesson moves

Give pairs word cards and punctuation cards, then have them build and punctuate the sentence Ben said I lost my hat.
Compare a punctuated dialogue sentence with an unpunctuated version, then ask students which one is clearer and why.
Play Dialogue Detective by having students find and correct missing capitals, commas, and quotation marks in five short sentences.
Have partners interview each other about a favorite food, then write one exact answer as correctly punctuated dialogue.

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