This document provides a template for a "Dialogue Bubble Activity" writing assignment for middle or high school students. The activity has students find pictures of famous faces from newspapers or magazines, cut them out and paste them into a paper. Students then draw speech bubbles for each face and invent a conversation by writing what each person would say in their matching speech bubble. The rationale given is that it encourages creative writing by having students write dialog related to familiar pictures. However, it may not be suitable for lower level students who cannot yet form sentences.
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This document provides a template for a "Dialogue Bubble Activity" writing assignment for middle or high school students. The activity has students find pictures of famous faces from newspapers or magazines, cut them out and paste them into a paper. Students then draw speech bubbles for each face and invent a conversation by writing what each person would say in their matching speech bubble. The rationale given is that it encourages creative writing by having students write dialog related to familiar pictures. However, it may not be suitable for lower level students who cannot yet form sentences.
This document provides a template for a "Dialogue Bubble Activity" writing assignment for middle or high school students. The activity has students find pictures of famous faces from newspapers or magazines, cut them out and paste them into a paper. Students then draw speech bubbles for each face and invent a conversation by writing what each person would say in their matching speech bubble. The rationale given is that it encourages creative writing by having students write dialog related to familiar pictures. However, it may not be suitable for lower level students who cannot yet form sentences.
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This document provides a template for a "Dialogue Bubble Activity" writing assignment for middle or high school students. The activity has students find pictures of famous faces from newspapers or magazines, cut them out and paste them into a paper. Students then draw speech bubbles for each face and invent a conversation by writing what each person would say in their matching speech bubble. The rationale given is that it encourages creative writing by having students write dialog related to familiar pictures. However, it may not be suitable for lower level students who cannot yet form sentences.
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Show and Tell Presentation Template
Name of your writing activity:
Dialogue Bubble Activity
Teaching Context Level of students Grade Level beginner ◆intermediate advanced Middle School 1 Middle School 2 mixed level Middle School 3 ◆High School 1 High School 2 High Number of Students School 3 <10 10-20 ◆20-40 Class Time Other; please specify __________ ◆Regular Class Afterschool Class 50 min 90 min Other; please specify __________
Activity Description What writing skills does this activity teach? •to make a story based on the pictures given •to practice to write for functional everyday language
List steps/instructions required to perform this activity.
1. Look in newspaper or magazine. 2. Find the faces of famous people. 3. Cut the faces out and paste it into the paper 4. Draw speech bubbles for each. 5. Invent a conversation and write the speech each person is saying in the matching bubbles.
Rationale Why would you use this writing activity in your classroom? •To encourage the students to write by providing the familiar sources happening around them. •To help them to be creative about writing. •To give them the chance to write down the conversational dialogue related to pictures.
Could this activity be easily adapted to different teaching contexts? If so how? If not, why not? I don’t think it can be adapted for the lower level students. It is because this activity can be successfully applied only if the students are at least able to make a sentence. However, it can combine writing with speaking if letting students talk each other to make a story and present it to the class. Activity Strengths Activity Weaknesses
Intriguing because it can be related to Not easy to make a story for the lower level artistic work. students
Can link familiar resources to writing. Hard to find the appropriate pictures
