Quotation Marks in Dialogue Worksheets for 3rd Grade
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Skill: Using quotation marks and commas in dialogue
Teaching tips and what to try next
Quotation marks go around the exact words someone says, and the comma or end mark usually goes inside them. Read a comic strip together and have your child turn one speech bubble into a sentence with quotation marks. Review Capital Letters and End Punctuation, or continue with Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-Ons.
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About this worksheet
Quotation marks show the exact words a person says. They make stories easier to follow because readers can tell who is talking. Third graders learn to put quotation marks around a speaker's words and to place the comma or end mark in the right spot. This third-grade worksheet practices both parts of that skill.
In Part A, children rewrite six sentences and add the missing quotation marks. Some sentences start with the speaker, such as "Mom asked, Did you brush your teeth?" and some end with the speaker, such as "Where is my backpack? asked Sam." The punctuation is already in place, so children focus on where the quotation marks go. In Part B, they read five pairs of sentences and write the letter of the one that is punctuated correctly. The wrong choices show the most common mistakes: a comma outside the quotation marks, a question mark in the wrong place, or a missing comma after "said."
How to use it: read a sentence aloud in two voices, a normal voice for the narrator and a different voice for the speaker. The words in the speaker's voice go inside the quotation marks. Remind your child of the rule that commas, periods, question marks, and exclamation points go inside the closing quotation mark. As a follow-up, have your child write a short conversation between two friends using what they learned.
The answer key shows every corrected sentence and the right letter for each pair. This worksheet supports Common Core standard L.3.2.c. Review end punctuation with our Capital Letters and End Punctuation worksheet.