Practicing Quotations with Comics

This rubric is designed to help students master the difficult task of effectively using quotation marks. Simply find a comic strip to provide the students with (should feature roughly 12 dialogue bubbles.) Students then transfer the comic into text using the rubric guidelines which require correct punctuation, indentation of paragraphs, and a variety of words in addition to "said." This project also easily lends itself to differentiation. Some students will completely focus on correctly writing the quotations, while advanced writers can add details to their writing. This is a motivating quotation lesson that is a nice change of pace from the grammar book.