What a great way to get students to learn dialogue, through a cliff hanging story. Students can identify dialogue within a text and how it is created in a different way.

4 Lessons

Grade: 3-5

Dialogue- 300 Minutes of Danger

This mini-unit will guide students through the skill of effectively recognising and using dialogue. This unit uses the text ‘300 Minutes of Danger’ by Jack Heath and creates opportunities for students to be dialogue detectives. These lessons can also be completed as stand-alone lessons or used with other texts with amazing dialogue.

What a great way to get students to learn dialogue, through a cliff hanging story. Students can identify dialogue within a text and how it is created in a different way.

4 Lessons

Grade: 3-5

Dialogue- 300 Minutes of Danger

This mini-unit will guide students through the skill of effectively recognising and using dialogue. This unit uses the text ‘300 Minutes of Danger’ by Jack Heath and creates opportunities for students to be dialogue detectives. These lessons can also be completed as stand-alone lessons or used with other texts with amazing dialogue.

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Essential Question/s

How do authors effectively use dialogue to capture the reader's attention?

General Capabilities

Literacy
Critical and Creative thinking

Lessons

4 Lessons

Lesson 1

What a great way to get students to learn dialogue, through a cliff hanging story. Students can identify dialogue within a text and how it is created in a different way.

Lesson
Writing

300 Minutes Of Danger - Dialogue Detectives

Grades: 3-5

Identify dialogue and explain its purpose in texts.

Lesson 2

Students use hands-on learning to recreate sentences using dialogue. This activity links to the Jack Heath book ‘300 Minutes of Danger’

Lesson
Writing

300 Minutes of Danger- Developing Dialogue

Grades: 3-5

Effectively recreate sentences using a range of dialogue.

Lesson 3

Said is not DEAD! This lesson supports students in understanding that said has a range of synonyms that can be used to make writing engaging. This image shows other words students can use in dialogue other than the word said.

Lesson
Writing

300 Minutes of Danger- Said is Not Dead

Grades: 3-5

Identify the use of the word ‘said’ in dialogue and develop a range of synonyms to improve writing.

Lesson 4

Let your students get creative, with this comic strip dialogue activity. Supporting students to use dialogue in their writing like Jack Heath does in “300 Minutes of Danger”.

Lesson
Writing

300 Minutes of Danger-Comic Strip Dialogue

Grades: 3-5

Identify in a text where dialogue could be used to entertain the reader.

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