Year 4 · SPaG · Direct speech
Year 4 direct speech together worksheet and PowerPoint
To practise together: recognising direct speech; punctuating direct speech; direct or indirect speech; direct speech with reporting verbs.
What this sheet covers
Each question comes from one of the lessons below. If a question is tricky, look back at that lesson’s sheet and slides.
| Recognising direct speech | Finding the spoken words in a sentence and telling direct from reported speech. |
|---|---|
| Punctuating direct speech | Inverted commas, capital letters, commas and end marks in direct speech. |
| Direct or indirect speech | Changing direct speech into reported speech and back. |
| Direct speech with reporting verbs | Reporting clauses at the start, middle and end of a sentence, with verbs other than said. |
Key words
- direct speech
- the exact words someone says
- inverted commas
- marks “ ” that go round direct speech
- reporting clause
- tells you who spoke: said Mum
- reported speech
- what was said, without the exact words
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Choose the lesson from this sheet that you found hardest. Write three new questions of your own for a friend, with an answer sheet, then swap and mark each other’s work.
Pupil target: I can remember what I have learned and use it.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the direct speech together PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 18 of 60 in the Year 4 SPaG scheme, in the block “Direct speech”.
Other lessons in this block
- Recognising direct speech
- Punctuating direct speech
- Direct speech with reporting verbs
- Direct or indirect speech
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