Remember: Quotation marks and round brackets come in pairs: open one, then close it. Quotation marks hold spoken words; brackets hold a little extra bit.
Read and answer
Read the story, then answer.
Bolt's comicKofi was writing a comic about a robot called Bolt, and his little sister Ama read it over his shoulder. Kofi typed: Bolt said hello cloud. Ama frowned. "Who said hello, Bolt or the cloud?" Quotation marks show the words someone says out loud. One mark goes before the words and one goes after, the way two hands hold a cup. Kofi typed the first mark and Bolt's words, but then forgot the second mark! Now the whole page was Bolt talking, and the talking never stopped. Next, Bolt whispered a secret, so Kofi put it in round brackets. Brackets hold a little extra bit: take it out, and the sentence still works. Marks and brackets come in pairs, so if you open one, always close it.
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What do quotation marks show?
➕a little extra bit🗨️the words someone says out loud⏺️the end of a sentence
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One quotation mark at the start of the words is enough.
TrueFalse
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What goes inside round brackets?
📚the whole story💬the spoken words➕a little extra bit
Keys, pairs and fixes
Marks and brackets come in pairs. Open one, then close it.
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Join each mark to the keys that make it.
1quotation mark
2opening bracket
3closing bracket
4question mark
Ashift and the zero key
Bshift and the nine key
Cshift and the apostrophe key
Dshift and the slash key
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The blue keys make a mark. Which one?
a quotation markthe closing bracket )the opening bracket (
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Shift and the 9 key open a bracket. Shift and the blank key close it. Write the number on the blank key:
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Kofi types Ama said, then some speech. Number the steps.
Type the words that are said
Type Ama said and a comma
Close with a second quotation mark
Open with a quotation mark
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Circle every line that needs quotation marks.
Ama whispered, I see itBolt asked what time it wasKofi shouted, here I comeThe cloud felt happy
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Kofi typed: Bolt said, "Hello! What does the line need?
a second quotation mark after Hello!a round bracket after Hello!nothing, it is fine
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Kofi typed: Bolt (the robot waved. He must close the bracket.
TrueFalse
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Stretch: how many quotation marks are in this line?
Copy and write
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Copy it. "Hello!" said Bolt.
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Write one line where Bolt speaks, and one little extra bit in round brackets.
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Answer key · Set A
Pairs that open and close
1the words someone says out loud Quotation marks hold the words someone says out loud.
2False Quotation marks come in pairs: one goes before the words and one goes after.
3a little extra bit Brackets hold a little extra bit. Take it out, and the sentence still works.
41-C, 2-B, 3-A, 4-D The quotation mark is shift and the apostrophe key. The brackets are shift with nine to open and zero to close.
5the opening bracket ( Shift and the nine key make the opening bracket. Nine opens, and zero closes.
60 The zero key closes the bracket: nine opens it, zero closes it.
73, 1, 4, 2 First the speaker, then open the marks, then the spoken words, and last close the marks.
8Ama whispered, I see it, Kofi shouted, here I come Spoken words need quotation marks. A line that only tells what happened, like Bolt asked what time it was, needs none.
9a second quotation mark after Hello! He opened the marks but never closed them, so the talking never stops. Always close what you open.
10True A bracket that is opened must be closed: Bolt (the robot) waved.
114 There are two pairs of marks around Look and a rainbow, so four marks. The brackets are a pair as well.
13Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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