Ack! My third grader just came home with the following worksheet completed:
"To make dialogue more interesting, writers use other verbs instead of said. Look in your book for synonyms for said and write them in the speech balloons. Add any other synonyms you can think of, and look in a thesaurus for even more."
shouted
whispered
screamed
shrugged
laughed
offered
complained
ordered
"Nooooooooooo!" I said. "Just use 'said'!"
What are they teaching our children these days?
Vent over...back to your regularly scheduled AW.
"To make dialogue more interesting, writers use other verbs instead of said. Look in your book for synonyms for said and write them in the speech balloons. Add any other synonyms you can think of, and look in a thesaurus for even more."
shouted
whispered
screamed
shrugged
laughed
offered
complained
ordered
"Nooooooooooo!" I said. "Just use 'said'!"
What are they teaching our children these days?
Vent over...back to your regularly scheduled AW.