(music plays)

Charmain stands next to a wall touch screen with a definition of quotation marks. She is in her twenties, with black hair in a ponytail. She wears earrings, a white shirt under a blue T-shirt with a print that reads "Home Work Zone."

She says HI, TVO KIDS, TEACHER
CHARMAIN HERE.
GOOD WRITERS
USE QUOTATIONS
MARKS TO SHOW
WHEN SOMEONE
IS SPEAKING
IN THEIR WRITING.
QUOTATION MARKS JUST
LET US KNOW
EXACTLY WHAT THE
SPEAKERS WORDS ARE,
AND THEY LOOK LIKE
THE ONES THAT
I HAVE HERE,
THESE BIG HUGE
QUOTATION
MARKS.
IT LOOKS
LIKE A 66 WHEN
WE START THE
CONVERSATION,
AND THEN A 99
WE PUT THAT THE END,
AFTER THE PERSON HAS
STOPPED SPEAKING.
LET'S
GIVE IT A TRY.

She clicks on a top menu and sentences pop up.

She continues SO IT WAS PIZZA DAY
THE OTHER DAY
IN MY SCHOOL AND
ONE OF MY STUDENTS,
AATHAVAN CAME AND
ASKED ME,
"IS THE
PIZZA HERE YET?"
AND THEN I
REPLIED,
"IT WILL
BE HERE SOON,"
AND THEN HE WAS
JUST SO EXCITED
AND SAID,
"I CAN'T WAIT."
SO WE HAD A
CONVERSATION
OR A
DIALOGUE.
SO LET'S SEE WHERE
WE WOULD PUT
OUR
QUOTATION MARKS,
IF I WAS DOING THIS
IN MY WRITING.
SO AATHAVAN
STARTED BY ASKING,
"IS THE PIZZA
HERE YET?"
ASKED
AATHAVAN.
SO WHAT I WOULD
DO IS PUT
MY OPENING
QUOTATION, MY 66,
RIGHT WHERE HE STARTED
TO TALK,
AND THEN MY 99
WHERE HE FINISHED
SPEAKING.

She draws the quotation marks in blue.

She continues "IS THE PIZZA
HERE YET,"
ASKED
AATHAVAN.
THIS IS THE TAG TO
TELL US HOW
HE
SAID THAT.
AND THEN I
REPLIED,
"IT WILL
BE HERE SOON."
SO I WOULD PUT
THE 66 RIGHT
AT THE
BEGINNING OF WHERE
I STARTED TO
SPEAK,
AND PUT THE 99
OR THE CLOSING
QUOTATION RIGHT
AFTER THE WORD
SOON BECAUSE
THAT'S WHERE
I
FINISHED SPEAKING,
AND HERE'S MY TAG,
I REPLIED.
"REPLIED
TEACHER CHARMAIN."
THEN AATHAVAN BEING
SO EXCITED
FOR THE PIZZA,
SAID "I CAN'T WAIT!"
SO WE WOULD PUT
THE 66 RIGHT
AT THE
BEGINNING OF WHERE
HE STARTED
SPEAKING,
AND THEN
THE 99 WHERE HE
FINISHED SPEAKING
RIGHT AFTER
THAT
EXCLAMATION MARK,
"EXCLAIMED
AATHAVAN,"
AND THAT'S THE TAG TO
SHOW HOW HE SAID IT.
SO
THERE YOU GO!
WE USED QUOTATION
MARKS TO SHOW
OUR READERS
WHO'S SPEAKING
AND WHAT EXACTLY
THEY'RE SAYING,
AND THEN WE
USED TAGS TO LET
THE READER KNOW HOW
THEY SAID IT.
WAY TO GO,
YOU KNOW HOW TO
USE QUOTATION MARKS,
SO DON'T FORGET TO
USE THEM IN
YOUR WRITING.
HAVE A GREAT
DAY, TVO KIDS!