Use this engaging Year 3 Recognising Direct Speech Application and Reasoning worksheet to challenge your children to identify direct speech, punctuate direct speech correctly and use synonyms for said in the reporting clause. It is accompanied by our modelling PowerPoint to show children examples of these questions before they try them for themselves.

This worksheet has been differentiated three ways and has one reasoning and two application questions per level. It also comes with full answers to make marking quick and easy.