This Year 4 Direct or Indirect Speech Prior Learning worksheet is fantastic resource to use to assess children's understanding or writing direct speech before changing between direct and indirect speech. With three varied fluency, two reasoning and one application question, children are asked to identify where punctuation has been used incorrectly as well as continue written dialogue using direct speech.

Use this resource as a way to assess children's prior knowledge before moving on or alternatively, this could be used for those children who are less confident with speech.