direct and indirect speech worksheet for grade 4
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- Year 5
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- 7
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- Answer key
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- Grammar, Language Development, English
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- Direct and Indirect Speech, Worksheet for Year 5
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- Worksheets & Printables
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About this resource
Introduction
If you’re teaching direct and indirect speech and your students are having a hard time changing sentences correctly, this resource was made to give them extra practice in a simple and clear way. I created these exercises after noticing that many students understand the basic idea of reported speech but still struggle when changing pronouns, verbs, and commands correctly. So the goal here is just to give them enough repetition to feel more confident.
Objective:
Students will practice and reinforce their understanding of direct and indirect speech by working through a variety of straightforward grammar activities.
What’s Included:
5 no-prep grammar exercise sections
Practice with direct speech and indirect speech
Practice changing commands into reported speech
A mix of activities such as sentence rewriting, multiple choice, and fill in the blanks
Answer key included
Grades / Ages:
Best suited for Grade 4 students or beginner English learners
Implementation Format:
Printable PDF
Non-editable
Easy to print and use for classwork, homework, or review
Works well for independent practice or whole-class activities
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Convert a direct-speech sentence into indirect/reported speech, correctly shifting the pronoun and verb tense.
Convert a command in direct speech into a reported instruction using told...to.
Convert an indirect-speech sentence back into direct speech, including correct quotation marks and pronoun.
Identify the correctly reported version of a spoken sentence when given two options.
Teaching tips
Work through the sections in order, since sections 1-3 build the transformation skill in both directions (direct-to-indirect and indirect-to-direct) before section 4 tests recognition and section 5 isolates just the connecting word.
Use section 4's two-option format as a quick formative check before assigning the longer sections 1-3, since it isolates whether students can recognize a correctly formed sentence.
Assign section 5 as a fast warm-up or review, since it focuses only on the reporting word rather than a full sentence rewrite.
Skills covered
Direct-to-indirect speech conversion — students rewrite 10 direct-speech sentences (e.g. 'Sarah said, "I am happy"') into reported form.
Command-to-reported-speech conversion — students rewrite 10 imperative direct-speech commands (e.g. 'Wash your hands') into told...to reported form.
Indirect-to-direct speech conversion — students rewrite 10 reported sentences back into direct speech with correct punctuation.
Pronoun and tense-shift recognition — students identify the correctly converted sentence from two options in the multiple-choice section.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
Does the worksheet only practice statements, or also commands?
Both — sections 1 and 3 practice statements, while section 2 focuses specifically on converting commands, such as 'Wash your hands,' into reported instructions using told...to.
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Direct speech
Indirect/reported speech
Pronoun and tense shifts
Reporting verbs
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