One popular technique that English teachers often encourage their students to apply is to insert interesting dialogues to make their stories come alive. When your child uses dialogues in his/her stories, this helps to:

• Capture the readers’ attention right from the start
• Create excitement and suspense by hinting what’s coming up next
• Shed light on the personality of the characters

To help your child level up their creative writing skills, we’ve come up with a list of useful and vivid verbs that he/she can use instead of the regular ‘said’ or ‘replied’ in direct speech. This definitely helps to convey the character’s feelings and intentions more clearly.