Engage your students in understanding the effects of dialogue tone on readers with this fun card game. This resource encourages students to form opinions on tone in literature and understand how dialogue influences reader perception. It is ideal for fostering critical thinking and interactive learning.

To play the game, students will match dialogue snippets to their corresponding tones to create sets. Each set must have a tone card and two dialogue cards to match. Swap, steal and choose cards add excitement and strategy to the game. This download includes an instructions page, 21 tone cards, 42 dialogue cards, 9 interrupt cards and a list of suggested answers.

While this resource has been designed to be played in small groups, it can also be played independently as a matching game, where students simply match the dialogue cards with an appropriate tone card. Extend your students’ learning by having them write their own dialogue snippets to match the tone cards.