2.3 Writer's Workshop: Short Stories
Revising - Part Four - Add Dialogue or Enhance Your Use of Dialogue:
Dialogue (words that are spoken) helps the reader to learn more about the characters and events. If you haven't used dialogue yet, try adding it in a couple of places. It should enhance the story but there doesn't need to be so much it becomes the story.
Then, think if words to say instead of "said". Here is a tool for this that you may want to print and keep for future projects and grades.