Rewrite as reported speech for each of these:
“Where is my bag” asked Ben.
“We need to be quick” said Dad.
“Can we go to the fair” asked the children.
“We are going to bake a cake” the teacher explained.
Ben asked where his bag was.
Dad said they needed to be quick.
The children asked if they could go to the fair.
The teacher explained that they were going to bake a cake.