Story Dramas for Grades 4-6Good Year Books, 1998 - 132 pages The teacher, playing the role of a park ranger, takes an "accident report" to find out what students know about that nasty fall taken yesterday by Humpty Dumpty. Developing similar strategies for engaging students imaginations, these two books encourage students to respond to stories by discussing and analyzing story elements as preparation for writing or acting out scenes. In addition to each books step-by-step directions for staging 30 or more story dramas based on specific popular books, both books train teachers to develop dramas for their own favorite literature. Grades 4-6. Illustrated. Good Year Books. |
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ACTIVITIES Ask students ADDITIONAL INFORMATION adlib aloud pages 1-2 animal Appelemando Ask volunteers Based beanstalk bird Chris Van Allsburg conflict discuss Draw a picture Eratosthenes evaluate Eve Bunting explore FICTION Read aloud FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES Ask GENRE Hiawatha historical fiction hurricane Iack interaction interview introduce their partner journal entry King Arthur Kwanzaa literary elements Magic School Bus newspaper Nokomis number all pages Officer Buckle opportunity pages starting person playacted playing poem poetry point of view pony express problem Put students Q Write questions Read aloud pages Read or listen rest Ruby Bridges Share ideas Shonto Begay showing students small groups solve Spedden STORY DRAMA students in pairs students in small students meet students the illustrations students to introduce students to Q teacher telling their name Underground Railroad Virginia Hamilton vocabulary volunteers to introduce warm-up activities Write a journal Write a letter written response