Hand out the lyrics with words missing and make it into a cloze listening exercise, change some of the words to similar - sounding (but incorrect) words and have your students correct the mistakes, or have
your students act out the story.
When you have finished reading, have
students act out the story.
Not exact matches
Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into
story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help
students remember it, especially if the
students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a
story or creating a drawing,
students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically
acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.
It can include playing with manipulatives, leaving space for
student discovery, tinkering with numbers and shapes, questioning that stimulates curiosity, using a makerspace during math centers,
acting out story problems, investigating an engaging task, using movement, and playing math games.
While Selman and Elizabeth point
out that the traditional view has been to steer
students away from the movie version of a book, for fear that they'll watch the movie instead of reading, the two researchers hypothesize that creating a deep and thought - provoking connection between a movie and a book could actually increase
students» interest in reading that book and that the very
act of comparing and contrasting the way a
story is told in two media could lead to a deeper understanding of the ideas in the
story and of the characters and the choices they make.
These Book Projects with Grading Rubrics include: - Introduction -
student reading record - new book jacket - pyramid diorama -
act it
out - letter to the author - dress - up character - salesperson - book critic - letter to friend - radio or television broadcast - comic strip - sing a song - character puppet - mobile - new words - Venn diagram - poster board - map with key places - make a web - create a new page -
story sequence - advertise -
story flip book - character map - book award - new ending -
story chart -
story map - postcard -
story flag - letter to the author questions - character feeling - real or make - believe - character Venn diagram - fact finder - cause and effect - fact and opinions - event timeline -
story quilt - book news - grading rubric These are GREAT for reading workshops.
Ideally,
students can
act out the parts in the
stories and then change roles so that they can see things from a different perspective.
Have
students work in small groups to
act out one part of the
story for the class.
Have
students create skits or puppet shows to
act out a
story the class is reading.
Many
students enjoy learning through dramatic activities like
acting out a
story that they've read, or creating monologues by historical characters, but
students may lack the skills of cooperation, collaboration, focus and self - control that drama requires.
Some teachers will
act out select characters in the
story or participate alongside the
students and try taking on the responsibilities of leading
students at moments directed by the teaching artist.
Implemented program that allowed
students to
act out characters from
story time activities, improving on children's speech clarity and confidence by 24 %
The
story can be read aloud to the
students or narrated for the
students to
act out.
At the beginning of this school year, the staff participated in Getting Started, and a group of teachers
acted out a
story taking on roles of
students and also Captain Kid.