> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > I have had great success with having students > (grades 1, 2 & 3) work > collaboratively to write their own readers' theater > scripts. I've done this with 6th-8th graders. We ususally start by scripting a poem. Then we move up to a picture book (Robert Munsch or Patricia Pollaco books are great for this because they have lots of dialog) and finally to a speech, a short story or passage from a novel. I model first, and let them practice performing with my scripts. We talk about whether to make the script follow the voices of characters (and whether the setting can be its own character and read the descriptions), whether or not they need a narrator or whether they can script it using some other feature of the text that will have an impact on the listener. Then I turn them loose in small groups. I haven't been disappointed yet. They do some great work, and it really requires both comprehension and fluency to do it well. Diana in FL _________________________________________________________________ Download Messenger. Start an i’m conversation. Support a cause. Join now. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGWL_MAY07 _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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