Introducing Transformation and Predicting: The Gingerbread Man Lesson Using the beloved story of The Gingerbread Man students not only learn to transform into characters and imitate the actions of those characters, they also have many opportunities to predict and revise as they enact the story with you and their classmates. Introducing Transformation and Predicting: The … Read more
Brave Irene Lesson This exciting tale of bravery, a snowstorm and a lost dress provides a thrilling way for students to practice their storytelling skills. Based on the book “Brave Irene” by William Steig, this lesson is a great way for students grades 2-5 to practice collaboration, cooperation and using body objects to represent details … Read more
Adverbs in Motion Lesson Learning parts of speech does not need to be boring. In this Level I lesson, students explore action verbs, adverbs, and even direct objects as they also learn the relationship between audience and actor and how and why actors must improve their acting skills to communicate ideas.
Open Scenes Lesson Challenge students to read between the lines and play distinctive characters in these open-ended scenes. With dialogue that purposefully leaves details up to the imagination, this lesson can be used with students to work on collaboration, imitation, transformation, and planning and practicing skills. You may also integrate Language Arts by challenging students … Read more
Do Not Open (Part 2) Lesson: Transformation and Prediction Objective: students discuss how transformation reveals the message of a story while applying C.I.T.I to play out the story elements. Miss Moody has a cat that is afraid of storms–but why isn’t she? What is she afraid of when she finds a mysterious bottle on the … Read more
Do Not Open (Part 1) Lesson: Putting Action Verbs in Acting Objective: students demonstrate character actions, C.I.T.I.(concentration, imagination, transformation, imitation), and identify story elements. Miss Moody has a cat that is afraid of storms–but why isn’t she? What is she afraid of when she finds a mysterious bottle on the beach after a terrible storm … Read more
Yo! Yes? Lesson: Communicating Ideas Objective: students identify and communicate author’s message. Looking at the book Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka, students gather context clues about the story of two strangers who meet from different backgrounds. Students draw inferences from the illustrations and the text to determine what the author is trying to say at any … Read more
Word Pictures activity This drama activity has participants working in 4 groups and requires a list of vocabulary words to create a tableaux. This works with the skills of Movement, Body, Imagination, Aesthetics, Collaboration, Observation, and Communication.
Peanut Butter and Jelly for Early Childhood (PDF) This activity is good for Pre-Kindergardeners up to 1st Grade. It requires a list of words (nouns).