Deepening comprehension with action strategies : role plays, text-structure tableaux, talking statues, and other enactment techniques that engage students with text /
This book provides enactment techniques that help students apply their social, physical, and intellectual selves to the books they read to help improve their comprehension. The accompanying DVD features teachers and students using action strategies in classrooms.
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scholastic,
[2012]
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| Edition: | Revised and updated. |
| Series: | Teaching resources
Theory and practice (New York, N.Y.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Author's note: Action strategies and the Common Core State Standards
- Frequently-asked questions about enactments: what they are and why they work
- Show me, help me, let me; assisting readers to higher levels of comprehension
- Making the connection: enactments to use before reading
- Drama as inquiry: engagement, joy, inquiry, imagination, agency, identity, and wisdom
- Getting in role: reading and learning from various points of view
- Sitting in the hotseat: deepening understanding of characters and concepts
- Mantle of the expert: learning to read deeply enough to develop expertise
- Extending our reach: using technology with drama/action strategies
- Tableaux: visualizing meaning through image and gesture
- Reenactments and interventions: playing to deepen understanding of how texts work
- Writing in role: radio shows, voice collage, memory circles, and other correspondence activities
- Discussion dramas and formative assessment: rehearsing and developing our thinking.