No Series: Reading, Writing, and Role Play

Reading, Writing, and Role Play

Lesson Objective: Students use dramatization to understand text and prepare for writing

Grades K-2 / ELA / Literacy

14 MIN

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See how role play and "freeze-framing" prepare students for ambitious writing What activities/strategies are used to promote speaking and listening?
Try the "poster activity" that gets students to analyze what they've read?

26 Comments

LaBresha Small Jan 15, 2024 5:14pm

The activities/strategies used to promote speaking and listening are the times where they act out scenes and say what they think is happening by expressing what assigned characters say. The listening aspect comes through group discussions. I love how the teachers make it easy for each student to express themselves.
Try the "poster activity" that gets students to analyze what they've read? The "poster activity" is a great tool to use for small groups where everyone can work collaboratively and really work on higher order thinking skills. Awesome!

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Joann Miller Nov 11, 2023 11:33am

Enacting story helps for comphrehension. Using props and pictures kept kids interested if what was going on in the story. Best to have expectations of students so they can excel.

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SHONDRICA LEE Sep 25, 2023 1:31pm

I think the role play is very important for comprehension.

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Tiffany Baltazar Sep 24, 2022 4:30pm

1. Activities/strategies are used to promote speaking and listening was that the students response to questions in a complete sentences and they also did a story map by looking a picture from the story to predict that page.

2. The poster activity helped the students to predict the story and to collaborate within their group.

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LaSasha Alexander Jul 27, 2022 5:59am

Love that they role played the mentor text.

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Summary

Here we follow Broadmead Infants School's approach to literacy over a week long period, and gain an insight into the

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Summary

Here we follow Broadmead Infants School's approach to literacy over a week long period, and gain an insight into the strategies they use to encourage enthusiasm about the subject in their pupils.
The school based in Croydon has a very mixed intake of pupils, many of the whom have little experience of books.
Teachers emphasise the importance of guided speaking and listening from Reception onwards, in an effort to get children organising and vocalising their thoughts. Role play, freeze-framing and the dramatising of stories and characters from books all help prepare children for ambitious writing.
Later, Headteacher Alex Lundie reflects on the pupils' achievements. She believes that children with lower levels of experience deserve to have high expectations made of them, so long as the right support is in place.

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