Students need to be given the opportunity to apply what they have learned. Developing a culminating activity that allows the students to show the new skills they have learned, and practice them in front of parents and friends gives them positive reinforcement, as well as the confidence to listen, read, speak, write and become successful learners.
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To develop oral language and social skills
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Select a dialogue from familiar stories. Display the dialogue on sentence strips in a pocket chart. Have the students read the strips for a shared reading activity. To practice oral language development and fluency, prepare a script for each student to read from. Pair the students and have them practice the dialogue. Next, have the students prepare puppets for the characters, illustrating the feelings of each character. Have them role-play the conversation using the puppets.
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To gain fluency and develop oral language
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Allow the students to select a story they would like to reenact. Create a Reader’s Theater, where a play is designed from the text and each child receives a part in the play. The children will practice reading their lines until they feel confident, or fluent. Once the students have become familiar with their parts, they will role-play each scene. They will incorporate proper facial expressions to portray how their character is feeling. Then, the students will dress as their character and act out their parts in the play.
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To gain fluency and express feelings students will retell a story they create.
Students will work in cooperative groups to prepare story props. First, they will recreate the setting of the selected story. They will exhibit their recreation in accordance to the story. Next, they will set up pictures of the characters, and sequential events on a roll of paper resembling a comic strip. Finally, they will prepare a mock television broadcast to retell the story using the correct story elements.
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(4) To promote self-confidence
To provide our children with encouragement and self-esteem we also like to invite
parents, school staff and students to attend the presentation of our storytellers.
A narrator will describe the story setting and its characters. The storytellers will tell their stories incorporating prior knowledge of story elements, emotions, and problem-solving strategies.
