Deepening Comprehension with Action Strategies: Role Plays, Text-Structure Tableaux, Talking Statues, and Other Enactment Techniques That Engage Stude

by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

Book Overview

- Before reading, hand out lines of a poem and invite students to build an idea of what the poem will be about...
- invite two students to play good angel/bad angel for a book character
- have students perform a vocabulary statue depicting the meaning of terms such as global warming or deforestation.

You'll find that these motivating ideas and many others energize students before, during, and after reading and can be done individually,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545218594
• ISBN13: 9780545218597
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 4 to Postsecondary