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Reader's Theater

4/25/2018

4 Comments

 
Dear Readers,
     We are doing an activity called Reader's Theater.  The way we do it is we have a script in a book, and kids have parts called roles.  They take turns reading their parts.  Sometimes our teacher has to be a part because we don't have enough kids to be all the parts, or someone is absent.  Here are all of the plays:  Farflings from Farflung, Welcome to Water World, Jack and the Beanstalk Trial, and Wizard of Wherever.  You can do it at home if you have a book with people or animals that talk.  You just find what you want to be and read your part.  We performed them for our class on April 20, 2018.  We had fun doing Reader's Theater!

Sincerely,
​Ella and Sami

Questions:

1.  Which plays have you acted in, and which character were you in the play?

2.  If you have ever been in the audience of a play, which plays have you seen?



4 Comments
Brian (Ella’s Dad)
5/1/2018 06:10:49 am

Dear Mrs. Holliday’s class,

I love this idea for reading with your friends and activity bag out characters in the book.

I have not acted in many plays but I did have one line in a play when I was a kid. In middle school - long ago - my class put on a musical play where we acted and also sang and danced. I had one line and still remember it. It was during a part about ice cream, one of my favorite foods. My line was “scoop me some baseball not!” When I said it, I had to make a scooping motion with my arm. Baseball nut was a kind of ice cream at a store called Baskin Robbins. I’m not sure if that store is still around anymore!

While I did not go on to act much in plays, I fell in love with musicals and in High School I got to perform playing my clarinet and saxophone as part of the orchestra for several plays. I performed in The Wiz and West Side Story. West Side Story was very fun and the music was fast and exciting to play!

Thanks for sharing about your readers theater, I’m excited to try this with Ella at home!

-Brian

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Kate
5/1/2018 04:38:09 pm

I love plays! I especially like musical plays; but really any type is fun. I have often said to Sami that she should be an actress, because she can be VERY expressive!

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Katie (Ella's mom)
5/2/2018 06:37:50 am

Hi,
I haven't ever been in a play.That is something I wish I had done in school because it looks like it is a lot of fun.

I took a class in college where we had to go see different kinds of art and then write about them. I saw a play, a dance concert and a music concert. The play I saw was called "A Streetcar Named Desire." I liked that class because I tried new things that I wouldn't normally have done!

--Katie

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James
5/3/2018 07:52:30 am

Dear Ella and Sami,

I have been to a play with Paxton.
It was called Polka Dot.
Close or at the end of the play I got to go up stage,
and they gave me a hat with triangles on it. They asked me a bunch of questions like what is your favorite food? What is your favorite video game? They asked me these questions because the play was about school and I was a new student. The play was about how you should treat people how you want to be treated and that every one is different. So don't treat people different if they are different.
From,
James

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