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| A little acting fun for our school wide fundraiser |
Today Melissa and I focused on how to use volume, pace, emotion and punctuation to make stories come to life. We started with teaching about volume. We used a witch as a prop (audience) for having students practice using different volumes for different situations while reading a Halloween sentence. We talked about a "bed time story" voice versus a voice you might use if you were on stage or speaking in front of your class. We moved the witch to different distances in the classroom and spoke to her in different volumes depending on where she was in the classroom. We also focused our time on paying attention to punctuation. We took the students to the gym and gave them actions to use for each of the following punctuation marks: period (stomp), comma (skip), exclamation (jump), question mark(shoulder shrug). We practiced using these actions with a variety of sentences. Then the students were given Halloween paragraphs that we read and used the punctuation actions as we walked around the gym.
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| Exclamation Mark!! |
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