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How can we make stories come alive for kids in our community?

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RL.2.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

W.2.3 Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

SL.2.5 Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

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3b Students evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.

6c Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

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- Storyboard for story script
-Reader's Theater style-script for video
-Video of dramatic reading

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Use these tools to help edit your video performance!

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Use this resource to brainstorm ideas for reader's theater and explore how we can make our products go public!

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K-2 Creativity & Innovation Rubric

This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades K-2 in using creativity and innovation in a project, and can be used to assess their performance. This rubric is aligned with CCSS, but also can be used in non-CCSS settings.

Use this rubric to guide students and assess their work, or to inform your thinking as you create your own assessment tools. Schools and districts can adopt or adapt this rubric for use across all classrooms.

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K-2 Creativity & Innovation Rubric This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades K-2 in using creativity and innovation in a project, and can be used to assess their performance. This rubric is aligned with CCSS, but also can be used in non-CCSS settings.

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Use this resource to turn in assignments if missing from class or have the opportunity for families to tell stories!

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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-Storyboard for story script (including illustration narratives/annotations)

-Script ( or part of a script) for video

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This rubric helps with guiding and assessing younger students, and is based on our Collaboration Rubric for older students, which aligns with CC standards for Speaking and Listening.

Use this rubric to guide students and assess their work, or to inform your thinking as you create your own assessment tools. Schools and districts can adopt or adapt this rubric for use across all classrooms.

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This rubric helps with guiding and assessing younger students, and is based on our Collaboration Rubric for older students, which aligns with CC standards for Speaking and Listening. Use this rubric to guide students and assess their work, or to inform your thinking as you create your own assessment tools.

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Use this resource to curate ideas and find resources for folktales and fables, Reader's Theater, and script-writing!

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Here's access to a Padlet that is student-created to help you figure out all that YOU need to know!

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Use this resource to find many stories with multiple reading levels to choose from!

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-Reader's Theater-style script for video

-Video of dramatic reading

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Language Arts

Reader's theater lesson plans (with scripts):

Reader's theater scripts:

Math

Teachers can use reader's theater as an instructional technique for mathematical word problems. This example could be used for a reader's theater about 100's day and the concept of 100 .

Social Studies

Here are reader's theater scripts about America in varying reading levels.

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Reader's theater is a strategy for developing reading fluency. It involves children in oral reading through reading parts in scripts. In using this strategy, students do not need to memorize their part; they need only to reread it several times, thus developing their fluency skills. The best reader's theater scripts include lots of dialogue.

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-Storytime Channel video premiere party and screening at the school or local library, sharing stories with younger children from the school or community Storytime Channel videos posted online

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Use this link to learn more about the benefits of Reader's Theater and some examples of students like you doing it!

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Language Arts

Reader's theater lesson plans (with scripts):

Reader's theater scripts:

Math

Teachers can use reader's theater as an instructional technique for mathematical word problems. This example could be used for a reader's theater about 100's day and the concept of 100 .

Social Studies

Here are reader's theater scripts about America in varying reading levels.

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Reader's theater is a strategy for developing reading fluency. It involves children in oral reading through reading parts in scripts. In using this strategy, students do not need to memorize their part; they need only to reread it several times, thus developing their fluency skills. The best reader's theater scripts include lots of dialogue.

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Watch this video on a tutorial of building a storyboard for one of your major products.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Use this link to find a plethora of diverse folktales and fables.

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Below I have gathered a round up of fantastic picture books to use to expose your child to some wonderful legends, myths, and other folktales from around the world!

It's always exciting to read a folktale around the world when you are studying a particular country.

My suggestion is to first head to your local library to find these folktales around the world before you purchase any of these gems. Also, you can find a few folktales online.

I absolutely love when my students complete a notebook page with this free folktale graphic organizer. It makes them really think deep about the folktale or fable and how it relates to them.

I also have these free reading genre posters hanging up in my classroom. They are perfect for homeschoolers, too.

Asia

Africa

Australia/Oceania

Europe

North America

South America

The Artic/Antarctic
What's your favorite folktale from around the world?

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70 Fables and Folktales from Around the World

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Below I have gathered a round up of fantastic picture books to use to expose your child to some wonderful legends, myths, and other folktales from around the world! It's always exciting to read a folktale around the world when you are studying a particular country.

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Immerse yourself into the theater experience as WMU Acting students perform a Reader's Theater program in your very own classroom. Curtains, theater seating, and dramatic lighting will make you feel like you have a front row seat to the best show in town!

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Take students to watch a Readers Theatre Performance. Virtual presentations also available.

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The Chamber Readers -- The Legend of Lightning Larry, by Aaron Shepard (Reader's Theater)