ON YOUR FEET! Action Strategies to Engage Students. By: Sherry Bielenberg and Laurie Lamb Remsen Union Schools

1. ON YOUR FEET!Action Strategies to Engage Students.By: Sherry Bielenbergand Laurie LambRemsen Union Schools

2. Starting the Fire: Motivating Readers • Getting students ready to make life connections to the material • Start the fire by bringing story concepts to life • Students need to be able to put themselves into the story as a character or observer

3. ENACTMENT …creating situations in which we “imagine to learn” *Not theatre, do not require props, do not require stages, do not require rehearsals, do not require acting skills.

4. The Benefits of Enactment Strategies

5. Enactments Make Reading a Transformative Experience

6. Enactments Can Be Used Flexibly

7. Enactments Assist Students Before, During, and After Reading

8. Enactments Harness the Power of the Social Nature of Learning

9. Enactments Invite Students to Think and Imagine

10. Enactments Are Motivating

11. Enactments Help Students Achieve a State of “Flow”

12. Let’s do one! Introduction of rivalry as a theme…

13. How’d we do? Praise, Question, Polish What? So What? Now what? Personal Contributions

14. Chapter 1 Show Me, Help Me, Let Me: Assisting Readers to Higher Levels of Comprehension

15. Chapter 1 • Set ground rules. • Find roles for everyone(observer, witness, reporter, recorder) • Play is the most natural for of learning. In play the student is always a head taller than himself (Vygotsky, 1978). • Facilitate learning by engaging in a role. (Include Yourself)

16. Chapter 2 Making the Connection: Enactments to Use Before Reading

17. Chapter 2 • Framing the Enactment • Where are you going? • What do you want students to learn? • Where do you want student to end up? • How are you going to get them there?

18. Trigger Letters Response to pictures Precious objects Presents Story about an object Maps Value cards Fate Cards Manifesto/Creed Character Quotations Tea Party Wishing/bestowing/ bequeathing Oath taking Gauntlets Rumors/gossip predictions Simulations FrontloadingBuilding Prior Knowledge

19. Chapter 3 Getting in Role: Reading and Learning from Various Points of View

20. Role Player “Gut Check” • What is my role? • With whom am I role playing? • What problem or tension are we involved in? • What do I know from the text/s we’ve read that will inform how I will respond during the role play? • What do we need to achieve and be able to report out on? • Will I start the role play? If so, how will I get it started? • How will I prompt or help my partner if he or she has trouble getting started?

21. Telegram/Cell phone message Illustrator/Photographer Questioning Reporters/Police Detective/ Accountant Problem Solving: Dear Abby/Commentator Predicting: Fortune-Teller/ Prophet Analyzing: Expert Analyst Digging Deeper: Drama Diva Stranger in a role Character Walks Freeze and Go Role Play Ideas

22. Chapter 4 Sitting in the Hotseat: Deepening Understanding of Characters and Concepts

23. Benefits of Hotseating • Helps students get to know characters deeply or understand differing perspectives on issues. • Aids inferential and analytical thinking • Allows exploration of real issues and allows safety of being a role • Offers opportunities to work on public speaking, interviewing, questioning, and other discussion skills

24. Helpful Hotseat • Use a planning guide for student to generate question (QAR) • Model • Use whole group as lifeline or brain (student in the hotseat may consult the brain) • Reflect Don’t Correct

25. Character Author Real life figure A group representative An idea(democracy) A force(electrical charge) Math concept( density) Inner Self Voice from the past (Ghosts, whisper, prequels) Good Angel/Bad Angel (Groups of Angels) Tunnel of Advice Response Montage Inside/Outside Mantle of the Stranger Hot Seat Ideas

26. Chapter 5 Mantle of the Expert: Learning to Read Deeply Enough to Gain Expertise *To wear the mantle (the cloak) of another, to step into another’s shoes.

27. Mantle of the Expert Notes • Ideal for Non-Fiction • Gaining, applying, using, and sharing knowledge • Infuses facts with feelings • Use specific kinds of knowledge and jargon the in role/topic specific

28. Filmmaker/producer Historian Economists Meteorologists Police officer Guidance Counselor Psychologist Biologist/Naturalist Parent Teen Family member Tribal leader MTV Video Producer Museum Designer Picture Analysis Health official Researcher Theme Park Designer Travel Agent Doctor/nurse Lawyer Archaeologist Reporter Project manager Engineer Children Website/PPT designer Judge Mantle of the Expert Ideas

29. Chapter 6 Tableaux: Visualizing Meaning Through Image and Gesture

30. Tableaux Definition • Makes use of body/bodies in a frozen scene that captures physical, psychological, or emotional relationships. • Can be done through drawings, collages, and fine art media • Use for vocabulary, mental models, or theme or ideas

31. A statue Flag at half mast Thumbs up Clutched fist Peace sign Story boards Missing Scene Multiple ending Comic strip Slide show Picture book Sequel After the show Talking Portrait Tapping in Machine Tableaux Ideas/Examples

32. Chapter 7 Reenactments and Interventions: Playing to Deepen Understanding of How Texts Work

33. Telling tales Guided imagery Mime Scene writing Our Town Analogy Mental Modeling Pre-enactments Video Newscast Headlining/Lead Writing Magic Schoolbus Forums A Day in the Life Dance/Movement Reenactment Ideas

34. Recasting/Reframing What if? Interrupted Action slow motion fast forward Alternate endings Intensifier Temptations/Tension Two-sided story Game Show The Rest of the Story Tunnel of Time Third Rock from the Sun Past/Present/Future MTV Videos Debates/Trials Intervention Ideas

35. Chapter 8 Writing in Role: Radio Shows, Voice Collage, Memory Circles, and Other Correspondence Activities

36. Phone call/phone tree Brochures Political platform Protest Manifestos Songs/anthems/Videos Horoscopes Movie Casting Play by play Magazine Profile/Personals Secret messages Myth/legend Formal letter Business letter Informal letter Thank-you letter Letter of Complaint Postcard Advertisement PSA Memorandum Business Contract Invitation Role Writing Ideas

37. Chapter 9 Discussion Dramas: Rehearsing and Developing Our Thinking

38. Notes • Real Talk • Defending your position • Using what you learned • Listening to others • Trying things out • Considering • Trial and Error • It’s NOT “Guess what the teacher already knows”

39. Pose a Provocative Question Invite Brainstorming Students choose role Frame the enactment Play radio host Challenge callers Choral Montage (Intro w/note exchange) Voice Collage Stimulating statements Fold overs/match ups Continuum Plus TV coverage Talk show Quiz show Trading rumors Memory circle Walkarounds Forum Guided Imagery Four Corners Discussion Drama Ideas

40. The Benefits of Enactment Strategies

41. Enactments Make Reading a Transformative Experience

42. Enactments Can Be Used Flexibly

43. Enactments Assist Students Before, During, and After Reading

44. Enactments Harness the Power of the Social Nature of Learning

45. Enactments Invite Students to Think and Imagine

46. Enactments Are Motivating

47. Enactments Help Students Achieve a State of “Flow”

48. Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension Dr. Jeffrey Wilhelm Scholastic ISBN:0-439-21857-8