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TARGETED ASSISTANCE
How it works: The program is used in After School, Saturday Academy or Summer School as a highly enjoyable way to improve reading skills and expose children to a wide range of stories and genres. Depending on the goals of the program, plays can be read as an end in themselves or performed as full productions or dramatic readings.
How it works: Students read the plays in
Targeted Assistance sessions. Repeated readings help students to consolidate their decoding, pronunciation, vocabulary and comprehension skills. When these students return to their classroom, they read their part in each play with
How it works: Schools perform a play before an audience in a full theatrical production. With the help of a consultant, students learn how to memorize their lines, project their voices and perform on stage. They also learn how to make costumes and props. Home-School Connection: A school play brings the community together. Parents love watching their children perform on stage.
much greater enjoyment, confidence and fluency.
Home-School Connection: Striving readers especially benefit from access to plays at home for extra practice and reading fun. Many striving readers are promising actors and love acting out the plays with siblings and parents at home. Little do they know they are becoming stronger and stronger readers in the process. Outcomes: Stronger impact of Targeted Assistance, consolidation of decoding skills; much greater confidence; a love of reading; interest in reading the stories in the plays in book form; a remarkable increase in enthusiasm for independent reading.
Home-School Connection: Students are free to bring scripts home with them for added practice.
Outcomes: Much stronger verbal skills, practice in following complex procedures; confidence in public speaking; deeper creativity and understanding of a creative process from beginning to end; pride in a job well done.
Outcomes: Stronger reading skills, broader vocabulary, better “story sense”, a love of books, a deeper imagination and greater likelihood of reading classics in their original form.
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