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christmas-carols-in-french

Lyrics for 12 Christmas carols in French are presented. Cantiques et chants de Noel French

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Buchin-knee2

Howard Buchin writes about his experience with his second knee replacement surgery. This is the write place for authors of prose and poetry to post their work for others to read.

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Buchin 5

Howard Buchin's characters Ridley-Roo and Zelda-Lu continue their wild cat adventures in chapter 6. This is the write place for authors of prose and poetry to post their work for others to read.

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Play Scripts and Songs for Teaching

Scruffy Plume provides ideas, play scripts and songs for teaching. Download drama lesson plans, French activities, puppet scripts, patterns for easy to make puppets. and Christian plays.

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Nissen

This the author's page for poet Irene Nissen. This is the write place for authors of prose and poetry to post their work for others to read.

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Write Place

This is the write place for authors of prose and poetry to post their work for others to read.

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Article Archives

Read archived articles about using play scripts, drama play and music activities in the classroom.

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Can Peter Pan Fly? Writing Play Scripts for School

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When having students try their hand at writing their own play scripts, we often focus our attention on the skill of writing dialogue and perhaps include a discussion of the emotions involved for the characters. Unfortunately, we often neglect an examination of the more physical part of drama - the action of the story which would be given to the director and actors through stage cues.
Help young script writers to visualize the action.

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Tell it All!  …… Through Play Scripts

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And then, and then, and then ……… How often have you heard younger children retell an event or story as a series of facts punctuated by the dreaded “and then”? Having our students present an oral retell in the narrative form helps them to develop an essential skill and it is worth the time and effort to teach them to abandon the “and then” format since it is little more than a bare bones sequencing activity.
What more do we want to retell?

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Drama Lesson Plans for Math?

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With so much to cram into our daily classroom timetables, it is often difficult to set aside a specific time to formally teach drama skills, find a play script, assign roles, rehearse and perform. With a little creativity, however, it is possible to integrate drama play into the other areas of the curriculum. You can reinforce learning in many subjects through focused drama lesson plans.
Start with Drama skills ........

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