Learning Activity 14: Drama Role Play

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Learning Activity 14:
Drama, Role-Play and Questioning
Exploring empathy and improvisations to develop characters and situations (ACADRM035)

Students will role play the different forms of bullying such as cyber, verbal, and physical bullying. The students will have to recognise and solve these problems in a moral and respectful way by creating a role-play of the situation in a way that it could be better resolved.

Learning Activity 15:
Word Attack, Decoding, Vocabulary, Visualisation, Reading and Predicting

During Englsih Reading Groups, if a student gets stuck on a word that cannot read from their levelled book, they will use the word attack checklist (Appendix L).

Learning Activity 16:
Fluency, Reading Rocket, Vocabulary and Counting
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This activity is usually done in pairs. On student Rocket reads a short fictional or informational text as fast as possible, whilst their partner times one minute. After reading, the non-reading partner counts how many words the reader read in one minute and the reader records it onto the data sheet. This encourages students to try and read faster and more fluently as they try to beat their reading scores from previous days or weeks.

(b) Students will practice repeatedly reading sight words (Appendix M) in a flowing motion once a week. To extend students, time how fast students can read the whole list, the fastest holding the record until beaten. The reciting of sight words can also been read choralling. Choral reading is when the whole class reads aloud as unison. Choral reading helps improve fluency, self-confidence and motivation to read.

(c) The final way to improve fluency is the ‘listening post’. Listening post is when students listen to an audio recording of someone narrating a story. Students wear headphones and follow along the story. Listening to the narrator reading teaches reading flow ,word accuracy and develops new

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