Have students write book reports in many different ways. Web English Teacher has the best listing of links containing a wonderful range of ideas to represent understanding of literature.
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A children’s author, Aaron Shepherd, has made available a large number of plays suitable for classroom use

What is remarkable is the large number of free stories and scripts. The scripts are suitable for Reader’s Theatre. Here is the direct link to great resources he offers for students and teachers:

*Reader's Theater, Readers Theatre* AARON SHEPARD'S RT PAGE *Readers Theater, Reader's Theatre, Free Scripts, Short Children's Plays*


Aaron reads his story: King O’ the Cats in a free author-podcast reading!


http://www.aaronshep.com/videos/KingCats.mp4


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Students of all ages can produce some pretty amazing content and share it through audio projects, or known as podcasting, A podcast is an online radio show. You may want to start small and simply use a tape recorder or a recording mp3 player. This teacher-author has produced a resource for creating an effective audio script. Listen to some of these projects:

Sample podcast click on this link: The Stranger


The full class set of podcasts:

Grade Four Podcast 2010: Chris van allsberg


For the resource used to write podcast scripts:


Book Response Audio or Podcast Project

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We all love the three little pigs, and hope it is not the version where the big bad wolf eats the 2 first pigs. This is the classic Looney Toons version.




Here is a great resource:

Three Pigs Enrichment Pack

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Puppets have been found in most cultures. Whether marionettes from Europe, large pole puppets from Asia, or children’s hand or finger puppets made commercially as toys - puppets far and wide capture the imagination.

There are some really fantastic resources for teaching about puppets:

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