A teacher's guidebook of ideas for introducing Readers Theatre to young students. Includes step-by-step instruction on a variety of ways to use Readers Theatre in the classroom: Circle, Instant and Cooperative Readings. Provides a springboard of ideas for storytelling, writing and creative drama. Allows teachers to build theme units for cooperative learning, special education and English as a second language. Nine drama activities and two complete sample scripts are included for duplication and use in the classroom. A practical, step-by-step teacher's guide to using Readers Theatre for language development. Makes reading fun!

Intended for students and children taking part in speech and drama competitions and exams, this book contains a range of audition speeches. It includes female, male and unisex speeches selected from both plays and children's books. Where relevant the author has indicated how a speech could be shortened for younger children. There is also an introductory section with contributions from Alan Ayckbourn, Carol Schroder (teacher and examiner for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), Richard Carpenter (TV writer) and Ed Wilson (Director of the National Youth Theatre) and senior casting directors for the RSC, TV and film. This edition has been freshly revised to include 10 new speeches from well known recent productions as well as children's books including Harry Potter. 'A superb compilation' Amateur Stage

The first successful radio transmission forever changed the way humans communicate, share news, and enjoy entertainment. This comprehensive book combines both the history and technology behind radio through the ages, documenting the earliest experiments with radio waves to the arrival of podcasting. Other topics include - how people ommunicated information before radio - Reginald Fessenden's first voice transmission - early radio stations and the advent of commercials - ham radio operators - the Golden Age of radio broadcasting - radios in daily life, including shortwave, Citizens Band, satellite, and digital radio Teacher's guide available.

Focusing on the transformative power of the creative arts process, Christopher Worthman offers readers a new way of thinking about literacy development and, specifically, the teaching of writing. In this groundbreaking ethnography, he describes and analyzes the writing development of a group of teenagers involved in a unique community-based teen theater project. Rich with theoretical and practical insights, "Just Playing the Part":

-- Explores the critical relationship of language and writing to movement, voice development, and dramatic interaction.

-- Demonstrates how literacy use in a multimedia creative arts program influences the teenage participants' understanding of themselves and others.

-- Offers a successful program for all students, especially "at-risk" teens, based on the power of the creative arts to stimulate academic and personal development.

-- Contributes new research on out-of-school literacies.

-- Includes a script developed by the group and detailed descriptions of improvisational activities that can be adapted for use by other classes or ensembles.

This title focuses on Havana singer and songwriter Camila Cabello. The book explores information related to her early life, her time in the spotlight, and the legacy she will leave behind. This hi-lo title is complete with dazzling photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Fly! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.

One of a series of resources to help teens discover fascinating and entertaining facts about writers, artists, personalities and cartoonists that most interest them.

Moving, inspiring, solemn, and true. This is the story of Philippe Petit, a French trapeze artist who, during the construction of the World Trade Center in 1974, walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers. Yes, the act was illegal and he was arrested; but for a short period--in a time of innocence before 9/11--one man performed exhilarating feats on a wire high above the city as dawn broke, to the delight of passersbys in Lower Manhattan. Mordicai Gerstein's masterful narrative, dramatic paintings and heartfelt reading combine in this remarkable memorial to the towers and to the lives of all the people connected to them.