Read And Write Sports: Readers Theatre And Writing Activities For Grades 3-8 [Paperback]

This book allows students to bring the energy of their everyday lives into the classroom via sports-based readers theatre and writing activities.

Team sports like football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer. Individual athletic pursuits, such as skating, gymnastics, track, BMX, and skateboarding. These are the activities that hold a powerful and universal appeal for kids.

Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 38makes students forget they're learning by delivering the action and emotion of their favorite pursuits as they participate in readers theatre activities and writing exercises such as composing an action-reaction poem for each sport. These activities allow students to draw from their personal experience and bring their extracurricular activities into the classroom by writing a narrative scene for different sports throughout the school year. Each chapter provides filled-out examples to model the pre-writing process, making it easy for students to see how others think before they write.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Reading and Writing?&?and Teaching
Peer Editing
Prewriting, the Forgotten Step
The Five Steps of Writing
Why Sports?
How to Use This Book
Readers Theatre
Write an Expository Paragraph
Warm-Up
Regulations
Note Taking Mini-lesson
The Game
Write a Narrative Scene
Warm-Up
Regulations
The Game
No Erasing Rule
Write an Action-Reaction Poem
Warm-Up
Regulations
The Game
Puzzles
1 Football
First and Ten Football Readers Theatre Overview
First and Ten Football Readers Theatre Script
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