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Subjects
Grade
Brief Description
Transform Asian folktales into Reader's Theater scripts.
Objectives
Students will
Keywords
script, Reader's Theater, Aaron Shepard, folktale, Asian-American, Asia
Lesson Plan
Aaron Shepard, creator of the Folktales on Stage, presents many Asian folktales on his Web site. Each link below will take you to an Asian folktale that students can rewrite in Reader's Theater script form, and perform for their classmates. (If you work with younger students, you will need to do the scriptwriting.) Each tale link below also includes a list of characters and the appropriate grade levels.
Additional Activities:
-- Before students perform their folktale, have them show on a world map the country of the tale's origin.
-- Have students introduce in advance of their performance any new or unusual vocabulary words that might be encountered.
-- Folktales always seem to have a lesson at their heart. As each tale is performed, talk about the lessons learned from it.
-- These tales by Aaron Shepard also can be used as read-aloud tales. See another lesson, Build Listening Skills With Asian Folktales; this lesson includes 10 listening comprehension questions for five different Asian folktales.
Kings for Breakfast: A Hindu Legend
Grades K-8
Characters:
The Gifts of Wali Dad: A Tale of India and Pakistan
Grades PreK-8
Characters:
Too-too-moo and the Giant: A Tale of Indonesia
Grades K-4
Characters:
The Millionaire Miser: A Buddhist Legend
Grades K-8
Characters:
The Four Puppets: A Tale of Burma
Grades 2-8
Characters:
Four More Asian Folktales for Acting Out
Assessment
You might use the following Reader's Theater rubrics as resources for composing a rubric of your own:Lesson Plan Source
Education World
Submitted By
Gary Hopkins
National Standards
FINE ARTS: Theatre
GRADES K - 4
NA-T.K-4.1 Script Writing by Planning and Recording Improvisations Based on Personal Experience and Heritage, Imagination, Literature, and History
NA-T.K-4.2 Acting By Assuming Roles and Interacting In Improvisations
NA-T.K-4.3 Designing by Visualizing and Arranging Environments for Classroom Dramatizations
NA-T.K-4.4 Directing By Planning Classroom Dramatizations
GRADES 5 - 8
NA-T.5-8.1 Script Writing by Planning and Recording Improvisations Based on Personal Experience and Heritage, Imagination, Literature, and History
NA-T.5-8.2 Acting By Assuming Roles and Interacting In Improvisations
NA-T.5-8.3 Designing by Visualizing and Arranging Environments for Classroom Dramatizations
NA-T.5-8.4 Directing By Planning Classroom Dramatizations
NA-T.5-8.5 Researching By Finding Information to Support Classroom Dramatizations
GRADES 9 - 12
NA-T.9-12.1 Script Writing by Planning and Recording Improvisations Based on Personal Experience and Heritage, Imagination, Literature, and History
NA-T.9-12.2 Acting By Assuming Roles and Interacting In Improvisations
NA-T.9-12.3 Designing by Visualizing and Arranging Environments for Classroom Dramatizations
NA-T.9-12.4 Directing By Planning Classroom Dramatizations
NA-T.9-12.5 Researching By Finding Information to Support Classroom Dramatizations
LANGUAGE ARTS: English
GRADES K - 12
NL-ENG.K-12.2 Reading for Understanding
NL-ENG.K-12.4 Communication Skills
NL-ENG.K-12.5 Communication Strategies
NL-ENG.K-12.6 Applying Knowledge
NL-ENG.K-12.8 Developing Research Skills
NL-ENG.K-12.9 Multicultural Understanding
NL-ENG.K-12.12 Applying Language Skills
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Geography
GRADES K - 12
NSS-G.K-12.1 The World in Spatial Terms
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