Living Inside a Story

Ages 4-adult

Inquiry:

How can we think like the characters and really understand them? How do they connect to our lives? 

Workshop Description:

Experience a story in “first person” through collaborative problem-solving strategies, which deepen intrinsic learning. Prepare to have fun as we read, write and experience from inside a text. Questioning, perspective taking, inferring and making connections are Language Arts components we will be addressing. Different perspectives on bullying will be the focus of this workshop but other themes are equally applicable.  Strategies can be applied to any text. Handouts provided.

Your students will be able to:

1.   Engage learners in higher-level thinking, inferring and making connections to text

2.   Gain enriching strategies to increase reading comprehension and vocabulary building

3.   Experience powerful writing experiences after living an experience

4.   Increase questioning techniques

5.   Integrate multiple subjects under one theme

6.   Build cognitive capacity (problem solving, critical thinking, attention and working memory)