Did you ever wonder how to teach children kindness? We can use a whole lot of words, but they really need to experience it for themselves, don't they?
- *Reader's theater helps build reading fluency.
- *Reader's theater helps children develop social skills.
- *Reader's theater develops reading comprehension skills.
- *Reader's theater helps children develop empathy.
- *Reader's theater helps children understand new and different situations.
- *Reader's theater helps children experience things they might not experience otherwise.
Here's a resource that celebrates kindness through reader's theater! It has a fun little twist to the story: the children read about a conflict, then ask the audience to help them come up with a solution to end the play!
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Starring Kindness Sample: Reader's Theater with a Twist: has a 4-page script that describes a conflict about a blue crayon between some children. There are 4 characters involved. After 4 pages of dialog, the children are to discuss how to solve the problem and create an ending that uses kindness!
Trust me, the children love this!
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We can all use a little kindness in our lives, can't we?
In case you're looking for more reader's theater, here's a life cycle-themed script: What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
How do you help your students learn kindness?
I always loved doing Readers Theater with my first graders! Combining it with promoting kindness is a wonderful idea!
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This would be wonderful for summer school! Thank you!
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