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Action Strategies For Deepening Comprehension: Role Plays, Text-Structure Tableaux, Talking Statues, and Other Enactment Techniques That Engage Students with Text Paperback – December 1, 2002

by Jeffrey Wilhelm (Author)
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Before reading, hand out lines of a poem and have students try to build an idea of what the poem will be about...invite two students to play good angel/bad angel for a book character...have students perform a vocabulary statue depicting the meaning of terms such as global warming or deforestation. This book has many motivating ideas like this that energize students before, during, and after reading. These strategies can be done individually, or through pair work or groups. Great for deepening reading strategies such as activating prior knowledge, inferring, visualizing, making connections, and more. For use with Grades 4 & Up.
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  1. Reading age
    9 - 17 years
  2. Print length
    192 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Dimensions
    7.5 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  5. Publisher
    Scholastic Professional Books
  6. Publication date
    December 1, 2002
  7. ISBN-10
    0439218578
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0439218573
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About the Author

Jeff Wilhelm is the author of Improving Comprehension with Think Aloud Strategies (Scholastic) You Gotta BE the Book (Teachers College Press) and several other books. He has taught middle school and high school and currently teaches in the Professional Development Network at the University of Maine Writing Project. He regularly presents at national and international conferences. This is the second book in his Action Strategies for Readers series for Scholastic.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scholastic Professional Books; unknown edition (December 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0439218578
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0439218573
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 - 17 years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

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Gary Carkin
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a good book for teachers filled with strategies that will elevate ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2014
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This is a good book for teachers filled with strategies that will elevate and enthuse your students. Based on a drama in education approach, Wilhelm outlines the many conventions that can be used to make the classroom active, where learners learn by doing, and increase understanding of texts, themselves, and others through dynamic interactions based on the texts studied. Anyone involved in teaching reading, writing, or English as a second language will find much of value within its pages.
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J.M. Barrie
5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, Practical Resource for Teachers
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2014
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While this is not Jeff Wilhelm's newest book by any means, it is filled with helpful ideas if you want to target the kinesthetic learners in your classroom who are often overlooked in school. There is a plethora of helpful ideas in this book that I was able to apply immediately in my classroom with successful results.
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Tanya Mravik
4.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed reading the excerpt that our professor provided for us ...
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Not a required text for our Creative Expressions class; however, I enjoyed reading the excerpt that our professor provided for us that I bought this book for professional development. Again, hoping to implement some of the ideas in this book in my classroom.
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Paul
5.0 out of 5 stars Action Strategies
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2012
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Bought this book for my masters program and it was one of the few books I decided to keep. It is a good read and I found it was something I could actually use everyday in my classroom.
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Elizabeth Hoagland
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Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2015
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Great read for all teachers
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Rachael Welch
5.0 out of 5 stars Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2007
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I have not found a better book to help students really get into literure and LOVE IT!!!

It is exciting, informative, and has great ideas for teaching literature!
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Michele A. Polselli
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Condition
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2006
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This book arrived in excellent condition. It arrived much better than I thought it would. Thank you so much.
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Mary G. Dovey
5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific resource for all teachers!
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2007
Wilhelm's book, Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension is one of the most valuable teaching resources I own. I've had phenomenal success with the hotseating and tableaux activities, only two of the terrific resources in this great book. Kids of all ages love hotseating in particular because it's so much fun. In a nutshell: one kid gets in front of the room (I drape a piece of red fabric across the stool) and "becomes" the character. He/She may have a "helper" of their choosing by their side. The rest of the class are "reporters" who ask the character any question they choose. The student in the hotseat may confer with his "helper" in order to answer as the character would...and therein lies the beauty of this. As the questions and answers unfold, everybody is thinking and when an answer doesn't ring true, the majority

will know it and question it.

We've done this with multiple characters as well as the "author." The questions are nearly always completely authentic; as kids, most would feel stupid speculating about motive, etc., and asking questions, but as

"reporters" it feels completely natural. I love to see the light bulbs go in everybody's head when new ideas--synthesis!--occurs.

One of my best hot-seating moments was after reading "The Gift of the Magi," a difficult work for my 8th graders. We'd hotseated the two main characters as well as O. Henry, and it was the question to O. Henry that did it. A girl who had a real problem with making inferences asked him why he'd written the lines about Della being afraid that her new short hair made her look like a Coney Island chorus girl. My student, Tony, clearly had paid no attention whatsoever to that description--in fact I was surprised that anyone had-- and he really had to think. Finally, he answered, saying, "I wanted Della to be a little bit afraid that maybe she didn't look like a (and he stressed thsi)nice girl."

The book also offers a number of other "action" activities that you can use. For my money, these are terrific

for any age! I encourage you to check this out. I also had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Wilhelm present his research and findings on his new book, Going with the Flow, and I was wowed to hear him in person as well.
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