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The Summer Fun Summer Learning Drama and Plays Unit Unit PlanThe Summer Fun Summer Learning Drama and Plays Unit Unit Plan
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National Center for Families Learning
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Grade
1st - 8th
Subjects
Visual & Performing Arts
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Duration
1 mo 5 days
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The Summer Fun Summer Learning Drama and Plays Unit

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The play's the thing that puts the play in a summer learning drama program designed to combat summer slide and encourage family literacy. Participants learn about drama as an art form, engage in dramatic presentations, write scripts, and develop their spelling, math, and communication skills. What fun.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

dramatizations

Additional Tags

visual and performing arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Incorporate in existing community programs or encourage community service groups to adopt the programs in the series
  • Preview the entire series of five units to determine if appropriate to your learning situation

Classroom Considerations

  • The resource is appropriate for families as well; consider providing the link or putting together a packet of suggestions for class members to take home at the end of the school year
  • The second unit in a five-part summer program
  • Programs are designed to counter summer slide
  • The series is designed by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) and The Salvation Army to promote family literacy
  • The five-week units are divided into daily two-hour block periods
  • The table of contents list the activities in all five units

Pros

  • Packet includes an overview of the program, including the research that supports the program design
  • Also includes suggestions for parent support
  • The table of contents list the activities in all five units

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.6.1.a

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