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RT Update – A Voice From The Side
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“which we had read and discussed A LOT so that they knew it really well”
Ben, This line is so important. You have it as kind of an aside, but I think it’s crucial. I’ve tried to have students act out scenes before they really read it or understood it and it just doesn’t work. They have to be comfortable with it before acting it out.
Maybe that’s why it worked. I put up a text of about three paragraphs and drilled it for three days before trying the CI. You are right.
So does RT work like this?:
-You project the story up on the board, or screen, and you read it aloud to the class. As you read slowly, the students act out the story as it is being read. Is that RT in a nutshell?
Do you circle while doing RT?
That’s the very basic thing. Jason with his theatre training, has taken it to a high art. I am convinced that the master CI teacher of the future will have mastery over RT. That would give him or her mastery in each of the three steps – PQA (step 1), Stories (step 2) and Reading with a heavy emphasis on RT (Step 3). But there is a lot more to it. I am trying to write a preliminary template the we can refer to, but it’s not ready. Yes, circling is a part of all CI that we do. I asked Diana to ask Jason to do something with RT training this summer in Breck.
Wow Ben, that sounds exciting. What a great feeling to see kids walk out of the classroom happy! I have to agree with Annemarie and yourself that they would definitely need to be comfortable with the language before attempting RT.
I would love to see it done this summer!
Diana if you are reading this call Jason now and set it up. We have people who want to see the master in his RT atelier. I was watching the movie Hugo today and saw similarities between Jason and the Ben Kingsley character. Pure vision.