Common Core PLAYS by Annabelle Howard

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We learn deeply when we play with things. Common Core PLAYS makes it possible to play with classic plays.

Our creative approach to great plays begins with an audio performance of 35 minutes or less that simultaneously provides an onscreen script to follow and captioned images to study while listening. This dramatic introduction to the complete arc of a play maximizes engagement and comprehension.

Plays are inherently complex texts. We embed relevant nonfiction articles to broaden and deepen real-world, related information. This unique blend of drama and nonfiction makes for a rich Common Core experience.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10 Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
Note on range and content of student reading

To build a foundation for college and career readiness, students must read widely and deeply from among a broad range of high-quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts. Through extensive reading of stories, dramas, poems, and myths from diverse cultures and different time periods, students gain literary and cultural knowledge as well as familiarity with various text structures and elements.

Common Core PLAYS

Published on Nov 26, 2015

Classic plays made easy and fun.

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Common Core plays

a creative teaching style

explore play settings

by talking to people who live there.

This was the first Google Hangout for everyone and no one knew what to expect. These 5th grade students from New Britain, CT, did a Mystery Hangout with students in Ukraine by way of making the setting of LIFE IS A DREAM more real.

Students asked each other strategic questions and made educated guesses about each other's location. Students used Google maps, blogged the experience, and then reported out to other students about the experience in an assembly.

Without prompting or guidance, a few students used Google Translate to say thank you and goodbye in Ukrainian.

You can join our MYSTERY HANGOUT COMMUNITY on Google Plus :D

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.6 With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.

"real world" non fiction passages give context

We are hoping to organize a calendar full of Virtual Field Trips connected with each of our 12 plays.

The St. Ives Question, a play for K-1, is centered around an American family visiting Cornwall, in England, and deconstructing a local riddle which the father learns on a walk to St. Ives.

We are talking with a Junior School in St. Ives about doing a Google Hangout where their students walk along the road to St. Ives and recite the riddle with classrooms around the world for a site-specific dramatic reading. We hope to do this via a Google Community called Connected Classrooms, which is open to everyone. Field Trips are archived in YouTube.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

LET students lead

collaborative writing and reading tasks.

These 5th graders chose a scene from a Common Core PLAY and rewrote it in everyday language. The informality of their speeches increased awareness of the effects of style and tone. It was also a creative way to check for understanding.

Common Core PLAYS suggest many tasks like this that allow the teacher to check a Common Core State Standard, create teachable moments, and have fun.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.2 SL.5.2 Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

hearing-impaired students enjoy

reading illustrated scripts while others listen.

This student used an app that formats writing into a newspaper format: http://newspaper.jaguarpaw.co.uk/

She wrote an interview with the main character in a play at a specific moment. She became very clear about an appropriate writing style, her purpose, and her imagined audience.

Although there was a learning curve with the app and many students learning it at the same time, the teacher showed patience and learned alongside students, allowing them to treat each other like colleagues in a workplace. Ultimately, students came together to understand the technical aspects of the task.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

easy navigation

Listen many times.

original speeches included.

Acting games improve comprehension.

Throughout the online script there are optional side trips to take:

1. Compare our speech with the original.
2. Click on a blue word for a contextualized, friendly explanation of an academic word.
3. Click on Stanislavski for an acting tip or game.
4. Click on "REAL WORLD" for a related nonfiction passage.
5. Take whole-class quizzes that cover all the English Literature Standards, ask deep questions, and use the discussion prompts to get students talking on point, using evidence from the play.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.2 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.3 Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.