by Dan Hammonds Performing a text or seeing a performance of a text greatly increases the likelihood that students will understand what they have read. Teachers who use theater as a medium to connect to literacy help their students remember the plot points. This strategy also builds empathy by asking students to put themselves in the positions of the characters and try to understand the struggles of the character in question.
Visual representation of literacy can also be an incredibly powerful tool. Children can oftentimes find detail in illustrations of a text that they couldn’t find in the wording of the literal document itself. Asking students to look closely at a book’s illustrations or images helps students to connect to the text in a deeper and more genuine way. Similarly, a teacher might ask students to visualize while reading by imagining the text in their mind or by drawing on paper.
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