Items included in Lend and Extend™ packs:
* Teacher Instruction Guide
* Parent Instruction Guide in English and Spanish with Student Activity Sheet and Parent Form to return to school
* Lend and Extend™ Check Out Log
* 3 microphones (costume items)
* 3 bags for sending books home with students
* 1 Booklet of 40 Reader's Theater "Home Stage Passes" for
rewarding students
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Use Lend and Extend Reader's Theater™ Packs with any Playbook® story set. As shown above, fill each take-home bag with two copies of a Playbook® story, along with the Parent Guide and Student Activity Sheet/ Parent Form in English or Spanish and a microphone prop.
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Follow these simple steps to implement Lend and Extend Reader's Theater™
1. Students read the story within their small multi-leveled classroom group one or more times thereby accomplishing Repeated Guided Oral Reading using higher level students in each group as the guides.
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2. Teacher or Librarian splits a story pack by placing two book copies of the story into each of the three handled bags included along with a copy of the provided Parent Involvement Sheet in either English or Spanish.
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Students are sent home with the take-home pack to engage their parents, siblings and other family members into reading aloud together. Three students per typical story kit can check out the take-home pack at a time. Then teachers rotate the packs to the next three students, and so on.
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4. Easily sharing two books amongst four or more people, family members each take a role and read the story aloud together with creativity and expression. Students and their parents take a small activity quiz together that is signed by the parents and sent back to the school.
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A Closer Look |
Parent Guide (above), including a section for students
to fill out after reading the story with their families,
and a place for parents to sign that the activity was
completed with family participation.
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Check Out Log (above) for keeping track of
Lend and Extend™ story packs and recording
successful parental involvement.
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The Lend and Extend Reader's Theater™ pack comes with a booklet of 40 Home Stage Passes to give to students upon completion of the student activity and signed parent form. Students may use the passes for a variety of rewards of your choice. They could be used as homework passes, to collect extra credit at the end of the term, to choose a small treat, or to earn "points" for their table if your classroom is divided into table teams. Just fill in the chosen reward in the space provided on the pass, and give to students who have turned in their home Reader's Theater assignment! |
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