{"id":387,"date":"2021-09-20T15:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/?page_id=387"},"modified":"2022-02-09T16:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:32:53","slug":"action-antics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/kindergarten\/oral-language-kit\/oral-language-games\/action-antics\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Antics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"Section-One\" class=\"section\">\n\n\n\n\t<p>This game can be incorporated during Read Aloud and Shared Reading sessions. Students demonstrate their comprehension of spoken language as they interpret various texts read aloud. The game allows students to use pitch and inflection to convey meaning and improves concentration and listening skills.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Blue_hi-lite\"><strong>Materials<\/strong>:<br>\n&#8211; <\/span>a narrative text that includes repetitive names, phrases, events (e.g., <em>The Very Cranky Bear, Chicken Licken, A Lion at Bedtime, The Little Red Hen<\/em>, etc.) <strong class=\"Blue_hi-lite\"><br>\nGrouping: <\/strong>whole class<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"Playing_the_Game\"><span class=\"heading2\">Playing the Game<\/span> <\/h2>\n <ol>\n    <li>Read the text aloud with expression and enthusiasm. Discuss the characters, events, problem, and solution in the story.<\/li>\n     <li>Have students sit in a large circle.<\/li>\n     <li>Allocate different actions\/sounds\/words\/sentences to different people or events in the story. For example, using the Read Aloud text, <em>The Very Cranky Bear,<\/em> the following \u2018antics\u2019 could be assigned:<\/li>\n     <ul type=\"disc\" class=\"no-margin\">\n  <li>Jingle Jangle Jungle \u2013  stand tall, arms above head, sway arms while saying \u201cJingle Jangle  Jungle\u201d<\/li>\n  <li>Moose \u2013 hands wide-spread  by head and chanting \u201cmarvellous, marvellous, marvellous\u201d<\/li>\n  <li>Lion \u2013 hands sweeping  through hair saying \u201cI\u2019m so gorgeous.\u201d<\/li>\n  <li>Zebra \u2013 arms laying  across body and make stripes down body and whispering \u201cfantastic, fantastic, fantastic\u201d<\/li>\n  <li>Sheep \u2013 baaing the words  \u201cplain, plain, plain\u201d<\/li>\n  <li>Bear \u2013 roaring a cranky  \u201cROAR\u201d<\/li>\n  <li>sleep \u2013 hands with palms  together and head laying on hands, making a snoring sound<\/li>\n     <\/ul>\n     <li>Discuss how pitch and inflection make a difference to the meaning in the story (e.g., saying \u201cmarvellous\u201d in a dull, tired voice versus using an excited, enthusiastic voice). <\/li>\n     <li>Practise the \u2018antics\u2019 a few times with the class.<\/li>\n     <li>Read through the text slowly and have students respond with the assigned actions\/sounds\/words\/sentences.<\/li>\n <\/ol>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This game can be incorporated during Read Aloud and Shared Reading sessions. Students demonstrate their comprehension of spoken language as they interpret various texts read aloud. The game allows students to use pitch and inflection to convey meaning and improves concentration and listening skills. Materials: &#8211; a narrative text that includes repetitive names, phrases, events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":368,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_education_content.php","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-387","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.scholastic.ca\/lpeyx-teaching-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}