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| Supplement your elementary reading and language arts lessons with these activities for use with Mad Libs® books. Use the Mad Libs® books in your classroom, or allow your students to enjoy Mad Libs Junior™ online at FunBrain! |
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| You Don't Say! Use Mad Libs Junior™ stories with dialogue to practice oral reading. Have partners or groups of three select a story and rehearse a Reader's Theatre. Have each child assume a character's role while one child acts as narrator. Remind children to read with appropriate expression, rate, and volume. After they practice, invite children to perform their Reader's Theatre for a classroom audience. |
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| In a Flash! Have children identify difficult words from a Mad Libs Junior™ word list or story. To encourage reading with automaticity, have them make flash cards for the words and practice reading them with a partner. Then have children do at least three rehearsed readings of the story before reading it aloud to partners or a small group. |
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| Radio Broadcast Have children pretend that they are radio announcers. Then have them select a Mad Libs Junior™ story to read aloud to a small group. Provide them with a short cardboard tube with a Ping-Pong bail glued to the top as a toy microphone and have them practice reading their stories as a radio announcer might. Once children are confident in their reading, have them tape record their story and then "broadcast" it for the rest of the class. |
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