For my fifth-grade students, I sometimes show silent Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, or Charlie Chaplin shorts, and have students write the dialogue based on the actions of the characters. It’s a lot of fun and gets younger students to see dialogue as something that must be attuned to separately from, yet complimentary to, the plot.
Every time I do your peer review strategy (switch papers, let them read each other's out loud) I think about what a great editing strategy this is and that I should do it more often :)
For my fifth-grade students, I sometimes show silent Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, or Charlie Chaplin shorts, and have students write the dialogue based on the actions of the characters. It’s a lot of fun and gets younger students to see dialogue as something that must be attuned to separately from, yet complimentary to, the plot.
Cool idea! That might be worth stealing.
Steal away!!
Every time I do your peer review strategy (switch papers, let them read each other's out loud) I think about what a great editing strategy this is and that I should do it more often :)
Thanks! That means a lot!