Comparing tales through performance

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.02: Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ___ do) in simple texts.

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.07: Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters and concepts within and across texts.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.03: Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words (e.g., plot, setting, major events, characters, author's message, connections, topic, key vocabulary, key concepts, text features).

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.04: Identify and interpret elements of fiction and nonfiction and support by referencing the text to determine the:
    • author's purpose.
    • plot.
    • conflict.
    • sequence.
    • resolution.
    • lesson and/or message.
    • main idea and supporting details.
    • cause and effect.
    • fact and opinion.
    • point of view (author and character).
    • author's use of figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor, imagery).
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.02: Identify and discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, concepts and ideas within and across selections and support them by referencing the text.

Grade 4

• Goal 2: The learner will apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.04: Identify and interpret elements of fiction and nonfiction and support by referencing the text to determine the:
    • plot.
    • theme.
    • main idea and supporting details.
    • author's choice of words.
    • mood.
    • author's use of figurative language.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections with text through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.02: Analyze characters, events, and plots from different selections and cite supporting evidence

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.01: Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).

Theatre Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.02: Retell stories through guided dramatic play from a read-aloud text.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.04: Dramatize, through guided dramatic expression, stories from a read-aloud text, poem, fairytale or other form of literature.

Grade 3

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.02: Recognize the beginning, middle and end of a story.
• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.05: Dramatize stories through guided dramatic expression from a story.

Grade 4

• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.05: Create dramatizations based on texts.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.02: Retell stories through guided dramatic play from text read aloud.