Connecting to Your Teaching

Reflect on Your Practice

• Which of your units of study most lends itself to a puppetry or theater component?
  
• Who in your school might be a good resource in developing a unit like this?
  
• What kinds of adaptations would be required for you to use these approaches with your students?

Adaptations / Extensions to Consider

Scale it back: Try “Readers’ Theater” -- dramatizing literature without the puppets. Or try using finger puppets instead of large-scale puppets.

Connect to history: Bring the historical events and figures you are studying alive through puppetry.

Compare cultures: Dramatize multicultural stories using puppets, for example, Cinderella around the world.

NEXT: Additional Resources, including unit materials that teachers used.