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      Listed under:  Language  >  Text types  >  Imaginative texts  >  Narratives  >  Plots (Stories)
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      Lip sync challenge

      • TLF-IDM025925

      Students will develop expressive movement skills to perform a Lip Sync Challenge. They will explore character, rhythm, movement, sound and tension and reflect on their own performance skills.

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      Storyline Online: Lotus and feather by Ji-Li Jiang

      • TLF-IDM025713

      A winter illness left Lotus, a little girl, without a voice and without friends. A hunter’s bullet left Feather, a crane, injured and unable to fly. As Lotus nurses Feather back to health, their bond grows. Soon Feather is following Lotus everywhere, even to school! The bird dances to the girl’s reed whistle, much to the ...

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      Storyline Online: The empty pot by Demi

      • TLF-IDM025712

      The Chinese Emperor announces an unusual test to choose an heir—the child who raises the best flowers from a seed given by the Emperor will be his successor. Ping, unaccountably, is unable to get his seed to sprout—but Ping’s empty pot is best of all. This series of videos features illustrated stories read aloud by well-known ...

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      Storyline Online: Clark the shark by Bruce Hale

      • TLF-IDM025707

      Clark is a shark with zing, bang, and boom. Clark zooms into school, crashes through the classroom, and is rowdy at recess. Clark loves life – but when his enthusiasm is too much for his friends, Clark’s teacher, Mrs. Inkydink, helps him figure out a way to tone it down. Clark the Shark celebrates boisterous enthusiasm ...

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      How to retell a story (for kids)

      • TLF-IDM021317

      A short video (1:48) for students explains how to retell a story focusing on characters, setting and major events.

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      Musical theatre – drama

      • TLF-IDM025931

      Discover the dramatic style of musical theatre through performance. Explore the origins and theatrical conventions and techniques of musical theatre as a performance style. Students will create a character performance based on a musical theatre piece.

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      Tune in and tune up

      • TLF-IDM025928

      Tune in and tune up your acting skills with these fun drama warm up games that will strengthen you vocally, physically and imaginatively.

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      Storyline Online: Carla's sandwich by Debbie Herman

      • TLF-IDM025709

      When Carla brings weird sandwiches to school, her classmates have plenty to say about them. “That’s sick!” says Leslie. “That’s disgusting!” says Natie. But Carla thinks otherwise. “It’s unique. It’s creative.” - Just like Carla. This series of videos features illustrated stories read aloud by well-known US based actors ...

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      Monologues

      • TLF-IDM025939

      Develop skills in characterisation through personal storytelling through monologues.

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      TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 3, Year 4 The Arts

      • TLF-IDM025092

      This unit uses various arts practices as the stimuli for exploring the safety message of Stop, Look, Listen, Think. Students create woven artworks to incorporate safety messages; they collaboratively develop a play about safety; and explore rap as a music form and combined with dance convey a safety message in a performance.

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      Melodrama characterisation

      • TLF-IDM025940

      Discover the dramatic form and acting styles of melodrama through the exploration of stock characters and how to act in a melodrama style with large emotions and gestures. Perform various characters through a scripted performance.

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      Storyline Online: Harry the dirty dog by Gene Zion

      • TLF-IDM025708

      Harry is a white dog with black spots who loves everything…except baths. So one day before bath time, Harry runs away.This series of videos features illustrated stories read aloud by well-known US based actors supported by the illustrations. Each book is supplemented with by guides for teachers and parents, aiming to strengthen ...

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      Horton Hears a Who

      • TLF-IDM021434

      This resource for primary school children examines the Dr Seuss picture book classic and the film based on the book. It examines the theme of sustainability. It contains questions and activities on the book and the film, as well as a teacher guide.

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      Let's act out

      • TLF-IDM025839

      Develop skills in preparing and performing a character monologue.

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      TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Foundation, Year 1, Year 2 The Arts

      • TLF-IDM025091

      This unit uses the idea of track safe behaviours as the stimulus for Arts activities including the lines on a platform to explore artworks that use line as medium; dramatising safe behaviours through role play; and exploring sounds and music associated with trains in order to compose and perform music that simulates a train ...

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      The ad campaign

      • TLF-IDM025077

      This learning sequence invites students to analyse the 'Dumb Ways to Die' advertising campaign and how the key messages are communicated to the audience. Students then design a new iteration of the Dumb Ways to Die campaign, that could engage a young audience and provide messages about travel safety not covered by the original ...

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      Stories in the dark

      • TLF-IDM025937

      This resource is designed to support Stage 4 drama students in understanding the characteristics of good radio plays and learning to use vocal expression to create clear and engaging characters. They will rehearse, perform and record a short radio play that can be shared with an audience.

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      Drop the mic – hip hop and Shakespeare

      • TLF-IDM025941

      A fresh and fun approach to Hip Hop theatre exploring, words, rhythm, movement, voice and creative writing. Drop The Mic Hip Hop Theatre class aims to develop voice, rhythm, physicality and character skills.

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      Storyline Online: A tale of two beasts by Fiona Robertson

      • TLF-IDM025710

      There are two sides to every story. In Part One, a little girl finds a strange beast in the woods and takes it home as a pet. She feeds it, shows it off to her friends and gives it a hat. But that night it escapes. Then, in Part Two, the beast tells the story of being kidnapped by the girl, who force-fed it squirrel food, ...

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      Beats and rhymes

      • TLF-IDM025938

      This class develops your vocal skills for performance. Write a Slam Poem or a Rap and then perform them for an audience.

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