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First graders learn about different communities, traditions and folktales. In addition to these elements of our curriculum, students are learning so much about stories. They are learning how to read them, write them, and identify important elements of a story. Retelling fairytales and folk tales is a great way to give students the opportunity to experience these things in a very hands on way that allows for all students to participate regardless of their current academic level. This is also an important part of helping our DLI (dual language immersion) students use their target language. It is very difficult for the first graders in particular to be able to produce language, but doing so in a theater/play setting allows them to develop vocabulary while playing a part they are already familiar with. They can learn a few lines and because they are already familiar with the story they are able to make sense of what they are hearing and saying and are then better able to retain words and statements that they feel they can use in other settings as well. This provides a much more meaningful language experience for language learning students. This also gives students the opportunity to work with other students and learn how to interact and be a part of a community, to contribute, and develop social skills. This is another important part of both first grade social studies curriculum and the second step program.

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First graders learn about different communities, traditions and folktales. In addition to these elements of our curriculum, students are learning so much about stories. They are learning how to read them, write them, and identify important elements of a story. Retelling fairytales and folk tales is a great way to give students the opportunity to experience these things in a very hands on way that allows for all students to participate regardless of their current academic level. This is also an important part of helping our DLI (dual language immersion) students use their target language. It is very difficult for the first graders in particular to be able to produce language, but doing so in a theater/play setting allows them to develop vocabulary while playing a part they are already familiar with. They can learn a few lines and because they are already familiar with the story they are able to make sense of what they are hearing and saying and are then better able to retain words and statements that they feel they can use in other settings as well. This provides a much more meaningful language experience for language learning students. This also gives students the opportunity to work with other students and learn how to interact and be a part of a community, to contribute, and develop social skills. This is another important part of both first grade social studies curriculum and the second step program.

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