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In School Residencies

After School Residency

Small Group Intervention

Play In A Book is a CPS preferred vendor for In-school Arts Services.  This is a 30-session program that includes materials and an assessment module that can boost critical reading skills by an average of 31%.  Our direct instruction introduces acting skills while focusing on improving literacy.

Up to 16 students spend 20 sessions reading and discussing a classic story and learning how to bring the characters to life on stage for a culminating performance.  Play In A Book After School includes an introduction to theater as well as drama exercises that help engage the student in the art of the story.

Available for students grades 1 – 5 during the school day, this pull out program builds key reading skills in struggling readers through drama based methods.  Lesson plan tailored to meet student needs based on test scores and teacher recommendation. Includes materials.

Professional Development

"Shakespeare Fights!"

Play In A Math Book

A three to four hour hands on workshop designed to prepare teachers to use the Act It Read It Series™ of books and companion workbooks to build key reading skills through drama.  With purchase of materials.

Join a trained stage combat instructor in presenting selected fight scenes from William Shakespeare's works.  This is an introductory course to the work of the Bard as well as a dive into rudimentary stage combat skills that serve to sell the idea that the Capulets didn't all that much like the Montagues.

This new residency brings the fun of the PIAB process to core Math instruction.  Math through story, movement, and manipulatives with Numbers Nuñez, and the Math Rats.

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