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TEACHERS
"Each week the students were looking forward to the program. They liked the idea that they were in charge of the creativity. The children knew what was expected from them--this was important."
-Second Grade Teacher, P.S. 154
"Laura Poe is an excellent performer, teacher and human being. My Students were able to feed on that positive energy. Therefore their overall enthusiasm produced a wonderful performance."
- Second Grade Teacher
"(The teaching artist) made everyone feel as if they had an important role to play and what they had to say was valued."
- Third Grade Teacher, P.S. 111
"Children were able to visualize the text. They were also able to see how a play can change from the text."
- Fourth Grade Teacher, P.S. 197
"It was a great opportunity to look at my kids as talented funny kids rather than students!"
-Fourth Grade Teacher, P.S. 54
"The experience helped the children to put their words into text, organize their ideas and develop a sense of storytelling. Exercises helped the children to focus on their task and gave them the freedom to express themselves through movement and drama."
- Second Grade Teacher
"Listening to the music (from Appelemando's Dreams) for me was like when I'm reading books. Your imagination makes pictures as you go along. It was great to be able to watch the kids coming up with their own stories when they were listening to the opera. It was another way for them to express themselves and be creative."
- Second Grade Teacher
"As a result of Making Books Sing writing skills and vocabulary have expanded. Kids are more excited about reading. Apprehension to speak in public has reduced. It has put learning into their own hands by letting them take poetic license. It ahs allowed me to find strengths in children that I would have missed."
- Third Grade Teacher
"Through the team work, students learned important life lessons. Students were eager to share their ideas and plans for the book with their peers."
- Third Grade Teacher
"The whole experience was superb. It was well coordinated and organized. I felt a sense of safety. The show was wonderful - The intimate venue made it all the more enjoyable. [I] loved meeting actors and author -- [their] answering of student's questions a plus!"
- Literacy Specialist, Third-Fifth Grades
"Making Books Sing provided my students with several learning experiences. My students were also introduced to a world of drama, taking a book and revising its story with a focus in mind. It taught them speaking and listening skills as well as the value of teamwork. I learned about my students. I saw shy children come alive when acting and writing scripts."
- Fourth Grade Teacher
"My student doesn't do so well academically, but during Making Books Sing she began to feel really good about herself. Her academics have picked up. I think it have her more self-confidence in the classroom. She participated more, she reads more now when we read out loud. I think Making Books Sing gave her that confidence."
- Fourth Grade Teacher
"(Making Books Sing) touched every single area of our academics. From Beautiful Warrior through Butterfly Boy and into our social studies unit, we learned about the culture and the customs. The children had a ball."
- Sixth Grade Teacher
"I can attest to the change that your program has been able to bring about. (For) some teenagers who never had the opportunity to go to the theatre - the Arts are now a curtain, behind which the mysteries of their imagination are revealed."
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