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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Improvisation and Learning: Why Do Improv in the Classroom? | |
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| Human Beings Are Improvisers | |
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| What Is Improv? | |
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| Doing What You Don't Know How to Do | |
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| Vygotsky and the Zone of Proximal Development | |
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| Learning and Improvisation | |
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| We Are All Performers | |
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| What Is an Environment? | |
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| What Is a Group? | |
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| Teachers as Improvisers | |
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| What Is Improv? How Do You Do It? | |
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| The Basic Principles of Improv | |
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| Improvising a Stage and Props | |
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| Choosing the Activities | |
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| The Audience Performance | |
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| Who's in Charge of Safety? | |
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| Introducing the Activities | |
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| Bringing the Skills and Language of Improv into (the Rest of) the Classroom | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Including Everyone in Improv | |
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| Glossary of Improvisational Terms | |
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| Creating the Ensemble | |
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| Developing Group-Building Skills | |
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| Developing Emotionally | |
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| Setup of the Chapter | |
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| Activities on Working in Unison | |
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| Sound Ball | |
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| Zip! Zap! Zop! | |
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| Woosh! | |
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| Pass the Pulse | |
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| Synchronized Clapping | |
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| Mirrors | |
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| Maah | |
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| Counting, How High? | |
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| My Song, Our Song | |
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| Group Freeze | |
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| Yes, Let's | |
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| What Are You Doing? | |
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| Group Sculpture | |
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| Make a Machine | |
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| Still Life | |
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| Remote Control | |
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| Activities on Emotions | |
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| Shout It Out | |
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| Gestures | |
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| Emotions/Motions | |
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| Pass the Face | |
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| Emotional Journey | |
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| Emotional Coach | |
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| Emotional Melange | |
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| Emotional Bus | |
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| Emotional Orchestra | |
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| The Nuisance Game | |
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| Optimist/Pessimist | |
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| Improvising Language and Literacy | |
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| Language Learning | |
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| Performing as Readers and Writers | |
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| Reading and Writing as Ensemble Activities | |
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| Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Relationally | |
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| Creating Language | |
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| Improvising Literacy All the Time | |
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| "Yes, and" Collective Story and other "Yes, and" Extensions | |
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| Once Upon a Time...The End | |
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| I'm Sorry, Did You Say...? | |
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| Live Action Illustration | |
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| Fairy Tale in a Minute | |
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| The Author Comes to Life | |
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| Blah, Blah, Blah | |
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| Boppity, Bop, Bop, Bop | |
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| Gibberish Poem | |
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| What's the Meaning of This? | |
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| Alliteration | |
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| Hyperbole | |
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| Read It Again, Sam | |
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| Fake It | |
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| Construct-o-Sentence | |
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| Syllable Bingo | |
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| Collective Spelling | |
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| Preposition Gymnastics | |
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| This Is a What? | |
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| Hot Seat (Literacy Version) | |
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| Giving Direction | |
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| Silly Debate | |
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| Information Booth | |
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| Improvising Mathematics | |
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| Math as Play | |
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| The Language of Mathematics | |
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| Creating Math Performances | |
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| Improvising Mathematical Conversations | |
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| Compulsive Math Gal/Guy | |
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| Captain Precision | |
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| Emotional Math Class | |
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| "I'm Sorry, Can You Explain That Another Way?" | |
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| Jargon | |
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| Mathematical "Yes, and" | |
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| Word Problems Come to Life (and Get Out of Control) | |
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| Improvisational Word Problem | |
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| We Are a Square | |
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| Shape Sculpting | |
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| Human Balance | |
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| Expanding Cast | |
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| Half the Time | |
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| Time of Your Life | |
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| Attributes | |
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| Group Juggle | |
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| Huggy Bear/Buddy Up! | |
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| Mingle | |
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| Pattern Dance | |
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| Upset | |
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| Place Value Game | |
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| Odds or Evens | |
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| Math-a-Thon | |
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| Math-Off | |
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| Zip! Zap! Zop! (Math Version) | |
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| Improv in the Content Areas | |
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| The Performance of Science and Social Studies | |
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| Performing Ahead of Yourself | |
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| Performing as Meaning-Makers | |
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| Improvising and Information | |
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| Setup of the Chapter | |
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| General Content Area Activities | |
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| We Are All... | |
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| Sentence Shuffle | |
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| Fish Bowl | |
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| One-Track Mind | |
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| Persuasion | |
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| Hot Seat (Content Area Version) | |
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| Collective Tour Guide | |
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| Three-Headed Expert | |
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| We Can Sell Anything | |
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| Social Studies Activities | |
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| I Love My Neighbor | |
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| Occupation | |
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| Time Warp | |
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| What If? (History Version) | |
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| Correspondence | |
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| Rant or Rave | |
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| Tableau | |
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| Party Game | |
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| History Bus | |
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| Visitor from the Past | |
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| Talk Show | |
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| Helping Hands | |
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| Science Activities | |
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| Three Changes | |
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| Ecosystem | |
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| Boundaries | |
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| Rain Noises | |
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| Heartbeat | |
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| I Am a Tree | |
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| Grab Bag | |
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| Metamorphosis | |
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| French Telephone | |
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| Rain or Shine | |
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| Slide Show | |
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| More Advanced Scene Work | |
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| Putting on a Show! | |
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| What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
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| What If? (Scene Work Version) | |
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| Freeze | |
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| Options | |
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| Secret | |
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| Sitting, Standing, Kneeling | |
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| Slow-Motion Olympics | |
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| Invisible Kickball | |
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| Index of Improv Activities Listed by Level of Difficulty | |
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| Index of Improv Activities Listed by Appropriate Age | |
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| Index of Improv Activities Listed by Other Relevant Subject Areas | |
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| Resources | |
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| About the Authors | |