Art Form: Dance
Supplies Needed
The Big Umbrella book
Vocabulary
Movement - How you use your body to do a dance or action
Size - How big or small something is
Choreographer - The person who creates the
dance
Sequence - Order of events in a story; order of shapes or movements in a dance
Form - The way a story or dance is put together
Purpose - The reason that something exists
Instructions
1. After reading the book, discuss the purpose of the umbrella in the story. Talk about how the umbrella changes its size throughout the story to fit its purpose.
2. Create a movement that demonstrates the umbrella’s size and purpose at the beginning of the story.
3. Create a movement that demonstrates the umbrella’s size and purpose in the middle of the story.
4. Create a movement that demonstrates the umbrella’s size and purpose at the end of the story.
5. Sequence your three movements to show beginning, middle, and end, and practice them in order.
6. Perform your dance for an audience. Explain how each movement showed the purpose of the umbrella at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Extensions
Write a sentence that explains why you chose each movement in your sequence.
Be sure to describe the size of your movement.
Teach your sequence to someone else.
About
The REimagining and Accelerating Literacy through Arts Integration (REALAI) grant supports the literacy achievement of 3,200 students and 170 teachers, media specialists, and literacy coaches across six schools in Georgia and South Carolina.
In addition to professional learning for educators, this project contributes significantly to school library collections through the purchase of developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant books.
This grant also includes parent events to provide families with access to books and other content about how to support their child’s reading development.