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Plays and Dances
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Program Guide

• Essential to understanding how the program works
• Student outcomes based on the Multidimensional Curriculum, Multiple Intelligence Theory, Bloom’s Taxonomy and Learning Styles
• Resources
• Language taught in story units
• Classroom systems, routines, management and organization
• Strategies for effective implementation of the program
  
• Evaluation
  
• Brain-based research to support the implementation of Histoires en action!

Teacher’s Unit Guides

• Detailed guide with lesson plans for each unit
• Description of student outcomes based on the Multidimensional Curriculum and Multiple Intelligences theory
• Classroom systems and linguistic routines for each unit
• How to adapt the unit according to time variances (20-, 30-, 40- minute classes)
• Evaluation blackline masters (self, teacher, peer, parent)
• Sample letters to parents
• Play in booklet format
• Game cards
• Complete vocabulary list

Big Books and Overheads

• Play with colour /images in large print
• Available as either Big Books (11” x 17” format) or Overheads (for overhead projectors)

Student Cahier

• Blackline master format
• Gestured words learned from the vocabulary for that unit from DVD
• A wide variety of activities that may be used in partner or individual work, depending on the level of the unit
• Scaffolded language-manipulation activities
• 100+ questions based on the story
• Creative storytelling activities
• Puppets
• Song lyrics
• Supplementary language-manipulation activities for the unit

Student Language Reference Book
Mon livre de mots, a language reference booklet containing the vocabulary in alphabetical order, with space for additional personalized entries.

Posters and Image Cards

• Image cards of words not gestured
  
• Anglais/français cards for entry routines
  
• Calendar with days, weeks, months and seasons
  
• Gestured vocabulary in order of presentation to students
  
• Song and rap lyrics
  
• Grammatical refinements and vocabulary posters

CDs
CD, one per year of the program, containing the three or more songs of the year, plus instrumental version of those songs for performances, if desired Games
Cards and activities in game format to accompany units in the program
Drama Resources
Paper puppets on blackline master, found in student book

DVDs
DVD for each unit, containing:

• Gesture Approach vocabulary
• The play gestured for each story unit
• The play performed for each unit
• Sample questions gestured for each play
• Accompanying dance for each story unit performed by students
• Play performed by students
• Gesture associations
• How to teach grammar concepts through gesture?(e.g. double verb constructions, le passé, etc.)
• Students demonstrating story retelling and Creative Improvisational Storytelling
• Excerpts of classroom activities using the Gesture Approach

	Histoires en action ! Assessment Packages AIM provides extensive summative assessment activities for each play reflecting the vocabulary, spelling and grammar concepts for each play unit. Each set of assessment activities reflects the expected skill development at each stage of the program. The packages include assessment of higher level thinking skills such as creativity and analysis, and are introduced at the appropriate time in the instructional sequence. Each assessment package contains three units. In each unit, you will find a variety of activities to assess students' fluency level and knowledge of vocabulary, spelling and grammar concepts upon completion of each play in the HEA #1 and #2 series.
	Puppets These beautifully designed felt hand puppets are a great addition to an AIM classroom. They can be used for partner/group work with play scripts, for in-class puppet-show presentations and for creative improvisational storytelling. These puppets are hand-sewn by Lisa Murray, an artisan in Ontario.
	Gesture Database Ever wanted to know what a particular gesture is, but have not known where to locate it on your teacher DVD? Well now your problems are solved. With the Gesture Database DVD-ROM, you can look up a gesture by keying in the word or phrase, and Wendy pops up on your computer screen performing the gesture CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
	Parnter/Group Activiy Raps CD This features over a dozen partner/group activity raps designed specifically for AIM classrooms. These include raps for starting and ending partner/group work, starting and finishing class, story retelling, collecting folders, etc.