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Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Charades

The Librarian uses the conventions of the game of charades to communicate. Have a go at playing this game.
The person who is "in" has to communicate a book, film or TV show title using mime and gesture. The following gestures are used:
* First of all, the person who is "in" uses gesture to indicate the medium (hands opening and closing like a book to indicate a book, cranking a handle near the head to indicate a...
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