This morning in 8th grade, I did improv without realizing it. After the fact, I checked with Ashley to confirm that it was in fact improv.
The 8th graders were reading a short story about a cow and a monkey. We read through it one time, and I could tell that about half the class did not understand the story (in Spanish). I asked for two volunteers to come up and act out the parts of the cow and the monkey while I re-read the story.
The students who did not initially get the story really benefited from visually seeing a representation of the action in the story, and the two actors got to demonstrate their comprehension kinesthetically.
It was a short activity that took little to no planning (the thought really didn't occur to me until I saw the blank stares...) and it ended up helping both groups of students - those that understood and those that were lost.
It was a quick, successful implementation of improv.
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