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How to encourage children to speak out loud?
Hi... I teach a children's drama class and for some reason, my current group of children are very reluctant to read or speak aloud in front of each other. They will read or perform a monologue to me if there is other activity going on around them, but many of them refuse to participate in 'performance' situations with the other children watching.
I have never had this problem before. Usually there is at least a couple of very outgoing children who will take the lead in such activities, which gives the others confidence to give it a go, but with my current group they all see painfully shy. Any hints or tips would be welcome.
4 Answers
- Lapiz Dominoes.Lv 77 years agoFavourite answer
You might tell them they ALL need to practice hard
outdoors for next week`s Shouting , Yelling and
Squeaking Competition? Tell them which class upon which day,
and have it outdoors(between classes if need be).
A One Two Three NOW.
Have it last all of 3 minutes to let the scaredy-cats see that it-is safe?
Use your good savvie to award the three prizes to
include a `most nervous` and
afterwards give them ALL a tiny reward (biscuit, eraser),
even those who did not do anything and those who, `won`
Will build some unity and rapport, hopefully.
With savvie, they ought get over speaking which you can
encourage during the post-cacophony-fest?
*Ask them indoors what they thought about it..enjoyed, hated it etc?
Source(s): Worked just for a very short time with childrenwith speech - difficulties. - ?Lv 67 years ago
It could be enough to try some group games. Or team games. That will build up their social awareness and make them less tentative about acting in front of everyone.
Stuck in the mud.
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A good one might be the game where you say an object and they have to make it with their bodies. to do this they'd have to communicate and be active.
I think the struggle is that there is a stalemate with being the one who goes first or a lack of trust between the other kids and the best way to dispel that would be ensemble stuff where they will all feel less vulnerable because they all HAVE to do it.
Make them do team stuff I think would be how id' approach it.
- 7 years ago
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- Anonymous7 years ago
We used to play a game called ' jobbies ' on the bus whereby one person starts off saying jobbies or any rude word then the next person has to say it a bit louder and so on with the winner being the loudest , so get them on a bus or a train or a library or anywhere public and start playing , hope this helps.
