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Stage Struck: Play Analysis

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I choose to read Stage Struck by Tomie DePaola to a kindergarten class. The book Stage Struck was about a kindergarten class putting a play on for the school. The play was Peter Rabbit and the main character wanted to be the star of the play like he was in the last play they put on. He was so excited about the play that he could not focus on his work and kept talking to his friends about the play. The teacher told him to stop talking and when he did not stop, she told him he will not the lead star in the play someone else will be. He was a rabbit in the play and they did not have any lines to say. He remembers in his dance class that the audience like when they react to things on stage, like a smile or frowned. He came up with a plan to …show more content…

I did not think those question were hard but I'm not in kindergarten like they are. I tried to simple them down after the first few question, when I notice that they was not understanding them well. I had never read in front of a class before. I have read in class aloud but not to a class, it is very different. One of the question I asked was, 1) what does stage struck means? Most of the kids said something along that he like being on stage or being the star or like the attention that he would get from being on stage. They got that one pretty good from what I would of answer it. Another one was, 2) why is what he did in the play was wrong? This was hard for some of them but some got the point of the question. They knew he did not follow his part of the play and react to everything that the star did. He was not suppose to do that during the play. 3) Why is Tommy excited when he learns his class is going to put on a play? Some of the students said he likes to be on stage.4) Why does he think he would be perfect to play Peter Rabbit? Few students said something along the lines of he was the lead in the last one and did well. 5)Why didn't he get the part? All the students agree with he won't stop talking. 6) What does Tommy remember that Miss Leah told his dancing class to do on stage? This was a difficult one for the students. But some students said something like to smile. And in the …show more content…

I one I asked in the beginning was, Have anyone read this book before? Surprisingly a few had read or it had been read it to before. I have never heard of this book before this. I did not asked any during reading because I did not think I would have enough time to read the whole book. They still had to pick out book to take to their classroom. For the next read aloud I would definitely do things different. For an examples I would read the book aloud before I do it in front of the class, to see how long it takes. Then I would come up with questions and have the questions simple enough for them to understand whats being asked. But keep the question good enough for them to know if they comprehension the story. And ask questions throughout the story to keep their interest with me. I could tell some of the student was not interesting with the book I reading to them. I believe I did pretty good when I read-aloud. My voice was loud enough for everyone to hear me and I tried to pronounce every word correctly. I think I only messed up on few words in the book. I do not know if any of the kids even notice it. I would not say I was awesome at it but not bad for my first time to read aloud to a whole class before. I kept the book facing the students so they can see the pictures and I only look at the book few times. Most of the time I tried to keep looking at all the students while I read to them. And those are

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