Provide ample time for children to create scripts and scenarios. Develop their background knowledge for the play setting
Encourage and guide rehearsals of dramatic retellings. Take part in the action yourself, demonstrating for children ways in which dramatization works.
Guide children in dramatizations that involve print—for example, a restaurant scene that requires a menu and a pad to write down food orders—reinforced by explanations of how menus work.

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