Here’s a teaching idea from Rachel Kamin, Director of the Temple Israel Libraries & Media Center in West Bloomfield, MI:

“We acted out Jean Marzollo’s Bible stories in class and later with parents.  If you notice, the books are written almost like plays so it's easy to give out parts.  With the 3rd Grade classes, several students volunteered to read each part.  For example, with Daniel in the Lions’ Den, students read the parts for Daniel, the troublemakers, King Darias, the angel, and the ants while the teacher was the narrator.  The rest of the students acted out the part of the lions.  This works especially well if you have multiple copies of the book.  It’s fun to get parents involved, too.  At a parent/child program for our early childhood center students, we asked several parents to volunteer to read the parts and the kids all got to be the lions.  The same model will work with the other books in the series: Miriam and Her Brother Moses, David and Goliath, Jonah and the Whale (and the Worm), and Ruth and Naomi.”

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To hear an interview with Jean Marzollo about her Bible books, please listen to The Book of Life podcast's April 2006 episode at: www.jewishbooks.blogspot.com