It's one thing to expand a student's vocabulary; it's another to increase their fluency. Helping a student increase the variety and sophistication of their sentences is the next step to helping them develop their fluency in English. Here's a simple exercise that will expand students' dialogues and make for exciting discussion.

1. Choose a line of dialogue from the story (child come out from under that bed, it's only thunder you're hearing).

2. Brainstorm a list of feelings and write them on the board (angry, silly, happy, miserable, etc.)

3. Divide the class into groups of four.

4. Have each group rewrite the dialogue to match the feeling. A scared example might be "child get under the bed, the thunder is coming!" A happy example might be "The thunder is gone child, come out from under that bed!"

5. Groups mingle and share their dialogue in a LitART Party.