Drama Strategies in Action: The Revolving Role
You will ask students to take on a role of the characters in the text during specific scenes. They will enter the "story" as those characters, visualizing and interacting within that world. Roles can switch once or twice during the book or over class periods as students are asked to take on addition characters or another perspective. 
The Little Red Hen
1. Students Pair Up: Student A is the Little Red Hen
Student B is Little Red Hen’s Mother
Pause at the point in the story where the Little Red Hen asks all her friends to help her bake the bread, and they all say no. Have students visualize that Little Red Hen then runs home to talk to her mother. Begin the enactment of that conversation.
2. Role Reversal
Student B: The Little Red Hen
Student A: Mom
Pause at the end of the story when all the animal friends have smelled the bread, asked for a bite, and Little Red Hen says no to them. While she is eating her hard work, her mother comes by and has something to say. Students enact that conversation.
3. Conclude by having students engage in a discussion about what they now understand from the story and what they have experienced.
