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We are currently refreshing our shelves and this title is 70% off with promo code: Super70 If you love fostering genuine creativity and spontaneous language in your classroom, this book is for you. Designed especially for teachers who value imagination, collaboration, and authentic communication, it guides students step by step into meaningful improvisation. Each activity follows a three-part structure. Getting Ideas warms students up with accessible prompts and key vocabulary connected to the scenario. The Story provides a simple narrative frame along with guided Q&A to spark curiosity and expand ideas. Finally, The Improvisation invites students to bring the story to life as they build characters, make choices, and perform their own versions of the scene. The result is active engagement, confident speaking, and creative storytelling--all with minimal teacher prep and maximum student enjoyment.

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Lou Spaventa, author of Improvisations for Creative Language Practice was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1968, Lou began his life journey as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Korea. He has lived in Korea, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Mexico, Yugoslavia, England, Barbados, Buffalo, New York, State College, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Honolulu, Hawaii. He has been a Peace Corps Volunteer, a Fulbright lecturer, a teacher trainer, a college writing professor, and a U.S. foreign service officer. He eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, California where he taught writing at UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College.

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