Which activity involves dramatizing the highlights of a story in class?

• A. Paraphrasing sentences
• B. Dramatizing the highlights of the story
• C. Translating text
• D. Summarizing chapters

Answer: (B)

Understanding how performance-based activities help students interpret a narrative. The activity of dramatizing the highlights of a story in class means students act out key moments, scenes, and dialogue to bring the text to life. By performing, they must recall events, interpret characters’ motives, and convey emotions and tones, which deepens comprehension beyond reading alone. It also strengthens speaking and listening skills, collaboration, and empathy as students explore different perspectives.

This approach is different from paraphrasing, which focuses on restating sentences in one's own words; translating, which changes the text into another language; and summarizing, which condenses the main ideas into a shorter written form. Those tasks emphasize rewriting or shortening text, while dramatizing centers on performance and interpretation of the story.