Ms. Prosodee taught just down the hall from Ms. Frizzle. 

Yes, THAT Ms. Frizzle.

See, Ms. Frizzle got to teach math and science--the exciting stuff, and she always got first dibs on the Magic Schoolbus even though Ms. Prosodee wrote the grant to get them the funding for it! 

It's tough being the reading and social studies teaching partner to someone who takes kids back in time and to the Earth's core! 

Ms. Prosodee tried so many different things to get her students engaged.

She tried a reader's theater where kids got to act out their favorite parts of the book. 

But it just wasn't as fun as traveling through the human digestive system like they did that morning with Ms. Frizzle.

Ms. Prosodee tried reading with such prosody that she should have won an Oscar for her incredible voices and acting. 

But half the kids were asleep because they were too tired from playing frictionless baseball with Ms. Frizzle.

Then one morning, Ms. Frizzle accidentally left the keys to the magic schoolbus next to the coffeemaker. 

(Ms. Frizzle drinks A LOT of coffee)

Ms. Prosodee knew this was her chance. 

Ms. Prosodee welcomed her students into class and told them she has a special suprise. 

"Today class, we are going to go inside a book!"

"To the bus!" Ms. Prosodee told her class.

"Do you even know how to drive the Magic School Bus?"

"Ms. Frizzle doesn't like it when people touch her stuff!"

"Ugh, we're probably going to go somewhere boring. Like a library." 

The students protested.

 SEATBELTS EVERYONE!

All of the sudden, they arrived at the Globe Theater in Shakespearean times!

The students filed out of bus and saw the actors on the stage.

The actors were practicing their lines to get ready for tonight's performance.

The actors explained they were practicing reading their lines with prosody.

"That means we read with different intonation, pacing, volume, or rhythm. Basically it's reading with expression," one of the actors explained.