Story Drama
Story Drama can be used in two different ways:
1.) Story drama can be used to retell a story. By taking on roles, kids re-enact the story from the book.
2.) Story drama can be a time where improvisation is used to explore the significant themes, issues and relationships in the story.
1.) Story drama can be used to retell a story. By taking on roles, kids re-enact the story from the book.
2.) Story drama can be a time where improvisation is used to explore the significant themes, issues and relationships in the story.
"Drama in the language classroom is not just an activity to be used after reading a story, as a check for comprehension, or as a means of motivating children to read a particular selection. Although drama may help in these goals it is, more importantly, a 'powerful medium' for helping children make learning happen." (The Drama Classroom: Action, Reflection, Transformation)
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Quote from the book:
The Drama Classroom: Action, Reflection, Transformation By: Philip Taylor "Drama helps children journey inside the story garden, so that they can construct the symbols, images, and narrative sequence ''in action' thus reexamining the story's ideas, experimenting with them, learning to 'play' with the narrative, and in reflection, coming to an understanding of both the story's possibilities and the art form used to create it. In drama, the mutual, symbolic collaboration of ideas, undetermined by plot allows children to pause in a fictional present, linger on an image, or move forward, backward, and sideways, in an attempt to make meaning happen. Time can be averted and ideas juxtaposed. If a narrative is being used as the source of a drama, the children can identify with and clarify what is happening both in the book, in the drama, and in their own lives. Learning is integrated as they engage with the symbolic art forms of both modes." Great Example of Story Drama
The Teacher reads the book The Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza. Then the class creates their own "Pizza Drama Center" in the classroom. The children take on different roles of server and customers. This technique is used to allow the children to experience what it would be like to go to a pizza restaurant.
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A Princess Story
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Where The Wild Things Are
Performed by Kindergarteners |