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Ratliff, Gerald Lee – Secondary School Theatre Journal, 1981
Provides six classroom exercises to stimulate student awareness of the principles of Readers Theater. Emphasizes the use of scripts and space, flexibility of voice and body, staging, pantomime, and characterization. (PD)
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Oral Interpretation, Pantomime
Peer reviewedSawyer, Walter; Leff, Arlene – Contemporary Education, 1979
Creative dramatics offer the educator a variety of uses in the development of children's language arts proficiency and psychomotor skill level. (LH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Creative Activities, Language Arts, Learning Activities
Download full textHett, Dorothy; Haring, Dana – 1998
This paper presents creative drama activities based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" for use in ninth-grade English classrooms. The activities are divided into sections on improvisation, pantomime, image-making and creative drama, reader's theater, drama scenes, interior monologue, and producing plays. Each section of the paper…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, English Instruction, Grade 9
Jahanian, Sharon – 1997
This manual is designed to provide creative drama ideas and strategies to teachers of elementary school children with deafness. The purpose of creative drama is to provide opportunities for students to create, share, and explore their ideas. Students also learn to work together, in small and large groups, to portray scenes or stories. The manual…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Creativity, Deafness
Annarella, Lorie A. – 1999
The use of creative drama in a multicultural classroom can allow a teacher to establish a student-focused base for experiential learning and can allow students from various cultures to use drama as a way of expressing their individual cultural differences. Using literature about various ethnic groups in creative drama can contribute to the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Activities, Cultural Differences, Drama
Rees, Elizabeth – 1999
This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "Tales from the Brazilian Jungle" with storyteller Antonio Rocha. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," contains four sheets for use in class. The first, "About the Performance," prepares students for understanding…
Descriptors: Audiences, Cultural Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1983
This three-part guide contains suggestions for theater arts experiences for handicapped students. Part one discusses the rationale, purpose, and scope of this guide as well as four values of theater arts for the handicapped. Part two contains instructions for creative drama activities. Following a page of tips for the teacher, 18 activities using…
Descriptors: Acting, Audiences, Creative Activities, Creative Development
