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Reader's Theatre: Literature "Alive" in the Secondary Classroom.
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
Readers Theatre, Brecht and Literature for Student, Classroom and Stage. (Part 2: "A Clown Show.")
Ratliff, Gerald Lee – Secondary School Theatre Journal, 1980
Presents the script of a Readers Theater production to complement a previous article on Bertholt Brecht in theory and practice (EJ 225 131). (JMF)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Dramatics, Drama, Oral Interpretation
Readers Theatre, Brecht and Literature for Student, Classroom and Stage (Part 1: "Alienation" as a Tool of Communication).
Ratliff, Gerald Lee – Secondary School Theatre Journal, 1980
Describes the use of Bertolt Brecht's theories regarding literature and performance. Details the selected use of Reader's Theatre techniques in analyzing and staging literature in the secondary classroom environment. (JMF)
Descriptors: Acting, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Dramatics
The Performance Role of Reader's Theatre in a Literature Classroom
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Ratliff, Gerald Lee – CEA Forum, 2006
The primary pedagogical principle of Reader's Theatre is that it "dramatizes" literature to provide both a visual and an oral stimulus for students who may be unaccustomed to using their imagination to experience literary works like novels, poems, essays, or short stories. Promoting a suggestive, "theatrical mind" approach to…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Oral Interpretation, Literature, Performance Factors