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Peer reviewedWilliamson, Peter A.; Silvern, Steven B. – Childhood Education, 1986
Describes procedures found to be effective for eliciting children's creative dramatic play in the classroom. A second-grade classroom scenario provides an example of the way key components of play training techniques can be implemented by the teacher and indicates the decision-making processes to be addressed.
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Dramatics, Decision Making
Peer reviewedKnipping, Nancy Y. – Childhood Education, 1991
Describes a discourse created by second graders who were deliberating about important social issues in the course of discussing a story. (BB)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Dialogs (Language), Dramatic Play, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedMoore, Blaine H.; Caldwell, Helen – Journal of Educational Research, 1993
This study compared the effects of drama and drawing planning activities with a traditional planning activity (discussion) on the quality of second and third graders' narrative writing. After 15 sessions, researchers found that drama and drawing were effective forms of rehearsal for narrative writing and more successful than discussion. (SM)
Descriptors: Creative Expression, Creative Teaching, Discussion, Dramatic Play
