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Enriching and Assessing Young Children's Multimodal Storytelling
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Wessel-Powell, Christy; Kargin, Tolga; Wohlwend, Karen E. – Reading Teacher, 2016
This article provides primary teachers with assessment tools and curricular examples to expand writers' workshop by adding a multimodal storytelling unit on drama and filmmaking, allowing students to create engaging off-the-page stories through films and play performances that enrich writing. Too often, children's literacy abilities are assessed…
Descriptors: Young Children, Story Telling, Enrichment Activities, Literacy
Silent Partners: Actor and Audience in Geese Theatre's "Journey Woman"
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Bottoms, Stephen – Research in Drama Education, 2010
This essay considers the performance context and aesthetics of "Journey Woman", a play devised to initiate a week-long rehabilitative groupwork programme for female prisoners. Although Geese Theatre UK are one of the country's longest-established companies specialising in drama work within the criminal justice sector, this 2006 piece is…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Audiences, Foreign Countries, Females
Creating the Story in Drama.
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Craig, Therese; Edwards, Joyce – Youth Theatre Journal, 1992
Describes a research project that focused on the work of a teacher and students in an afterschool drama class during two academic years. Explores the development of the researchers' and the teacher's increased understandings about effective processes for story development in dramatic contexts. (SR)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Drama, Dramatic Play, Dramatics
A Decade of Dramatizing Folklore.
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Atkin, Flora B. – Children Today, 1980
Overviews the history of storytelling and describes the development and past activities of the In-School Players of Montgomery County, a unit of Maryland's Adventure Theatre, which produces original plays from folklore materials and performs them for elementary school students. (RH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Dramatic Play, Dramatics, Elementary School Curriculum
Drama Prompt Book: Guidelines for the Teacher.
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Dugger, Anita; And Others – 1974
The curriculum outlined in this document was designed for the creative teacher to use in a learning environment which encourages pupils to experiment, to explore, to develop a positive self-image, and to express ideas freely and without fear of losing dignity. This document defines 19 drama skills and describes drama activities, with suggested…
Descriptors: Choral Speaking, Class Activities, Creative Activities, Curriculum Guides
Readers Theatre: Story Dramatization in the Classroom.
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Sloyer, Shirlee – 1982
Comprehensive instructions for selecting, staging, directing, and evaluating a program of readers theatre is provided for teachers of the elementary school grades. A step-by-step guide using a wide variety of detailed examples is presented in the first section of the booklet. Various chapters in this section discuss (1) readers theatre's unique…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
CREATIVE EXPERIENCES IN ORAL LANGUAGE.
HENRY, MABEL WRIGHT, ED. – 1967
IDEAS FOR THE CREATIVE USE OF ORAL LANGUAGE IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM ARE PRESENTED IN THIS SYMPOSIUM. PART 1, "THE NEED FOR CREATIVE EXPERIENCES IN ORAL LANGUAGE" BY M.W. HENRY, IS CONCERNED WITH THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CREATIVE ORAL LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES AND THE ACQUISITION OF READING AND WRITING SKILLS. PART 2, "CHORIC INTERPRETATION" BY…
Descriptors: Choral Speaking, Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics, Creative Expression