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Ages 5-9
Story Drama: Creating stories through role playing, improvising and reading aloud
2nd edition
David Booth
Revised and expanded, this new edition of David Booth’s best-selling resource for teachers explores constructive ways to use drama and story to engage students in learning through all areas of the curriculum — literacy, social studies, and the arts in education.
Drawing from his own experiences, this guide offers a compelling chronicle of the developments in drama education over a forty-year teaching career. The author provides teachers with strategies and techniques for moving students inside the stories they read or experience together, and helps to build community. Presenting proven ways to use all types of stories, each chapter features effective frameworks and workshop lessons that can be easily implemented in any classroom.
A comprehensive approach to using story and drama with children of all ages, the book offers teachers:
- the theoretical background they need to create a powerful story community through drama;
- practical examples of interactive and cooperative role playing with students;
- resources for exploring personal response through all the arts;
- strategies for helping students develop skills as story tellers, story builders and story makers;
- innovative ways to incorporate a variety of drama processes — improvising, role playing, mime, storytelling, enacting, playmaking, reading aloud, writing in role, and performing.
David Booth shows new and experienced teachers alike how to use the power of drama and story to create vibrant learning opportunities for all students.
Contents
Introduction; Building a Story Community; Involving the Students in Planning for Story Drama; Exploring Stories through Dramatic Activities; Finding Dramatic Ways for Students to Retell Stories; Choosing Structures for Creating Drama on the Story; Creating New Stories Together Using Drama; Writing Inside and Outside the Drama Experience; Finding Strategies for Supporting Literacy through Drama; Using Students' Knowledge and Expertise to Structure the Story Drama; Helping Students Make Art and Life Connections; Sharing Story Dramas as Actors and as Audience; Assessing Learning from Story Drama; Appendices; Index
2005 128pp paperback
978-155138-192-3
£19.99
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