Story Drama Kristi Staton & Amanda Chamberlin
Story Drama is… • when you take a piece of literature and act it out. • the most popular form of creative dramatics
Story Drama can be used in… • lower elementary classrooms – younger children enjoy acting stories out as it is being read • upper elementary classrooms – older children enjoy exploring the concept or theme of the entire story
You can use story drama when reading… • A storybook • A play • Lyrics • Folk tales • Nursery Rhymes
Story Drama helps develop… • Vocabulary • Story understanding • Composition • Sense of adventure • Different views of characters • Different decisions • Different plot lines
2 Examples of how you can use story drama in the classroom • You, as the teacher reads the story while the students act the story out. – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqiYK6E84FQ • You give all the control to the students. they retell the story in their own words. – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyv0Zbi9F-E&feature=related 3 rd grade class project
Vygotsky "In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.“ - Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) • He believes child development is the result of the interactions between children and their social environment.
ACTIVITY!!!!
This is what not to do :] http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=Z_qh3urEOK8
References • http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/pioneers- our-field-lev-vygotsky-playing-learn • http://digitaldjs.info/joomla/index.php/story-drama • Youtube
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