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Story Drama
Kristi Staton & Amanda Chamberlin
Story Drama is…
- when you take a piece of
literature and act it out.
- the most popular form
- f creative dramatics
Story Drama Kristi Staton & Amanda Chamberlin Story Drama is - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Story Drama Kristi Staton & Amanda Chamberlin Story Drama is - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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
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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
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You can use story drama when reading…
- A storybook
- A play
- Lyrics
- Folk tales
- Nursery Rhymes
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Story Drama helps develop…
- Vocabulary
- Story understanding
- Composition
- Sense of adventure
- Different views of characters
- Different decisions
- Different plot lines
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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
3rd grade class project
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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.
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ACTIVITY!!!!
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This is what not to do :]
http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=Z_qh3urEOK8
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References
- http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/pioneers-
- ur-field-lev-vygotsky-playing-learn
- http://digitaldjs.info/joomla/index.php/story-drama
- Youtube