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/ Simple Role Drama / Useful Picture Books Drama from Picture Books I often use children's picture books as lesson starters in my classroom. Below are some suggestions, based on the kind of approaches I have taken, for how you can turn a picture book into a Creative Drama lesson. There is also a link to a list of picture books I have found especially well-suited to Drama, each with a short explaination of how I have used it. Simple Story Dramatization This is the most simple and straightforward approach, but it often does not yield a simple result.
Works best with Kindergarten or elementary. Back to top. Problem-Solving Exercise Before reading the story, I tell my students that we will be acting out some of the scenes from the story afterwards. Works best with elementary. Soundtrack Works best with Kindergarten and lower elementary. Narrative Pantomime. Lesson Plan Example for Teaching Drama in the Classroom. Please read this first: These research pages represent work that was done in 2002 as a defense of theater in an educational environment.
The research became the original primary draw for this website. All of the pages are presented in their original form, and are best read in order starting with this page. "Our aims are helping children to understand, so that...they are helped to face facts and to interpret them without prejudice; so that they develop a range and degree of identification with other people; so that they develop a set of principles, a set of consistent principles, by which they are going to live. " - Gavin Bolton. Drama Activities - Improv Games from Beginner to Expert. Whether you are a drama instructor, a stage director, a summer camp counselor, or just someone who wants to organize a fun activity, these theater games will inspire confidence and creativity.
Ice Breakers: These are ideal drama activities to help the participants get to know one another in a friendly, low-key environment. They can also provide a nice friendly warm-up for your actors before delving into more challenging improvisation exercises. Circle-Themed Games Emotion Orchestra Create a Commercial Speak Loudly and Clearly: It doesn't do students any good to be creatively warmed-up if the audience (or the teacher) has no idea what they are saying. Be an Ice Cream Cone: Okay, maybe your students don't need to specifically become an ice cream cone (as the mean drama teacher mentioned in A Chorus Line demanded). Theatre Games, Acting Games, Theatre Improvisation, Drama Games, Classroom Drama Exercises. Drama Activities for High School.
Icebreakers, Warmups, Energerizers, & Deinhibitizers: Activities for getting groups going. Drama. Introduction This study guide is intended for students taking examinations in drama or theatre arts at GCSE level.
It may also be helpful to teachers of drama in Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum in England and Wales, and to anyone teaching drama to teenagers in other parts of the world. I have adapted it from teaching materials prepared by my friend Simone Hennigan of South Hunsley School in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK. Please use the hyperlinks in the table above to navigate this page. If you have any comments or suggestions to make about this guide, please contact me. Back to top Why teach drama? Drama has an important rôle to play in the personal development of our students.
It is vital to create an atmosphere of security, trust and concentration. It's about social skills, communication skills and having fun - we learn by doing! Theatresports™ Games » The Drama Teacher. As most drama educators know, Theatresports™ games are a hell of a lot of fun in the classroom.
Perhaps the best thing about them is that they can literally be used with any age group. Theatresports™ games appeal to primary/elementary students who love simple examples of them so much they are clinging off you as you instruct how to play them(!). High school students find them fun, challenging and rewarding and they can be great to use with adults as well.