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Story Drama Kristi Staton & Amanda Chamberlin
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Story Drama is… when you take a piece of literature and act it out. the most popular form of creative dramatics
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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 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyv0Zbi9F-E&feature=related 3 rd 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- our-field-lev-vygotsky-playing-learn http://digitaldjs.info/joomla/index.php/story-drama Youtube
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