Presents an outline of six basic preparation activities for student actors, including reading the play, doing historical research, elemental exercises, learning the part, creating the character, and exercises in movement and voice. (JMF)

Role-playing in nutrition has many advantages as an educational technique, including building thoughts, facilitating flexible thinking, promoting awareness, and providing opportunities for practicing food-related behavior. The Curry and Arnaud model for role play is presented in terms of its components and how each component relates to nutrition…

Defines the concepts of simulation and creative drama within educational contexts and outlines six basic elements common to both concepts. Available from: Children's Theatre Review, American Theatre Association, 1029 Vermont Avenue, N.W. Suite 402, Washington, D.C. 20005. (MH)

Offers an exercise involving popular culture to help students experience the contemporary power of Shakespeare. Explains that after reading a Shakespeare play, students develop new cereal brands based upon the work's plot, characters, or themes, afterward naming, designing, creating, and displaying the cereal package. Combines literary analysis,…

This article suggests using drama activities to teach target vocabulary words to students with limited vocabulary development. It presents specific drama activities to implement when introducing new vocabulary, conducting guided practice, facilitating cooperative learning groups, and assigning independent practice. Suggestions are also offered for…

Describes how the authors used process drama as a tool by which students assume the persona of characters in a literary text and improvise what the characters might say and how they might react in challenging situations. Discusses how students created modern dramatic interpretations of traditional texts in order to solve problems that parallel…

This article offers guidelines for teachers on using African folktales to celebrate Black History Month, to explore the structure and content of folktales, to encourage receptivity to multicultural experiences, and to spark creativity in students. Discussion guidelines, suggestions for student-created folktale productions, and a resource list are…

Presents a play tutoring strategy for integrating young developmentally delayed children into play with nondelayed peers. The method used simplifies sociodramatic play through the use of play formats. (RJC)

A classroom technique using information from the mass media as a basis for student-developed dramas and interpretations is explained and described as a series of instructional phases. (MSE)

Outlines storytelling approach, including sources, story selection, learning the story, stage presence and props, and presentation. Methods to incorporate stories into the classroom are listed for language, history and geography, science, art, music, and math. Includes eight additional resources for storytellers. (RE)

Describes how creative drama is central to the core curriculum at Cre-Act School in Pocatello, ID (a private Catholic school for grades K-8) because it triggers the imagination and discovery processes that keep education fresh and vital. (SR)

States that performance activity is itself an experiential learning method which can contribute to other disciplines. Argues that "creative drama for social change" may not be a contradiction in terms. Chronicles the process through which the author and her coleader expanded a leadership "practicum" into an experiment by…

Examined the relationship between dramatic play and creativity from three perspectives: (1) the existing theories related to the association; (2) the research on this issue; and (3) some situational factors of dramatic play related to this relationship. Most of the research supports the relationship between dramatic play and creativity, noting the…

Describes preschoolers' creation and use of Japanese Bunraku-style puppets to enhance their reenactments of personal stories dictated to teachers and written down in the children's scrapbooks. Discusses how the puppet project has been integrated into various curricular areas in the classroom. (HTH)

Describes a drama/discussion technique designed to help students "re-see" their stories and possibly revise their work. Describes in detail how one second grade student went through several revisions of her story based on discussion with fellow students and the teacher during and after dramatization of her story. (RS)