Drama Smart
Drama Smart: Readers Theatre
February 21, 2011 in 5-8 Beginning Readers, 9-12 Tween, Drama Smart, Literacy Tips, Tip of the Week
Practice your silliest, most serious, angriest, saddest, scariest, or most scared voices together and prepare to have a lot of laughs with readers theatre. Readers theatre is a tool used by teachers to increase children’s fluency and prosody–their ability to read with expression. The focus is not to memorize lines, but to read them, letting your child create the character with his or her voice along the way. Copies can be made of the script, or one copy can be passed around. Most plays are for 2-5 people and 2-3 pages long with big print.
Try these books to find fun readers theatres you can perform at home — for the family, by the family, with friends, or with homemade puppets.
–Lauren McMullan, BYU Student, School of Education
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Drama Smart: Produce Your Own Plays
September 27, 2010 in 13+ Teen, 5-8 Beginning Readers, 9-12 Tween, Drama Smart, Literacy Tips, Tip of the Week
Borrow an entertainment idea from Little Women and create some memories by putting on your own dramatic production. Get the neighborhood kids together or do the play as a family. Write your own script using a favorite story or fairy tale. …
Drama Smart: Putting Dress Up and the Family Room to Good Use
May 24, 2010 in 5-8 Beginning Readers, 9-12 Tween, Drama Smart, Literacy, Literacy Tips, Play Smart, Tip of the Week
Want to introduce your primary school children to the theater? Just look in the back of a closet or the nearest dress up box, toss in a bit of imagination, and voila! You have the makings for a good play. All …
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