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Dufeu, Bernard – Francais dans le Monde, 1983
Techniques for warming up, establishing group rapport, and setting in motion a role-playing activity are outlined. These involve physical games, communication exercises, oral skill development, and creative thinking. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Expression, Dramatic Play, French
Myhre, Susan M. – Texas Child Care, 1997
Notes that dramatic play is an important outlet for toddlers and small children, and that prop boxes allow children to know their world, role play, and enhance their imaginations. Provides lists for 20 different prop boxes, and information on getting started, collecting, organizing, and using prop boxes. (SD)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Creative Expression, Dramatic Play
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. Div. of Instructional Improvement. – 1978
This elementary and secondary drama guide contains activities to help teachers make drama more creative and more imaginative and rich for students so that they will have a rich appreciation of and taste for the theatre when they grow up. The many and varied activities described are first categorized into three main areas: awareness, interaction,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Body Language, Class Activities, Creative Expression
Download full textBredikyte, Milda – 2000
Dialogical drama with puppets is a specific method of revealing basic cultural values for preschool children. For this study, an interactive performance of a puppet show for young children was videotaped, along with a later performance of the same show by the children. The study compared the techniques used by the adult performers and the children…
Descriptors: Acting, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedChilcoat, George – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1996
Presents a lesson plan explaining and providing procedures for a flippy theater project. Flippy theater is a series of drawings that illustrate a one-act play, presented on large individual sheets or canvas suspended from a pole hung between two uprights or held by two people. Includes an example. (MJP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Expression, Dramatic Play
Han, Eunhye P. – Dimensions, 1991
Reviews the way in which story dramatization stimulates children's development. Discusses five steps in the process of story dramatization. (BB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Activities, Creative Expression, Dramatic Play
Peer reviewedCorbey-Scullen, Lynn; Howell, Jacky – Young Children, 1997
Details four developmentally appropriate dramatic play experiences for integration into the classroom curriculum to extend dramatic play into a classroom play experience. Provides guidance in turning dramatic play into a project, launching the play process, readying the performance, problem solving, playing the play, and enjoying the outcome.…
Descriptors: Acting, Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Creative Expression
Richard, Christian – Francais dans le Monde, 1980
Discusses dramatic activities and techniques useful in the teaching of foreign languages. A distinction is made between theater and other dramatic activities; the latter ranges from reading theater to skits learned by memory. Two examples of activities are suggested for the teacher. (AMH)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Dramatics
Nelson, Carol J.; And Others – 1996
This training manual was designed to provide information and support to Head Start teachers, staff, and parents in the area of emergent literacy. The first section, "What is Emergent Literacy and Why Should We Do It?" addresses the concept of emergent literacy, identifying six key elements: (1) learning to read and write begins very…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Classroom Design
