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Peer reviewedMiccinati, Jeannette L.; Phelps, Stephen – Reading Teacher, 1980
Argues that various forms of drama such as synchronized movement, pantomime, and improvisation are natural companions to reading instruction. (Author/FL)
Descriptors: Dramatics, Elementary Education, Pantomime, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedLangford, Francis S.; Cope, Ann W. – Clearing House, 1980
Suggests using creative dramatics activities to foster students' skill in sensing, sequencing, expressing, and cooperating. Outlines five creative dramatics exercises suitable for a science, mathematics, art, or English class. (SJL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Pantomime, Secondary Education
Olson, Ernest – Parks and Recreation, 1979
Mime is discussed as a group recreational activity. (JD)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Group Activities, Pantomime, Recreational Activities
Demo, Mary Penasack – Secondary School Theatre Journal, 1980
Highlights four items from the ERIC database in which teacher/directors describe high school theater and classroom productions of Masters'"Spoon River Anthology," Shakespeare, three Black theater dramatizations, and mime. Each offers creative suggestions for imitation. (JMF)
Descriptors: Black Literature, Classroom Techniques, Dramatics, Pantomime
Thistle, Louise – 1993
Designed to be used by teachers with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience and by students with limited English proficiency as well as native English speakers, this clear, simple guide familiarizes teachers and children with classic literature through the narrative-mime approach. The guide contains: (1) eight of Aesop's fables adapted and…
Descriptors: Acting, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Creative Dramatics
Novelly, Maria C. – 1985
Assuming no prior dramatic training or experience with adolescents, this book contains approximately 50 dramatic activities that have been devised, adapted, and used with success with adolescent performers, ages 12 to 15. Not a textbook for performers, the book serves as a resource for drama teachers and coaches, Scout leaders, church youth…
Descriptors: Acting, Adolescents, Class Activities, Creative Dramatics
Peer reviewedFeinberg, Rose M. – Language Arts, 1976
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics, Elementary Education, Imagination
Ratliff, Gerald Lee – Secondary School Theatre Journal, 1981
Provides six classroom exercises to stimulate student awareness of the principles of Readers Theater. Emphasizes the use of scripts and space, flexibility of voice and body, staging, pantomime, and characterization. (PD)
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Oral Interpretation, Pantomime
Peer reviewedSawyer, Walter; Leff, Arlene – Contemporary Education, 1979
Creative dramatics offer the educator a variety of uses in the development of children's language arts proficiency and psychomotor skill level. (LH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Creative Activities, Language Arts, Learning Activities
Download full textHett, Dorothy; Haring, Dana – 1998
This paper presents creative drama activities based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" for use in ninth-grade English classrooms. The activities are divided into sections on improvisation, pantomime, image-making and creative drama, reader's theater, drama scenes, interior monologue, and producing plays. Each section of the paper…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, English Instruction, Grade 9
Dwyer, Evelyn M. – 1990
Creative dramatics (the spontaneous expression of feelings and ideas in an imaginative manner) brightens the reading program and provides teachers and students with both enjoyable and academically profitable experiences. Any reading teacher can comfortably integrate creative dramatics into the basal reading program. Activities such as creating…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Dramatic Play
Bagwell, Mallory M. – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1980
Suggestions for incorporating mime into physical education programs are discussed. Approached from a nonperforming viewpoint, the relationships among mime, movement education, dance, rhythms, body mechanics, art, music, theater, creative dramatics, and language can be blended with perceptual motor development, static and dynamic balance, and…
Descriptors: Dance, Elementary Secondary Education, Movement Education, Pantomime
Instructor, 1979
Suggests a range of activities for prekindergarten and kindergarten children and teachers. (RH)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Concept Formation, Cooking Instruction
Jahanian, Sharon – 1997
This manual is designed to provide creative drama ideas and strategies to teachers of elementary school children with deafness. The purpose of creative drama is to provide opportunities for students to create, share, and explore their ideas. Students also learn to work together, in small and large groups, to portray scenes or stories. The manual…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Creativity, Deafness
Atkinson, Joan – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1989
Classes of 9th-grade and 11th-grade students with deafness read contemporary poetry and created their own poems through writing, sign language, and mime. The poetry of the profoundly deaf students followed the syntax of sign language, while students with residual hearing focused on the elements of form, especially rhyming. (JDD)
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Language Rhythm, Pantomime
