Creative Drama In The Primary Grades

A useful textbook describing how to use drama in the classroom. Suggestions for different teaching areas are included.

Encouraging both teacher and student imagination and expression, the seventh edition of this classic text helps future teachers integrate drama into elementary school classrooms and introduces students to a variety of genres and strategies, including mime, play structure, improvisation, and using drama the special education curriculum. Unlike other texts, McCaslin focuses on drama as an art form as well as a teaching tool. The seventh edition features broader coverage of middle school, high school, and adult learners.

Explains methods and theories of teaching creative drama and suggestions for activities - Using the imagination - Movement to mime - Improvisation - Puppets and masks - Creating a play - Using a video camera - Performing poetry - Creative drama for a special child - Organising a performance.

The third edition of this popular text uses music and drama to promote learning across the curriculum and with all types of learners. Based on arts integration standards, differentiated instruction techniques, and current research, Creative Drama and Music Methods provides the theory along with applications to help teachers build confidence in using the arts in their daily lesson plans. The text is filled with hands-on activities that guide pre-service and K-8th grade teachers in understanding that integrating drama and music is easy, fun, and vital to fostering a child's desire to explore, imagine, and learn. Examples are provided in each chapter, along with the purpose of the activity and tips for instruction. Rubin and Merrion provide activities that engage elementary and middle school students and range from simple stories and rhythmic activities to story dramatization and composition. All the activities can be comfortably incorporated into the classroom routine and place no additional burdens on the teacher. They are especially useful for educators with valid learning goals but limited experience in creative drama and music. Not typical for creative drama or music texts, Creative Drama and Music Methods takes a process approach to the two arts, placing primary significance on the learner's growth and development.

Grade level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, e, i, t.

This is a fascinating collection of more than thirty exciting plays for children. These plays follow several enjoyable and valuable themes, including friendship, nature, Christmas, etc., that deliver essential moral lessons to children in a fun way. The characters of the plays range from humans to animals and birds, which makes this work perfect to keep the children engaged. Written simply with short dialogues, this work is best to be performed by children at short gatherings for their overall development. The dramas in this collection are Bunny Rabbit, The Little Christmas Tree, A Friendship Declined, The Fox's Plan, and many more.