This classroom tested resource presents the narrative mime approach. As students become personally involved with literature, they also learn to work together to develop confidence, and explore universality of their feelings. Carefully designed for all teachers, regardless of dramatic arts experience, this comprehensive guide contains: 
8 reproducible fables adapted for the classroom, plus 27 more fables with instructions 
Strategies for implementing principles of good acting: believing, control, and voice and movementCritical-thinking activities

Dramatizing Aesops Fables: Creative Scripts for the Elementary Classroom

Thistle, Louise

Smith and Kraus

Dramatizando LA Gallinata Roja

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Empire Pub Service

Dramatizing the Lion and the Mouse: An Aesop Fable to Say and Act

Classics

Literature Dramatization Press

Includes information on the principles of acting, stage, speech, costuming, and music, includes simple scripts for plays based on Mother Goose rhymes, and contains a history of the rhymes and discusses their value as literature

Dramatizing Mother Goose: Introducing Students to Classic Literature Through Drama (Young Actors Series)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Smith & Kraus Pub Inc

Dramatizing Classic Poetry is an ideal way to involve students in classic literature and to integrate dramatization with the study of poems as literature. Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, tihs unique book contains: 
More than 50 classic poems scripted to dramatize in the classroom and onstage. 
Authors included are Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, Christina Rossetti, e. e. cummings, Lewis Carroll, Walt Whitman, and others. 
Costume pieces and rhythm instrument suggestions to involve students completely in the poems and to make the poems fully alive. 
Each poem includes Explanations of Poetic Devices and Topics for Critical Thinking, Writing, and Art for teachers to copy. 
Many ways to dramatize poetry in the classroom and onstage including methods involving the whole class, in pairs, small groups, as traveling troupes, and with English Language Learners. 
A Poetry Performance Script giving all students in a class of thirty-five significant roles by including storytellers, actor-reciters and a sound crew. 
Louise Thistle teaches students of all ages how to dramatize literature. She also gives staff development training. She is an actress and the author of six books, including Dramatizing Mother Goose, and two award-winning plays.

Dramatizing Classic Poetry: For Middle and High School Students (Young Actors Series)

Louise Thistle

Dramatizing Greek Mythology is an ideal way to develop acting and speaking skills and an appreciation of classic literature. Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, the book offers plays suitable for students of all academic backgrounds and English language learners. 
This unique book contains five Greek myths dramatized to give everyone in a class of up to 35 students significant roles and to integrate dramatization with the study of Greek mythology.

Dramatizing Greek Mythology (Young Actor Series)

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

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