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Below are quotes about the effectiveness
of using drama in teaching.
| Drama can be
very helpful in helping middle school students learn. It can bring
out shy students and guide confident students to use their talents
skillfully and purposefully. Readers Theater is one particularly
useful strategy to use at this level.
Steps
for Readers Theater |
| Studies have
shown that problem-solving ability, personality or attitude, reading
achievement, and oral language growth can all be altered positively
through creative dramatic activities.
Donoghue
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Play is a zone of proximal
development where children perform as if "a head taller than
themselves." In play, children transform their world by giving
things, places, and people temporary identities, pretending they are
something they are not. Play is an imaginary zone where the world of
meaning is separated from the objects, places, and events that embody it.
Vygotsky
(1967) |
| Many children
make up their first stories in the context of pretend play, creating and
enacting their own dramatic narratives. Expressed in fleeting actions,
these are children's first compositions.
Nelson
and Linek (1999)
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