Why use dramatic play?
What are the building blocks of making meaning? They transform ‘sensory input’ into language through gestures & movement, visuals, sounds and texts to express our experiences, feelings, values and beliefs.
Are We the Dumb Group?
Here I outline my plan to use dramatic play to strengthen the ground work by which ‘weak readers’ feel a sense of achievement by concentrating on learning decoding skills.
Dr Seuss, Reader’s Theatre & Phonemes
What could an infusion of dramatic play add to the learning of foundational literacy skills in lower secondary (Years 7 & 8)? This is what I show through the features I name in the previous blog: Voice & Intention; Speech Sounds (Phonemes), Audiences & Relationships and Reading Fluency.
Awakening brain cells
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.Dr Seuss.
Elements of Drama
Performing arts elements are the dynamic components of live or recorded presentations, centred on time, space, the performer’s body, and the relationship with the audience. Visual arts elements are the static, fundamental building blocks of visual compositions, including line, color, shape, form, space, value, and texture.
Role Play In Teaching & Learning
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
Curriculum Planning, School Community & Live Performances.
Building a vibrant classroom to support an equally dynamic school community requires thoughtful planning. it also need collaborative action between teachers and students. An important part of school-based is when dramatic play is transformed into the school production. However, school performance events can be smaller classroom productions in which ideas, stories and valued beliefs are … Read more