Teacher Resources: Web Guide

Drama

Articles

Creating Drama with Poetry: Teaching English as a Second Language Through Dramatization and Improvisation
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/gaspar01.html“Creating drama with poetry is an exciting language learning experience. The technique employs a multi-sensory approach to language acquisition by involving second language learners physically, emotionally, and cognitively in the language learning process.”

Encouraging English Expression through Script-based Improvisations
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Berlinger-ScriptImprov.html“Dialogues, scenes and plays that approximate real communication provide a dynamic format in which language skills can be introduced and reinforced. Improvisation greatly enhances this approach.”

Using Drama and Theatre To Promote Literacy Development: Some Basic Classroom Applications. ERIC Digest.
http://www.ericdigests.org/2004-1/drama.htm"Although numerous researchers have emphasized the tremendous effect drama and theatre can have on children's cognitive and affective development as well as provided abundant resources for teachers, there still exists a gap between understanding its value and actually applying it."

Lesson Plans, Teaching Tips and Interactive Web Sites

Creative Drama Lesson Plans
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/3765/lessons.html Lesson plans developed for use in a Creative Drama Classroom.

Child Drama
http://www.childdrama.com/ Classroom ideas, theatre games, plays for performance, and book list.

Drama in ELT
http://www.dramainelt.org/ This web site is for all those with an interest in the use of drama in education and theatre techniques in language teaching and learning at primary, secondary and university levels.

The Drama Teacher's Resource Room
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/erachi/ At the Drama Teacher's Resource Room we are striving to make it easier for you to encourage creative and challenging experiences for students in your drama classroom.

The Dramatic Exchange
http://www.dramex.org/ A site where authors post unpublished scripts. Screen carefully for classroom use.

Dramatic Storytelling in the English Classroom
http://www.aspa.asn.au/Projects/english/help.htm Role play, historical theater, and drama ideas.

Exploring Prejudice in Young Adult Literature through Drama and Role Play
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring95/Bontempo.html Young adult literature provides rich literary material for exploring issues and dilemmas of the human experience as perceived by the young.

National Standards for Theater Education
http://www.byu.edu/tma/arts-ed/ Information on Improvisation Situations, Theatre Games and Drama and Theatre Books.

Reader’s Theatre Scripts and Plays
http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm For younger learners (primary grades level).

Reading Lady
http://www.readinglady.com/Readers_Theater/Scripts/scripts.html “Reader’s Theater” scripts for younger learners (primary grades level).

Script Formatting
http://www.humboldt.edu/%7Ejmf2/floss/323rt.script.example.html An example of a tried and true format for creating scripts from existing stories.

TEFL.NET ESL Lesson Plans, Improvisations
http://www.tefl.net/lessonplans/improvisations.htm “Improvisations are not role-plays or simulations (although many of them can be adapted as such). The objective here is total spontaneity and improvisation.“

The Virtual Drama Studio
http://www.thevirtualdramastudio.co.uk/So the aim of this site is to provide a set of resources that will be useful to Drama and English teachers working in schools, both experienced teachers who are on the lookout for new schemes of work and ideas, and those who are just starting in Drama teaching and would appreciate some support.

Directories

Drama Lesson Plans
http://www.theatrelinks.com/lessons.htm

Drama Resources
http://www.teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/Specialist/franceslively/drama.htm

EdHelper, Drama Lessons
http://www.edhelper.com/cat35.htm

Instructional Materials in Drama
http://www.cln.org/subjects/drama_inst.html

New Zealand Association for Drama in Education (NZADIE)
http://www.nzadie.org.nz/resources/teaching.htm

ProTeacher
http://www.proteacher.com/080010.shtml

Teach-Nology, Drama Lesson Plans
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/arts/drama/

Web English Teacher, Reader’s Theatre Resources
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/rt.html

WWW Virtual Library, Theatre and Drama
http://vl-theatre.com/