Week 5 Tutorial Task

Activities to encourage
children's aesthetic
responses to drama

Storytelling
Puppets
Reader's
Theater
Creative Drama
Pantomime and
Improvisation
Story
Dramatization

Week 5 ISL
Drama in the Classroom by Carole Cox (pg 157-172)

Puppets

Children are natural puppeteers.

Teachers can collect puppet-making materials
themselves or ask students and parents to do so.
Children don't need patterns to trace around. Give them
freedom to create their own puppets.

Reader's
Theater

Pupils read and interpret literature aloud from scipts

adapted.
E.g: texts of picture books for younger children and novels
for older children.
No special costumes, sets, props, lighting, or music are
required.
can be practiced and performed almost instantly in the
classroom. (Sloyer, 2003)

Creative
Drama

a synthesis of sense training and pantomime and

improvisation.
help individuals become aware of their senses and
encourage creativity and self- confidence through
expressing that awareness.
Key is the concentration ability children develop as they
communicate through non-verbal means -facial
expressions, gestures, and movements.

Pantomime
and
Improvisation

natural extensions of sense training and may also

follow from teachers' observations of children's
spontaneous play
Uses facial expressions, body movements , and
gestures to communicate instead of sounds and words,
and improvisation adds speech to spontaneous
movements and actions.

Story
Dramatization

When children respond to a story through drama portraying the actions as they play the characters - they
are creating a story dramatization.
first, by conducting a directed listening teaching activity
(DLTA) of the classic children's picture book
second, by bringing the story to life with mask making,
mime, dance
finally, the complete story dramatization, which teaches
the literar elements of setting, characters, and sequence
of event/ plot and creating a story map.

Young children enjoy timless tales, eg: "The three billy

goats gruff", "The Three pigs", "The Gingerbread Man"
Preparing the props for the storytelling will effectively
enhance the telling too.

Storytelling
Week 5 ISL