The teaching of performing arts has often mystified teachers and daycare providers. This book is ideal to help them overcome their hesitations and begin teaching the performing arts in their K-3 classrooms. Written by a teacher with over 25 years of experience, this book is chock-full of activities that will help readers incorporate theater arts and creative drama in their classrooms - from puppetry to play attendance. Includes over 20 sample lesson plans! K-3 teachers, daycare providers, and after-school program facilitators.

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, p, e, i, t.

Grade level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, e, i, t.

Encouraging both teacher and student imagination and expression, the seventh edition of this classic text helps future teachers integrate drama into elementary school classrooms and introduces students to a variety of genres and strategies, including mime, play structure, improvisation, and using drama the special education curriculum. Unlike other texts, McCaslin focuses on drama as an art form as well as a teaching tool. The seventh edition features broader coverage of middle school, high school, and adult learners.

"Drama in the Classroom" is a teaching tool that helps young people discover their own unique qualities and, at the same time, appreciate the talents and needs of others. This book offers seventy-nine lessons designed to enable anyone working with children to stimulate creativity, enhance learning, and foster cooperation, self-control and confidence. Question-and-answer help for using the book, goals, activities, step-by-step procedures, and evaluations are included.

Contains exercises in creative dramatics that help children explore their imaginations, overcome shyness, improve listening skills, build self-esteem, increase concentration, gain confidence, and express -- and control -- emotion. Includes extension activities correlating with writing, art, social studies, and science.

This book pertains to several aspects of drama such as understanding, inspiration, activities, poetry, plays, stories, etc.