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Theatre as a Gateway to Literacy
OverviewThe following overview is a comprehensive and sequential theatre residency that meets Visual and Performing Arts standards in Theatre while also addressing specific grade level English-Language Arts standards. While we are eager to collaborate with teachers to create unique drama curricula, the following blueprint outlines a progressive structure that takes students through a sequential program building dramatic skills from grade to grade. This progression moves from improvisational story dramas into the use of literature-to-life techniques and finally onto the creation of original pieces of theatrical writing by students. STAGE ONE: Kindergarten & First grades
In this residency students participate in interactive story dramas addressing human, social and curricular issues. Teaching artists work in role with students as characters within a story. As the story unfolds from week to week, students actively influence the outcome of the story as they explore multiple possibilities for resolving conflict. The emphasis of this residency is on community building and critical thinking skills. In addition, students are introduced to a basic vocabulary of theatre and the tools of dramatic play. Through this work students acquire tools to cope with conflict and develop their decision-making abilities while exploring consequences of their actions in a fictional context. This part of our programming is based on the process drama work of The Creative Arts Team in New York City.
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