Drawing on the work of Vivian Paley, teachers can use story drama to give children multiple experiences with re-representing their ideas in different ways. Story dramas invite children to go through a process of dictating a story, drawing it, and acting it out as a drama. This creates a habit of mind for thinking in multiple ways, which can be carried over into other activities. It's an especially useful tool for children less inclined to draw or dictate their ideas.
Today in Lunch Bunch we introduced story dramas to the children. They had the opportunity to illustrate their story and a teacher wrote the story for them. Next week we will make props, costumes and act out the drama stories that the children wrote today.
A Summer Day
This is a rainbow, the sun and the moon on a hot summer day.
The End
By Sara
Age 4
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