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Author Barrs, Myra

Title This book is not about drama ... : it's about new ways to inspire students / Myra Barrs, Bob Barton, David Booth
Published Markham, ON, Canada : Pembroke Publishers Limited, [2012], ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Active and Social Approaches to Literacy -- Part A: Becoming the Story -- Chapter 1 Giving the Imagination Play -- Chapter 2 Talking Their Way into Writing -- Chapter 3 Understanding Character Through Role Play -- Chapter 4 Observing Students Inside the Learning -- Part B: Demonstrations, Strategies, and Texts for Role-Playing -- Chapter 5 Joining in the Learning -- Chapter 6 The Storyteller Arrives -- Chapter 7 Who Will I Be? -- Chapter 8 Mining the Story for Riches -- Chapter 9 Researchers and Role Players -- Chapter 10 Reading Words Aloud -- Chapter 11 Sharing Our Role-Playing Eyewitness Angles -- Appendix A: Games and Activities -- Appendix B: Family Stories for Drama -- Appendix C: Text- "The Dust Bowl" -- Glossary: Overview of Drama Conventions
Summary Recharge literacy in any classroom by giving students opportunities to use storytelling, role playing, and reenactments to interact with the themes, characters, and events in texts
Notes "Editor: Kate Revington"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Role playing.
Drama in education.
Language arts (Elementary) -- Activity programs
Drama in education
Language arts (Elementary) -- Activity programs
Role playing
Form Electronic book
Author Barton, Bob, 1939-
Booth, David
Revington, Kate
ISBN 155138843X
9781551388434