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Drama Education Resources
Professional Organizations
- American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE)
- Educational Theatre Association (ETA)
- Utah Theatre Association (UTA)
- Youth Theatre at the U (YTU)
Professional Development
- Utah State Office of Education Infinity Workshops (USOE)
- Utah State Office of Education Networking Conference (USOE Conference)
Materials
-
List of picture books to use for Process Drama Activities
- List of Stories for Process Drama Activities compiled by Meighan Smith
- 21 Red-Hot Process Drama Tools
- Auditioning Children Jeremy Whelan Taoe Technique
- Connecting the Dots
- Creating a Process from Text
- Key Elements in Theatre with Vocabulary Definitions
- Theatre Resource Books
- Connections Between Theater and Literacy
- Tips for Creating a Narrative Mime
- Tips for Engaging in Classroon Drama Activities
- Puppetry Tips by Lisa Bean
- Choral Reading by Lisa Bean
Karla Huntsman's handouts from Arts Express 2007
- Arts Express-- Celebrate Connections
- Handout for grades 3 - 6
- Informance Handout
- Animated Voice for grades K - 2
- Handout for K-6 session
Related Reading
- Baldwin, Patrice and Fleming, Kate. Teaching Literacy Through Drama:Creative Approaches.
New York, NY: Routledge Falmer, 2003.
- Basom, Jonas. The Drama Game File. www.DramaEd.net
- Cornett, Claudia E. Creating Meaning Through Literature and the Arts: An Integration Resource
for Classroom Teachers. Columbus, Ohio: Prentice Hall, 2003.
- Heining, Ruth Beall.Improvisation with FavoriteTales: Integrating Drama into the Reading/Writing
Classroom. Portsmouth, NH:Heinemann, 1992.
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McCaslin, Nellie. Creative Drama in the Classroom and Beyond. New York: Longman, Inc., 2000.
- Miller, Carol, and Saxton, Juliana.Into the Story, Portsmouth, NH: Heineman, 2004.
- Neelands, Jonothan and Goode, Tony. Structuring Drama Work: A Handbook of Available Forms
in Theatre and Drama. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Nelson, George. Breaking the Learning Barrier for Underachieving Students: Practical Teaching
Strategies for Dramatic Results. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin Press, 2006.
- O’Neill, Cecily & Lambert, Alan. Drama Structures. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman, 1990.
- Spolin, Viola. Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher’s Handbook. Evanston, Illinois: North-
western University Press, 1986.
- Thistle, Louise. Dramatizing Myths and Tales. Palo Alto, California: Dale Seymour Publications, 1995.
- Whelan, Jeremy. New School Acting II. Whelan International (ISBN 0-7394-0548-9)
- Willis, Barbara Salisbury. Theatre Arts in the Elementary Classroom Kindergarten through
Grade Three. New Orleans, LA: Anchorage Press, Inc., 1996
- Willis, Barbara Salisbury.Theatre Arts in the Elementary Classroom: Grade Four through
Grade Six. New Orleans, LA: Anchorage Press, Inc., 1996.