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 (USEO)

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.

• 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)

             www.mosaicacting.com

• 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.