Story Drama

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STORY DRAMA (patterned after Seattle Children's Theatre classes and co-taught by guest instructor Mallory Morris, who was trained by Seattle Children's Theatre in this innovative program)

Great preparation for literacy and problem solving, this class allows the students to explore themes, characters and environments of a different children’s book each day.  Students act-out and perform creatively through the world of the book, but the focus is more on understanding the parts of the book and overcoming obstacles creatively within a group rather than in simple individual performance.  Fantastic for group interaction and socialization while keeping students engaged at solving the conflict presented in the literature.  Students begin to learn literary concepts and are called upon to summarize (in group discussion) the main idea and details from the source material (central idea, narration, how pictures are sources of information that give us clues to words and how they support the text, distinguish between fact and opinion, use of repetition, dialogue, imagery) and draw conclusions for solving the problem.  Great fun and great foundation work for reading.

(Check out this Fall our Saturday Family Story Drama classes that will help parents/grandparents engage children even more in their read aloud time at home!)

Class enrollment -Maximum 10, Minimum 5 
Tuition $90