A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension - Strategies And Activities for Classroom Teachers

Informationen zum Autor Lenore Blank Kelner is an actress, director, playwright, educator, drama specialist, and author. For the past twenty-five years she has worked with teachers and students nationwide integrating drama into ongoing classroom instruction. She is the author of The Creative Classroom (Heinemann, 1993) and was the recipient of the 2004 Creative Drama Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. Rosalind M. Flynn is an educational drama consultant who conducts workshops for teachers, artists, and students nationwide. She is also an instructor in the Drama department at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Dr. Flynn's Ph.D. research focuses on the use of drama as a learning method, and her articles on educational drama have been published in many journals. Klappentext A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension makes what is implicit to experienced educational drama specialists explicit for classroom teachers with little to no experience in drama. It discusses four strategies that develop comprehension--story dramatization! character interviews! tableau! and human slide shows--with processes for integrating each drama strategy. It also includes a comprehensive treatment of assessment in both drama and reading comprehension.

Product details

• Authors: Rosalind Flynn, Rosalind M. Flynn, Lenore B Kelner, Lenore B. Kelner, Lenore Blank Kelner, Lenore Blank/ Flynn Kelner
• Publisher: Heinemann Ltd
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 13
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.08.2006
• EAN: 9780325007946
• ISBN: 978-0-325-00794-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology