Browsing by Subject "theatre"

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    Arts for Academic Achievement: A Brief Review of Research on Readers' Theatre and Tableau in Literacy Instruction
    (Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2007-09) Willcutt, Jennifer
    This review of the literature seeks to identify and summarize scientific research on the use and effectiveness of Readers’ Theatre and Tableau in literacy education. These programs integrate theatre activities into the classroom and are intended to enhance literacy skills. This review will also define key terms, address the use of drama techniques in the context of current standards- and evidence-based educational practices and policies, including Reading First, and discuss the nature of the relationship between the use of drama techniques in the classroom and literacy achievement.
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    Arts for Academic Achievement: Integrating Tableau Evaluation Report
    (Center for Applied Research and Educaitonal Improvement, 2009-06) Kundin, Delia; Meath, Judy
    This report focuses on AAA’s efforts to provide professional development opportunities to teachers using a school-based planning approach for integrating Tableau during the 2008-2009 school year. Tableau is a theater arts strategy in which students interpret stories using dramatic techniques. The Arts for Academic Achievement Program (AAA) has incorporated Tableau in Minneapolis Public Schools’ classrooms as a strategy to supplement reading and writing instruction.
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    Critical Literacy in Neighborhood Bridges: An Exploratory Study
    (Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2010-05) Ingram, Debra; Lewis, Cynthia; Erasmus, Yvette; Ewing Flynn, Jill; Janowiec, Abigail
    This report describes and examines the meaning and use of critical literacy in The Children’s Theatre Company’s Neighborhood Bridges (Bridges) program. Critical literacy is an orientation to reading that includes an understanding of how texts (oral stories, books, media) position readers (listeners/viewers), how readers position texts, and how texts are positioned within social, cultural, historical, and political contexts. Critical literacy is central to the philosophy of Bridges, which involves elementary and middle school students in storytelling and creative drama. An important goal of the program is to develop in children the capacity to analyze and challenge dominant social and cultural storylines as they create new storylines through imaginative retellings and reenactments.