Books about Dramatizing from Amazon.com

Unlike traditional Readers Theatre, which is typically limited to literature-based scripts, Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre (CBRT) allows you and your students to create scripts based on any topic, any work of literature, any textbook, or almost any collection of facts. It can be easily incorporated into your existing curriculum, and because this method emphasizes spoken words and gestures, not staged action, no theatrical training or background is necessary.

Author Rosalind Flynn takes a clear and straightforward approach, and the following special features make this already practical resource even more accessible:

Reproducible sample scripts spanning a range of topics and content areas

Script templates to aid scriptwriting

CBRT in Action sections describing students and teachers firsthand experiences

Easy-to-use instructions on computer formatting scripts

.
Price: $18.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

.
Price: $23.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Dramatizing Greek Mythology is an ideal way to develop acting and speaking skills and an appreciation of classic literature. Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, the book offers plays suitable for students of all academic backgrounds and English language learners.

This unique book contains five Greek myths dramatized to give everyone in a class of up to 35 students significant roles and to integrate dramatization with the study of Greek mythology..
Price: $9.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Dramatizing Mother Goose is an ideal way to introduce and involve people of all ages in classic literature through drama. Written for teachers, parents, and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, this unique book contains:

Seventeen of the most beloved Mother Goose rhymes scripted to dramatize in the classroom and on stage.

An annotated bibliography of Mother Goose collections, scholarly books on Mother Goose, and books on costumes, music, and drama for the classroom.

Dramatize these great imaginative rhymes that poet Walter de la Mare has called "tiny gems of word craftsmanship.".
Price: $14.25 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Ideal for teacher training and college education courses This unique approach to theatre arts draws upon the richness and diversity of five cultures--West African, Mayan, Native American, Japanese, and British--to involve every student in dramatic performance. Uses the narrative mime approach with multicultural myths and tales in groups of up to 35 students.

Features:
>five full-length, reproducible scripts
>warm-up acting exercises
>illustrated dance step instructions
>the mechanics of producing and directing a play
>information on creating your own costumes, sets and musical instruments
>methods for both formal and informal performances
>directions for writing your own script
>playful, dramatic illustrations that set the scene for each culture
>follow-up research questions on culture
>history and theatrical traditions
>and annotated bibliography.
Price: $16.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Dramatizing Classic Poetry is an ideal way to involve students in classic literature and to integrate dramatization with the study of poems as literature Written for teachers and recreational leaders with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, tihs unique book contains:

More than 50 classic poems scripted to dramatize in the classroom and onstage.

Authors included are Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, Christina Rossetti, e. e. cummings, Lewis Carroll, Walt Whitman, and others.

Costume pieces and rhythm instrument suggestions to involve students completely in the poems and to make the poems fully alive.

Each poem includes Explanations of Poetic Devices and Topics for Critical Thinking, Writing, and Art for teachers to copy.

Many ways to dramatize poetry in the classroom and onstage including methods involving the whole class, in pairs, small groups, as traveling troupes, and with English Language Learners.

A Poetry Performance Script giving all students in a class of thirty-five significant roles by including storytellers, actor-reciters and a sound crew.

Louise Thistle teaches students of all ages how to dramatize literature. She also gives staff development training. She is an actress and the author of six books, including Dramatizing Mother Goose, and two award-winning plays..
Price: $19.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]