I was thinking of doing drama and literacy and looking at the impact that drama has on children’s creative/imaginative writing. Do you think this would be okay? I know that there is already a lot about drama and literacy and using stories but the children’s imaginative writing is something which does need to be developed.
I have a short story which I intend to base the drama on which links with their geography topic. I thought that I could get children to begin to write a story/piece of writing from just discussion about the story and then I could do some drama and get them to continue writing their story and see if there is an improvement in their writing. I was also thinking of doing a variety of drama strategies and getting the children to rate these too so that I could see which ones the children enjoyed most or found most useful.
Do you think that this is okay?Would I need to focus on the class as a whole or could I choose to look at just some children’s work and see if there is a difference?
Ingrid writes: I think these are great ideas, especially the student feedback on a range of strategies I would go back to the Teachers TV video and look at how they use drama in geography for ideas What do other people think?
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Hi Amy. Sounds good. For what it's worth I think I would look at the whole class and see what improvment they had made. However I would also 'drill down' (I hate that term!) and see which children made the most progress. Were they the low achievers? I was wondering if there was anyway you could assess what type of learners the children were before the drama session. A questionaire maybe? Then I would be able to see if a kinesthetic approach really did work for those children? Just a thought. Good luck?
ReplyDeleteThank's Kirsty, that is a good idea too, something which I hadn't considered!
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