Make-Believe Play and Story-Based Drama in Early Childhood
eBook - PDF

Make-Believe Play and Story-Based Drama in Early Childhood

Let's Pretend!

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Make-Believe Play and Story-Based Drama in Early Childhood

Let's Pretend!

About this book

Encouraging imaginative play in the classroom is an effective way to teach young children how to think creatively and interact socially - vital parts of their cognitive, social, and emotional development.

This book presents engaging and practical ways to use drama which will enable young children to develop creative thinking and literacy skills while planning together, making decisions, giving and receiving feedback and working toward a common goal. The reader is guided through introducing and using dramatic play with children, how to integrate drama into everyday classroom activities, and preparing a child-centered story dramatization.

There is a full color, ready-to-use children's storybook included within the book along with instructions on the multiple ways this can be used as a starting point in the classroom.

This is an unbeatable resource for any teacher or trainee teacher wanting to introduce drama into the classroom in a developmentally appropriate way that will benefit all aspects of a child's intellectual and social progression.

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Yes, you can access Make-Believe Play and Story-Based Drama in Early Childhood by Suzanne Handel Mair, Carol Woodard in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Developmental Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Make-Believe Play and Story-Based Drama in Early Childhood: Let's Pretend!
  2. Part I Story Pretending and Drama
  3. Part 2 Including Story Pretending and Drama in the Classroom: Lights, Camera, Action!
  4. Part 3: The Performance: Curtain Going Up!
  5. Appendix A: Home-Based Literacy Activities
  6. Appendix B: Child-Size Puppet Outlines
  7. Bibliography
  8. Index