Dramatic Activities

    As I continue with Me Read?, I needed to pause to copy down some ideas it lists on how to integrate dramatic arts with book reading:

• Role playing: Students take on the roles of characters in a text.
• Dramatic play: Students use a situation from a text as a springboard for creating their own story or drama. 
• Guided imagery: Students are asked to imagine scenes, and subsequently write about or visually depict them.
• Snapshot drama: Students are asked to depict a moment from the text as a “freeze frame”, particularly as a way of describing characters’ expressions and gestures at that moment.
• Analogy drama: Students enact a story from their own lives that parallels a situation in a text.
• “To tell the truth” game: As in the television show of the same name, a fewstudents, each of whom is depicting the same character from a text, are grilled by a panel that ultimately determines which student has most convincingly“become” the character.
• Correspondence: Students write letters, diary entries, and advertisements in the roles of various story characters.
• Missing-scene scripts: Students write scripts for scenes that, while suggested in a text, were not explicitly described.
• Newscast: Students produce a news broadcast based on characters and events in a text

    These were listed in a section discussing how "visualization strategies" like writing, acting, and incorporating music can help keep boys' attention when reading. I majored in theatre as an undergraduate, so I will definitely be using some of these ideas in my library work, and wanted to paste them here for future reference. (I supposed this counts as "processing" for the purposes of my inquiry.)