All The Worlds a Stage!

How Drama Aids All

Evidence Behind Strategy

In school, most teacher focus

only on students writing and
reading skills, but drama helps
them to practice their auditory
function
The arts are thinking tools good
for helping childrens mind grow
Studies also show that music,
dance and drama are very
beneficial for the development of
the young mind

Directions

Instruct students to play

the characters of what

you are trying to teach
(rather Romeo and Juliet
in English or positive and
negative matter in
biology)
Improves school
attendance and school
participation

Characteristics

Drama and storytelling are good

ways to expand a childs
vocabulary
Music serves as a language and a
learning vehicle also

This mixed-methods study

was on the correlation
between increase in authentic
instruction, level of learner
engagement, and articulation
by teachers regarding the
participation of their middle
school students in classroom

Drama teaches the students to imagine

Take the Stage

Aids with communication and

expression
More likely to express and retain
classroom knowledge if they can
be involved in the experience
Students can role-play to help
guide the through emotional
trials
ESL, ADHD, LD, OI all benefit

I regard the theatre as the

greatest of all art forms, the
most immediate way in which a
human being can share with
another the sense of what it si to
be a human being.
-Oscar Wilde

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Teachers of Students with MILD General Learning Disabilities. Primary