Insightful, provocative, and above all else, practical.
—Youth Theatre Journal

Teachers face enormous problems trying to motivate students who don't like to read. In this book, Nancy King shows how storymaking and drama are powerful ways to engage students as they read novels, plays, poetry, and autobiography, and how both students and teachers benefit from educational opportunities based on dialogue rather than lecture.

In Storymaking and Drama teachers will find thoughtful, practical, inventive, and creative ways to explore literature and drama in the classroom. The author has included many stories from around the world to make the book a joy to read and to help stimulate the development of new ideas for classroom educational practice.

Contents:
I: The Importance of "Making" II: Groundwork 1. The Gift of Imagination 2. Nonverbal Communication 3. Knowing How and When to Begin 4. Arranging Space and Time 5. On Working in New Ways 6. Beginning: Issues and Problems 7. Flexible Planning 8. Teacher Participation and Connection to Process 9. Setting Personal and professional Limits 10. Creating and Facilitationg an Effective Learning Envirionment 12. Critical Thinking and Active Learning 13. The Dynamics of Learning 14. Welcoming and Using the Unexpected 15. "Success and Failure:" Reflection and Learning 16. Exploring Issues/Solving Problems 17. Sharing and Showing Work 18. Conflict Resolution 19. Outside Influences III: Sourcework 20. A Way of Thinking 21. The Power of Image-Making 22. Structuring a Class Session 23. Working with Poetry 24. Working with Short Stories 25. Working with Dramatic Literature 26. Working with Novels 27. Working with Autobiography IV: Evaluation 28. Collaborative Learning: an Effective Climate for Evaluation 29. Grades and Grading V: Storymaking and Drama in the Teaching of English as a Second Language VI: Drama in Performance