Creative Dramatics in Education

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I used to think creative dramatics was a good way to differentiate instruction for those who learned better through movement and play. After researching and taking the course, I have recognized creative drama and child’s play as much more prominent in today’s curriculum. Creative dramatics can enhance the educational skills a child learns, such as literacy and language arts. It uses many multiple intelligences, it teaches many important skills, and it is also very easy to implement in the classroom and into common core.
According to an article regarding the use of drama and movement to enhance literacy development for English Language Learners, the authors state that kinesthetic activities help young learners to develop decoding skills, fluency, vocabulary, syntactic knowledge, and metacognitive thinking, as well as reading and writing skills, through these explorative activities such as those we find in drama (Rieg & Paquette, pp. 148-154). Language and literacy are one of the first things to develop in a child and are very important to learning and education. If a child can not read, write, or communicate, it makes learning very difficult for a child to learn. Teaching these skills not only through reading, writing, and talking, but also in child’s play and drama, will provide students who may have difficulties (such as ELL’s) to grasp concepts and relationships better. Creative can also enhance creative thinking and writing skills in the classroom (Rieg & Paquette, pp. 148-154). Creative thinking is vital in education and also in life after graduation. Therefore, creative dramatics is a great way to easily enhance the skills needed inside and outside of the classroom.
Creative play supports learning because it is able to i...

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...ch student’s interests and abilities. There are so many different skills and standards teachers need to not only teach, but ensure is learned in today’s schools, and creative drama is a great way to ensure children are being educated and are prepared to live in today’s world. Creative drama allows with ease that children acquire many different skills and I now have a much better outlook and understanding of creative dramatics as a future educator.

Works Cited
“The Advantages of Using Drama as a Method of Education in Elementary Schools”. 1997. Web. 16 June 2014.
Hulse, Erin K. “Creative Drama and Differentiated Instruction”. Web. 16 April 2014.
Rieg, Sue A. & Paquette, Kelli R. “Using Drama and Movement to Enhance English Language Learners’ Literacy Development”. Journal of Instructional Psychology. June 2009. 36:2. P148-154. Web. 16 April 2014.

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