Early Childhood Units for Drama

• Main Author: DiDominicis, Lynn
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Teacher Created Materials, Inc 1995
• Subjects: Activity Units; Childrens Theater; Class Activities; Creative Dramatics; Drama; Drama in Education; Dramatic Play; Early Childhood Education; Fairy Tales; Learning Activities; Oral Interpretation; Production Techniques; Readers Theater; Resource Materials; Student Participation; Young Children
• ISBN: 1557342079

This book provides suggestions for drama activities and materials based on 14 classic and contemporary fairy tales suitable for both stage and classroom performance. After the introduction (which outlines different ways the stories can used dramatically) and a "Welcome to the Box Office" section, the book provides materials and activities for adaptations of each of 14 stories: "The Teddy Bear's Picnic"; "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"; "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"; "Jack and the Beanstalk"; "The Three Little Pigs"; "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"; "Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose"; "Swimmy"; "The Frog Prince"; "The Red Balloon"; "I Am Flying"; "I Wish I Were a Butterfly"; "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"; and "An American Thanksgiving-A Pageant." Attached are a 13-item technology bibliography listing videos, music recordings, and software CD-ROMS, and a 57-item bibliography of books recommended for the unit, segmented by subject. (CR)