Engaging Aliterate Students: A Literacy/Theatre Project Helps Students Comprehend, Visualize, and Enjoy Literature

摘要: Two diverse groups of urban and suburban adolescent reluctant readers enthusiastically discussed a performance A Wrinkle in Time. For many these students, it was their first experience with the theatre. What even more important than sharing theatrical experience, however, that this time they completed, comprehended, enjoyed book assigned school. The program created those results investigated how collaboration teacher theatre director can address needs to comprehend, visualize, discuss, enjoy literature. significant difference between study studies use drama is creates multisensory, imaginative experiences transport audiences into deeply personal interpretations printed word. By combining reading theatre, students found ways immerse themselves actions, thoughts, dialogue characters, as well settings, sounds, symbols