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	06-ISBN: 1-885432-35-6

The Drama Discovery Curriculum: Bibliotherapy and Theater Games for Students With Emotional and Behavioral Challenges

Shellie Jacobs Hipsky

Proven turnkey curriculum for helping non-readers become readers
Dramatic and interactive teaching techniques for students with emotional problems
Can be customized for thousands of books and plays aimed at young people

The new book The Drama Discovery Curriculum presents an imaginative, effective, and proven reading curriculum designed to help students with emotional and behavioral problems learn and improve their reading skills.
The book shows how to apply youth-oriented fictional narratives--in this case Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza Series--to develop acting exercises, drama games, and discussions to teach reading and reflecting.
Drama Discovery includes objectives, 48 original activities, strategies and assessments. In this widely adopted curriculum, you will find lesson plans, graphic organizers, worksheets, and adaptations for remediation. There is a direct correlation to standards for all aspects of the curriculum. Students achieve goals through participating in oral reading, improvisational theater games, and acting exercises.
This book will help deprived students learn to communicate and read in a well-organized setting. Moreover, its techniques can be utilized with thousand of literary works, allowing teachers to customize the curriculum and find just the piece that appeals to a given group of students.

Contents (selected)

Introduction to Drama Discovery
Teacher Key
Curriculum Outline
Lesson Plans
Vocabulary
Drama Discovery Activities
Student Sheets
Glossary
Assessment Rubric
Interview Questions
References, Index

ISBN: 1-885432-35-6, 7 x 10, softcover, spiral binding, 2006, $29.95.