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Active Learning Through Drama, Podcasting, and Puppetry
Kristin Fontichiaro
Book Code: LU4027
ISBN: 1-59158-402-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-402-5
240 pages, photos; tables
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 3/30/2007
List Price: $35.00 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Intended for elementary and middle school media centers, this resource outlines creative lesson plans and instructions for helping students retell stories through drama, act out historical events and figures, read texts aloud as a group, and create a shadow puppet performance. Book suggestions for each grade level and handouts are provided
    —Reference & Research Book News     August 2007
  • [P]romotes and explains the value of integrated arts instruction in furthering the accomplishment of curricular objectives and fostering student achievement.
    —QED/Heller Report News Alert     March 16, 2007
Description: Contrary to the trend to do away with arts education as an unnecessary expense in schools trying to boost student test scores, this book promotes and explains the value of integrated arts instruction in furthering the accomplishment of curricular objectives and fostering student achievement. Accomplished library media specialist and arts instructor Kristin Fontichiaro discusses how drama, shadow puppetry, and podcasting can be used as tools to meet curriculum objectives in the K-8 media center. By concentrating on the process of creating a piece of drama or puppetry or a podcast, as opposed to the goal of performance, and by infusing the arts with curriculum objectives in story or research, these techniques can intensify a child's learning and provide context for classroom curriculum objectives. A discussion of the affective and academic benefits of this process-based work as well as sample lessons are included. Photographs and examples of student work illustrate the oechniques. Grades K-8.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Drama
  • Chapter 1: The Benefits of Learning Through the Arts
  • Chapter 2: Getting Started: Welcoming Rituals and Actors' Warm-ups (All Grades)
  • Chapter 3: Telling and Retelling Stories Through Drama: Narrative Pantomime and Circle Drama (Preschool and Up)
  • Chapter 4: Animating History: Biography Wax Museum (Grades 3 and Up)
  • Chapter 5: Ideas in Action: Drama Machines (Grades 3 and Up)
  • Chapter 6: "Living Pictures": Tableau (Grades 4 and Up)
  • Chapter 7: Putting It Together: Living Newspapers (Grades 5 and Up)
  • Part II: Working with the Voice
  • Chapter 8: Oral Tapestries: Choral Readings (Grades 2 and Up)
  • Chapter 9: Drama on the Air: Using Podcasting to Create Radio Plays (Grades 3 and Up)
  • Part III: Puppetry
  • Chapter 10: Storytelling with Shadow: Shadow Puppetry (Grades K and Up)
  • Part IV: Advocacy
  • Chapter 11: Advocating for Arts-Infused Curriculum in the Media Center
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Author/Illustrator/Title Index
LC Card Number: 2006036842
LCC Class: LB1537
Dewey Class: 372
PDF Catalogs:
LU School Library Spring 2008.pdf
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