DIVERSIFYING DRAMA STRATEGIES

#1 START SIMPLE AND ADD: SPACE WALK

• Movement break
• Team builder
• SSR Summaries
• Showing vs. telling

STRATEGY PROGRESSION: ZIP ZAP ZOP

• Game/ Brain break
• Nouns/verbs, etc.
• Subject verb agreement
• Supporting details

#2 BE SELECTIVE: MODIFYING TEXTS

• Maintain narrative arc
• Close reading excerpts of original text
• Critical moments, famous lines, soliloquies
• Don't be afraid to use lower lexile text
• Cut the original text!

#3 FRONTLOADING

• Background Knowledge
• Summaries
• Vocabulary
• Guided questions
• Constant checks for understanding

#4 MAKE IT STRUCTURED

• Offer clear explicit steps
• Chunk it into chewable parts
• Model it if it's not routine
• Constantly check in
• Time limits (less is more)

UNROUND ROBIN

• Started with poems
• Whole/ half class activity
• Selective scenes from play
• Heterogeneous pairing
• Rereading

INTRODUCING TABLEAU

• Emotional intense scene
• Familiarity with text/characters
• Specific assigned roles + rereading
• Stop & jot: thoughts & feelings
• 3 main questions of focus