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Express Yourself, Drama that Promotes Critical Literacy

Express Yourself, Drama that Promotes Critical Literacy. Alli Kratik EDC 448 December 09, 2010. Objectives. Problem: Hidden agenda for low-achieving students Image Theater Examples. Low-Achieving R eaders. To get them to exhibit critical literacy Rarely given the opportunity to do so

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Express Yourself, Drama that Promotes Critical Literacy

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  1. Express Yourself, Drama that Promotes Critical Literacy AlliKratik EDC 448 December 09, 2010

  2. Objectives • Problem: Hidden agenda for low-achieving students • Image Theater • Examples

  3. Low-Achieving Readers • To get them to exhibit critical literacy • Rarely given the opportunity to do so • Accidentally dooming them to a pedagogy of poverty. • Educators need to provide a zone of proximal development - Socially Interactive - encourage problem solving or critical thinking.

  4. Image Theater • Participants create static sculpture of their bodies with the use - sounds - language - movement as - body positions in ways that are often distinct from one's typical repertoire of these actions

  5. Why • This use of drama in the classroom can be shaped into an effective tool for the comprehension of social and personal problems and the search for their solutions by it's use of developmental images that mediate their critical literacy

  6. Examples • English – scene in a book • Science – Life Cycle • Social Studies – American Revolution • Languages – Culture/History

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