Books provide important lessons, but students often feel wedded to the text. Incorporating props, pantomime and telling rather than reading a story to them can ignite their ambition for wanting to tell their own stories or to add their own creative touches to an existing story. Students will learn to understand acting and literature vocabulary while performing a play using props and pantomime. Students will also get the opportunity to become the narrator, not through memorization, but through working with the images of the plot sheet they complete in the activity process. This gives children the chance to go through the storytelling process without feeling intimidated and learning a cornucopia of terms without realizing they are learning so much. The plot sheet the students complete will guide them to recreating the story through visual images, which eliminates the students from being tied down to something written down on paper.
Students in Sandra Posey's EWS 411: Education, Diversity and the Arts course created storytelling-based lesson plans which integrate multidisciplinary standards. These lesson plans were then implemented at the Boys and Girl's Club of Pomona Valley as a service-learning project. This lesson plan, by Amy Tapia, Margarita Campos, Jennie Ramirez and Rosmary Manyuco
addresses California theater and English Language Arts standards for third grade (with adaptations provided for fourth and sixth).
Campos, Margarita, Rosmary Manyuco, Jennie Ramirez and Amy Tapia. "Plotting the Giving Tree." 4th Grade Lesson Plan, with Adaptations for 4th and 6th Grades.
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