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Download full textRatliff, Gerald Lee – 2000
One of the primary principles of Readers Theater is to "dramatize" literature in classroom performance and to provide a visual and oral stimulus to students who are unaccustomed to using imagination to appreciate literary texts. Readers Theater may be used to enhance the critical study of language; to explore author meaning or point of view; to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Ratliff, Gerald Lee – 1997
Dynamic classroom role-playing is an essential ingredient in interpretation and performance if the student actor is to learn the technical skills of believable characterization. One of the first classroom performance principles in playing the role is for the student actor to read the playscript with a critical eye to grasp the creative suggestions…
Descriptors: Acting, Characterization, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
