| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| What Is Creative Drama? | p. 4 |
| What Activities Are Included in Creative Drama? | p. 5 |
| What Are the Goals of Creative Drama? | p. 5 |
| What Are Some of the Uses of Creative Drama? | p. 14 |
| How Does the Teacher Incorporate Drama into an Already Full Curriculum? | p. 15 |
| Will I Be Able to Do It? | p. 16 |
| For the College Student | p. 17 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 17 |
| Creative Drama Instruction: Some Basics | p. 22 |
| Creative Drama Goals | p. 22 |
| Drama-Theatre Goals | p. 23 |
| Guiding Creative Drama | p. 25 |
| Drama Activity Variables | p. 27 |
| Playing the Material | p. 38 |
| Evaluation and Reflection | p. 42 |
| Replaying | p. 43 |
| For the College Student | p. 45 |
| Working in Groups | p. 47 |
| The Nature of the Classroom Group | p. 47 |
| Positive Classroom Climate | p. 49 |
| Setting Limits | p. 57 |
| Group Dynamics | p. 58 |
| Creative Drama for All Children: Considerations for Children with Special Needs | p. 64 |
| For the College Student | p. 69 |
| Selected Resources to Use with Children | p. 70 |
| Selected Teacher Resource Materials | p. 71 |
| Simple Drama Activities and Games | p. 72 |
| The Goals of Beginning Activities | p. 72 |
| Directed Activities | p. 73 |
| Simple Pantomimes | p. 77 |
| Games | p. 80 |
| Group Management in Larger Areas of Space | p. 84 |
| Simple Creative Movement Activities | p. 89 |
| Activities for Self-Control | p. 92 |
| Quieting Activities | p. 103 |
| For the College Student | p. 103 |
| Literature for Narrative Pantomime: From Solo Activities to Improvised Plays | p. 105 |
| The Value of Narrative Materials | p. 105 |
| The Types of Narrative Pantomime Material | p. 106 |
| General Considerations for Preparing Narrative Pantomimes | p. 107 |
| A Bibliography of Narrative Pantomimes for Solo Playing | p. 112 |
| Narrative Pantomimes for Paired Playing | p. 115 |
| A Bibliography of Narrative Pantomimes for Paired Playing | p. 116 |
| Group Stories into Plays | p. 118 |
| A Bibliography of Narrative Pantomimes for Group Playing | p. 123 |
| For the College Student | p. 129 |
| Writing Narrative Pantomime | p. 130 |
| Focusing on Action | p. 131 |
| Story Framework | p. 135 |
| Writing Original Materials | p. 137 |
| For the College Student | p. 145 |
| Bibliography of Narrative Pantomimes for Additional Curricular Subjects | p. 146 |
| Pantomime Guessing Games | p. 154 |
| Guiding Pantomime Playing | p. 155 |
| Descriptions of Pantomime Games | p. 158 |
| For the College Student | p. 171 |
| Verbal Activities and Improvisation | p. 172 |
| Beginning Verbal Activities | p. 172 |
| Beginning Improvisation | p. 184 |
| For the College Student | p. 199 |
| Improvised Scenes and Stories | p. 200 |
| Steps in the Process of Creative Plot Building | p. 200 |
| Creating and Sharing Improvisations | p. 214 |
| For the College Student | p. 224 |
| Story Dramatization | p. 225 |
| Traditional Story Dramatization | p. 225 |
| Circle Story Dramatization | p. 233 |
| Segmented Story Dramatization | p. 242 |
| For the College Student | p. 255 |
| Story Bibliography | p. 255 |
| Leader-In-Role and Role Drama | p. 265 |
| General Characteristics of Leader-in-Role | p. 266 |
| Role Drama - What Is It? | p. 267 |
| For the College Student | p. 280 |
| Bibliography of Selected Literature for Role Drama | p. 280 |
| Planning Drama Lessons | p. 285 |
| Considering Goals | p. 285 |
| Selecting and Sequencing the Activities | p. 286 |
| Sample Lesson Outlines | p. 287 |
| Evaluation in Creative Drama | p. 295 |
| For the College Student | p. 298 |
| Story and Poetry Anthologies | p. 300 |
| Books for Dramatization | p. 302 |
| Index | p. 307 |
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