Teaching Artist Residency
Drama/Creative Writing
Anne Chancey Dalton is available for educational drama and/or creative writing residencies. Many of her residencies are cross-curriculum and involve both.
Ms Dalton’s residency work can be adapted to meet specific needs in content and time.
Residencies of 2 or more days offer opportunities for teachers and students to experience a progression of educational drama and/or creative writing activities.
 What is Readers Theatre?
“Readers Theatre is a rehearsed group presentation of a script that is read aloud rather than memorized. Lines are distributed among individuals, pairs, small groups, and the whole group. Its emphasis is on the spoken words, not on staged scenes. Traditionally, Readers Theatre performers hold and read from scripts during performances.
Curriculum-based Readers theatre is one way to merge drama, theatre, writing, reading, speaking, and content learning. It provides a motivating purpose for writing, reading aloud, and retaining information about curriculum content. An entire class can participate simultaneously.” Dramatizing the Content with Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre, Grades 6-12 by Rosalind M. Flynn www.rosalindflynn.com
Curriculum Based Readers Theatre Residency
Grades: 3-12
Curriculum Focus: Any subject
Maximum number of sessions per day: 4
Teachers are selected who are interested in learning the Readers Theatre process and willing to work with Ms. Dalton before, during, and after the classroom sessions. Anne works with the teachers and their students to: write, revise and rehearse a curriculum-based readers theatre script. A minimum of 5 days is required for a group performance.
Ms. Dalton has done Readers Theatre residencies in the following schools:
Carver Middle School, Eutaw, AL
Grades: 6 and 8
Length of residency: 3 days
Disciplines taught: Theatre – Using Readers Theatre
Content area: Language Arts
Brewbaker Intermediate School, Montgomery, AL
Grade: 5
Length of residency: 5 days
Disciplines taught: Theatre
Content area: Math – Using Readers Theatre to Teach Multiplication
Verbena High School, Verbena, AL
Grade: 5
Length of residency: 8 days
Disciplines taught: Theatre – Readers Theatre: Process Skills of Scientific Inquiry
Content area: Cross-curriculum science unit: Solve a Mystery Using Scientific Inquiry
Williams Avenue
Elementary School, Ft. Payne, AL
Grade: 4
Length of residency: 5 days
Disciplines taught: Theatre--Improvisations: Point of View
Readers Theatre: Process Skills of Scientific Inquiry
Content area: Cross-curriculum science unit: Solve a Mysery Using Scientific Inquiry
Readers Theatre scripts created by classes:
Math
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