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With more than 50 inquiry-based and child-centered activities and exercises, A Little Drama will help teachers (including those with no theater experience of their own) develop the body, voice, mind, and heart of young children. Use these activities to help children navigate daily transitions, to calm children when it’s time to quiet, and to develop children’s creativity, sense of self, and social-emotional, physical, and literacy skills (and have a lot of fun along the way).

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Filled with easy-to-implement ideas for incorporating drama into early childhood classrooms . . . This book is an excellent resource for both beginning and experienced early childhood educators. --Booklist A substantial and comprehensive addition to the field of theatre pedagogy in the early childhood classroom. Easy-to-use and full of multidisciplinary activities, A Little Drama serves as a valuable reminder that young children learn in different ways, and that play and drama can help to diversify teaching and to meet students' varied learning needs. --Alexander Santiago-Jirau, director of education, New York Theatre Workshop and instructor, Educational Theatre at New York University-Steinhardt A Little Drama is the most comprehensive and thorough book on how to use dramatic activities with young children, that I have ever come across. It is a must-have tool for educators, administrators, parents, or anyone that works with the very young. --James Miles, executive director, Arts Corps & veteran Teaching Artist Lavinia Roberts provides a wealth of well-organized drama activities, especially for busy educators who have not facilitated drama with young children. Teachers may easily choose and integrate any number of brief exercises, including simple yoga poses, that inspire child-centered learning and promote social, emotional, physical, and metacognitive development in their daily plans. --Jeanne Klein, associate professor emerita, University of Kansas

Filled with easy-to-implement ideas for incorporating drama into early childhood classrooms . . . This book is an excellent resource for both beginning and experienced early childhood educators."" --Booklist ""A substantial and comprehensive addition to the field of theatre pedagogy in the early childhood classroom. Easy-to-use and full of multidisciplinary activities, A Little Drama serves as a valuable reminder that young children learn in different ways, and that play and drama can help to diversify teaching and to meet students' varied learning needs."" --Alexander Santiago-Jirau, director of education, New York Theatre Workshop and instructor, Educational Theatre at New York University-Steinhardt ""A Little Drama is the most comprehensive and thorough book on how to use dramatic activities with young children, that I have ever come across. It is a must-have tool for educators, administrators, parents, or anyone that works with the very young."" --James Miles, executive director, Arts Corps & veteran Teaching Artist ""Lavinia Roberts provides a wealth of well-organized drama activities, especially for busy educators who have not facilitated drama with young children. Teachers may easily choose and integrate any number of brief exercises, including simple yoga poses, that inspire child-centered learning and promote social, emotional, physical, and metacognitive development in their daily plans."" --Jeanne Klein, associate professor emerita, University of Kansas

A substantial and comprehensive addition to the field of theatre pedagogy in the early childhood classroom. Easy-to-use and full of multidisciplinary activities, A Little Drama serves as a valuable reminder that young children learn in different ways, and that play and drama can help to diversify teaching and to meet students' varied learning needs. --Alexander Santiago-Jirau, director of education, New York Theatre Workshop and instructor, Educational Theatre at New York University-Steinhardt A Little Drama is the most comprehensive and thorough book on how to use dramatic activities with young children, that I have ever come across. It is a must-have tool for educators, administrators, parents, or anyone that works with the very young. --James Miles, executive director, Arts Corps & veteran Teaching Artist Lavinia Roberts provides a wealth of well-organized drama activities, especially for busy educators who have not facilitated drama with young children. Teachers may easily choose and integrate any number of brief exercises, including simple yoga poses, that inspire child-centered learning and promote social, emotional, physical, and metacognitive development in their daily plans. --Jeanne Klein, associate professor emerita, University of Kansas

Author Information

Lavinia Roberts is a playwright and theater teacher based in Brooklyn. She has published over 30 plays for young people. Her work has been seen in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, London, Bath, and Athens, among other cities. Lavinia received the Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Award at the Castillo Theater in New York City. She has taught theater to all ages (toddlers through adults) in various arts organizations and schools. She currently teaches in New York City at Trinity Church Wall Street and Saint David's School and is a teaching artist with Urban Arts Partnership and Project Art. She has a master's in educational theater for colleges and communities from NYU, and a BFA in fine art from University of Kansas.

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