1. Creating meaning in education
Literacy and Drama
Creating meaning in education

2. Drama: The Missing Link in Language Arts
Drama activities can help build vocabulary skills, improve reading comprehension, and expand writing techniques.
Drama Strategies such as expressive movement and character development can transform language arts into an active, student-centered explorations of story elements.
Drama encourages student engagement with text which in turn enhances literacy.

3. Drama: A Natural Learning Process
Children are active learners.
Using the arts to stimulate proactive learning is logical.
Dramatic activities require children to look, move, listen, touch, and manipulate which demands critical thinking.
Children feel free to express themselves through the art forms.

4. Why Integrate The Arts? In her book Creating Meaning Through Literature and the Arts, Claudia Cornett gives the following reasons why the arts should be integrated across the curriculum
The arts are fundamental to all cultures and time periods.
The arts were the first and remain the primary forms of human communication.
The arts develop the brain and give students the chance to “be smart in different ways”.
There is a strong positive relationship between the arts and academic success.
The arts are avenues of achievement for students who might otherwise not be successful.
The arts develop cooperation, perseverance, self-regulation, discipline, and the value for hard work-important skills for personal life.
The arts focus on alternative forms of assessment and evaluation.