Keep Calm and Do Drama

I was thinking about drama mostly because I love the BBC radio plays and dramas that are broadcast in Britain (and here via the web) and how voice is so important to drama.  Which reminded me of the presentation Sandra Huggett (who also happens to be my AFL mentor) did for our class last year where she talked about oral language and how to encourage kids to use oral language.

Oral language instruction (which sounds way more formal than it is) covers PLOs in Drama (for example Grade One B1: It is expected that students will use voice to explore a range of ideas and feelings) and Language Arts (all of the A PLOs are about Oral Language).  If we think of this in terms of choral reading, ("now we are going to read this like a tiny mouse, how would that sound?" or "now we are going to read this as if we are very, very tired, how would that sound?") we've got something great and easy to do.  I love the idea of playing with language and I really like incorporating drama into my Language Arts.