Theatre: Grade K

Analyzing and constructing meaning from theatrical experiences, dramatic literature, and electronic media

Developing scripts through improvisation and other theatrical methods

Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining roles within a variety of situations and environments

Designing and executing artistic and technical elements of theatre

Directing by conceptualizing, organizing, and conducting rehearsals for performance

Researching cultural and historical information to support artistic choices

Integrating various art forms, other content areas, and life experiences, to create theatre

Examining the roles of theatre as a reflection of past and present civilization

Exploring the relevance of theatre to careers

Critiquing various aspects of theatre and other media using appropriate supporting evidence

Engaging actively and appropriately as an audience member in theatre or other media experiences

Identifies simple theater vocabulary

States the difference between pretend and real

Identifies how theatre experiences are like and unlike real life

Identifies dramatic elements including character, setting, problem, plot, resolution, beginning-middle-end

Retells stories

Sequences plot events for dramatizations

Generates original ideas for dramatizations

Uses the playwriting process: pre-write/pre-play event; preparing to write/dramatize; writing/dramatizing story; evaluation, reflection, editing; rewrite/replay dramatization

Uses voice to communicate ideas and emotions

Uses body to communicate ideas and emotions

Uses imagination to create, revise or add to ideas

Collaborates and cooperates in theatre experiences

Demonstrates skills of the mind: imagination, focusing, and concentration.

Assumes roles in a variety of dramatic forms, such as narrated story, pantomime, puppetry and role play

Names the five senses

Identifies and uses personal and partner space; playing space and audience space

Uses simple objects and materials in dramatizations

Uses sound in dramatizations

Follows directions in theatre experiences

Contributes to planning for dramatizations

Listens to others with respect and courtesy

Uses school resources including text, pictures, technology and people to develop dramatizations

Identifies visual art, music, dance, and/or electronic media in dramatizations

Dramatizes life experiences

Describes why people dramatize stories

Identifies theatre experiences in the community

States that people have jobs in theatre

Names actors and acting as a career in theater

Expresses personal preferences about theatre experiences

Describes what is seen, felt, and heard in a theatre experience

Asks questions about what is seen, felt, and heard in a theatre experience

Reflects on theatre experiences using a variety of written, graphic, non-verbal, and oral responses

Participates as audience

Identifies the basic elements of theatre etiquette.