Assembling Improv and Collaborative Story Building in Language Arts Class

Autor/inn/en	Lenters, Kimberly; Smith, Cameron
Titel	Assembling Improv and Collaborative Story Building in Language Arts Class
Quelle	In: Reading Teacher, 72 (2018) 2, S.179-189 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-0561
DOI	10.1002/trtr.1689
Schlagwörter	Language Arts; Cooperative Learning; Story Telling; Creative Activities; Humor; Popular Culture; Multimedia Instruction; Literacy; Elementary School Teachers; Elementary School Students; Grade 5; Workshops; Oral Language; Writing (Composition) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachkultur; Kooperatives Lernen; Humoristische Darstellung; Popkultur; Multimediales Lernen; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Schreibübung
Abstract	In this article, the authors present a literacy research project in which humor, popular culture, and improvisational comedy (improv) are viewed as curricular resources to engage students' minds "and" bodies in multimodal story building, following a posthuman assemblage theory approach to literacy learning. This approach takes students' learning beyond the skills of the six language arts strands to consider how affect, gesture, space, time, and improvisation work together in story writing. The authors invited improv artist Ben Cannon to work in collaboration with two fifth-grade classroom teachers, their 50 students, and the research team to develop a children's comedy composing workshop. Over the course of two weeks, half-day workshops employed improv techniques and related activities for composing comedic characters and collaborative comedic stories. In this article, the authors share some of the activities and what they learned about students' oral and written story-building processes. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01