ABSTRACT
The story drama process requires role playing strategies. Everyone participates, the children and teachers taking on the roles of a variety of characters. Likely situations are created in which to play out encounters in and around the text, an “imaginary drama world.” Story drama’s reliance on a text allows the teacher to explore with the students the problems and viewpoints inherent in the story. Story drama occurs when the teacher uses the issues, themes, characters, mood, conflict, or spirit of a story as a beginning for dramatic exploration of the meanings of the story”. Unlike discussions of literature, the drama places children’s responses to a story into an active encounter. Through drama work, the students discovered that there are always multiple ways to read and comprehend a text—multiple meanings, texts, and truths are generated as one reads and re-reads. Factual truths are bound by the perspective or consciousness of the reader.
