Story Drama Suite

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Story Drama Tips & Tricks: Job Fair & Statues!

Using the Book:

The Peddler of Puddles
By: &
Published by:
2025

Students created their own jobs/roles in nature - we brainstormed types of jobs, and tried to use alliteration to match the role to something in the environment, like our Peddler of Puddles. We then made statues depicting these roles, followed by bringing them to life and introducing ourselves as the jobs we took on to each other.

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Arts teacher life! Let them play!
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Story Drama Tips and Tricks: Visual Displays! (AKA ARTWORK!)

We Are Definitely Human
By: X. Fang
Publisher: Penguin Random House

WINNER of the Ezra Jack Keats Best New Illustrator Award • An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book

Three aliens crash land onto Earth and meet the best of humanity! Of course they can’t tell anyone they’re aliens, because they are definitely human! They are from… Europe. Thank goodness, they met Mr. Li and his community of wonderful people.

STORY DRAMA EXERCISE:

use artwork to visually immerse your students into a story before you even start to read! I worked with a kindergarten class last week and we created a mural of what the planet looked like that the aliens might have come from. The book does not tell us about the planet, the kids got to use their imaginations and think about what it may look like, and why the aliens might have left. We then hung the mural up on the wall and used it as a destination point when we imagined the aliens flying back home. It was so much fun and their ideas were just flowing! They made up the name of the planet, and added so many wonderful landforms and homes and colours and and and and and….. Kindergarten kids are the absolute best at imagining, I adore them! When kids have ownership over what a picture book setting might look like, they quickly immerse themselves into the story as whole because they built the world!

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🐳 Have you met Ted yet?? He’s a red whale and the main character in my sister, Robyn Gram-Barclay’s award-winning picture book series for ages 3-7!

🏆 Purple Dragonfly Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature
🏆 Story Monsters Approved Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature
🏆 Mom’s Choice Award

There’s an accompanying Story Drama Workshop/Unit Plan that can be purchased & downloaded through my Linktree (link in bio) of “My Good Friend Ted, the Sea-Quel in the Ocean of Colour”

Visit her website www.alittletouchofcolour.com and mine www.storydramasuite.com

Happy !!! Here is a small sampling of books. I have in my classroom that I like to use for story dramas. Lots more at home! Are you an author of one of these books? Let me know! And thank you for your wonderful work!

Don’t forget to register your child for the upcoming Wake Up, Little Pin! Story Drama Suite class!

When: Sunday, April 12th
Time: 1:30-2:30pm
Ages: 7-10
Where:Chickadeedee Puppet Theatre School
1159 Dundas St. East, Studio 156
Toronto, ON M4M 1R9
(Dundas St. East & Carlaw Ave.) .ca
Pice: PWYC (suggested donation $10)

Register at www.storydramasuite.com or at the Linktree in my bio

Today, I presented my process drama “The Town That Needs Us” at the ECOO (educational computing organization of Ontario) conference “ dream forward, steam ahead!” a few of us were there representing CODE and leading workshops on integrating drama into science and inquiry programming. It was another wonderful day and it’s always a privilege to work with educators who may not have considered the benefits of the arts in their science and math pedagogy before this experience, and now are open to teaching in different ways! It is beneficial to have a variety of teaching strategies and access points for your students in your back pocket.