Books about Drama

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Playwriting

Chapman, Gerald. Teaching Young Playwrights.  Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann, 1991.

Korty, Carol.  Writing Your Own Plays, second edition. Creating, Adapting, Improvising. Studio City, CA, 2000.

Sklar, Daniel Judah. Playmaking, Children Writing and Performing Their Own Plays, New York, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1991

Creative Drama

Bernardi, Philip. Improvisation Starters A Collection of 900 Improvisation Situations for the Theater. Cincinnati, Ohio, Betterway Books, 1992.

Collins, Rives and Pamela J. Cooper.  The Power of Story Teaching Through Storytelling, Second Edition, Scottsdale, AZ. Grosuch Scarisbrick Publishers, 1997

Fox, Mem. Teaching Drama to Young Children. Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann,1987.

McCaslin, Nellie. Creative Drama in the Classroom and Beyond, seventh edition. New York, Longman, a division of Addison Wesley, 2000

Peterson, Lenka and O’Connor, Dan.  Kids Take The Stage. New York, Back Stage Books/Watson-Guptill Publications, 1997

Rhod, Michael. Theatre for Community, Conflict & Dialogue The Hope Is Vital Training Manual.  Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Heinemann, 1998

Spolin, Voila. Theater Games for the Classroom:  A Teacher’s Handbook.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1986