Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Play Acting
iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers. They've found their way into every corner of our lives. Add to that, the pressures of the modern education with standardized tests and crowded classrooms, and it seems that our children have lost the simplicity of childhood. Are our children losing their imagination, too? Carol Bouzoukis gives us just the remedy.

Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Playacting is an easy-to-use guide to creating simple dramas with young children. This innovative "how-to" book is written especially for parents, daycare providers, librarians, educators, and youth leaders who want to not only encourage their child's imagination but enhance their self-esteem and joy of learning. Dr. Bouzoukis recounts nine familiar children's stories for reading aloud and presenting to our children. By following the tips and using the sample questions, anyone can create a story drama in their living room, garage, Sunday school class or community center. Each story includes an analysis that adds insight into the creative process and reminds parents how simple and care-free it is to let our imaginations turn us into wolves, gingerbread boys, trees, and rivers.
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Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Play Acting
iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers. They've found their way into every corner of our lives. Add to that, the pressures of the modern education with standardized tests and crowded classrooms, and it seems that our children have lost the simplicity of childhood. Are our children losing their imagination, too? Carol Bouzoukis gives us just the remedy.

Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Playacting is an easy-to-use guide to creating simple dramas with young children. This innovative "how-to" book is written especially for parents, daycare providers, librarians, educators, and youth leaders who want to not only encourage their child's imagination but enhance their self-esteem and joy of learning. Dr. Bouzoukis recounts nine familiar children's stories for reading aloud and presenting to our children. By following the tips and using the sample questions, anyone can create a story drama in their living room, garage, Sunday school class or community center. Each story includes an analysis that adds insight into the creative process and reminds parents how simple and care-free it is to let our imaginations turn us into wolves, gingerbread boys, trees, and rivers.
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Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Play Acting

Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Play Acting

by Carol E. Bouzoukis
Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Play Acting

Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Play Acting

by Carol E. Bouzoukis

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Overview

iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers. They've found their way into every corner of our lives. Add to that, the pressures of the modern education with standardized tests and crowded classrooms, and it seems that our children have lost the simplicity of childhood. Are our children losing their imagination, too? Carol Bouzoukis gives us just the remedy.

Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Playacting is an easy-to-use guide to creating simple dramas with young children. This innovative "how-to" book is written especially for parents, daycare providers, librarians, educators, and youth leaders who want to not only encourage their child's imagination but enhance their self-esteem and joy of learning. Dr. Bouzoukis recounts nine familiar children's stories for reading aloud and presenting to our children. By following the tips and using the sample questions, anyone can create a story drama in their living room, garage, Sunday school class or community center. Each story includes an analysis that adds insight into the creative process and reminds parents how simple and care-free it is to let our imaginations turn us into wolves, gingerbread boys, trees, and rivers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781442212893
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 11/17/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 26 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Carol E. Bouzoukis is a Child Drama Specialist with twenty-five years of experience encouraging children's creativity. Dr. Bouzoukis holds a Ph.D. from New York University in Educational Theatre and Dramatherapy. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina. She is the Executive Director and Founder of Child Drama Workshops, Ltd., an interactive theatre arts enrichment program for children ages three to nine. She also maintains a private psychotherapy practice, Play Therapy Delaware, specializing in Play Therapy and Dramatherapy for children. Her first book, Pediatric Dramatherapy: They Couldn't Run So They Learned to Fly, earned international recognition.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Maria LaRosa
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Imagination is the Key

Chapter 1: The Story Drama Method
Chapter 2: The Wolf and the Seven Kids
Chapter 3: The Gingerbread Man
Chapter 4: Little Red Riding Hood
Chapter 5: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Chapter 6: Jack and the Beanstalk
Chapter 7: The Lion and the Mouse
Chapter 8: Hansel and Gretel
Chapter 9: The Three Little Pigs
Chapter 10: The Pot That Would Not Stop Boiling
Chapter 11: Imagination: Practice for Living

Appendix A: Suggested Stories for the Story Drama Method
Appendix B: Accessories/Props
Appendix C: Theater Games and Warm-ups
Appendix D: Drama with Special-Needs Children

Bibliography
Further Reading
Index
About the Author
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