Types of drama activities

 Drama Activities

Role-plays

It is the imitation of a character in a certain situation that commonly provides a portray of what is happening. Role-play improves verbal communication, fluency, and nonverbal body communication. Moreover, through the structure of drama classes, this type of drama can be used effectively, challenging students to develop a more sensitive understanding and different points of view whilst sharpening their language and movements skills. Also, by adopting different roles, students or participants can step into past or future situations and travel to any place they want with their imagination or getting engaged with the role they wanted to apply. This acts as a strategy that can be utilized in different intellectual levels and can easily be used in the curriculum. 

Improvisation 

Unprepared and unplanned activity encourages the students to spontaneously act in a given situation with no preparation. The main objective of it is to prepare the students for uncertain situations that they may face in the future. Besides, improvisation has relationship with working with something that has not been scripted, but it is made by the participants or students as they go along. This process will encourage students to use their ideas rather than making something already planned. 

Mime 

This kind of drama offers the learners the opportunity of expressing themselves in a non-verbal way. Consequently, they will have to make use of their hands and body movement to convey a message avoiding mentioning a word. Then their classmates have to understand and the information by observing the mime of their peers. This process is important because it is helpful to encourage students to develop their acting and imitation skills in terms of using their body language such as postures, movements, gestures, among others. This process will also help students to understand the importance of communication by using the body to give the audience and idea what is really happening in the play.

Reader’s Theater

Reader’s theater was developed as an efficient and effective way to present literature in dramatic form; it is an interpretive oral activity.Students use their voices, facial expressions, and hand gestures to interpret characters in scripts or stories.Teachers and students may adapt favorite stories for Readers’ Theater through scriptwriting activities. This is a wonderful activity for teachers and caregivers that are looking for ways to add fun, excitement, and meaning to oral reading activities. The very fact that the name contains the word readers indicates that it has a strong focus on the text. Text is the most important concept in Readers Theater. 

Radio Drama

Similar to script reading with the addition of other sound effects; the painting of the mental picture is important.

Performance Poetry

While reading/reciting a poem, the children are encouraged to act out the story from a poem.