CI5483
CI 5483 - Critical Literacy, Storytelling, and Creative Drama (3 Cr.)
Curriculum & Instruction (11197)
TCED - College of Education and Human Development
CI 5483 - Critical Literacy, Storytelling, and Creative Drama (3 Cr.)
Course description
This course examines and embodies how storytelling and creative drama can be used as tools to help develop students’ critical literacy and to assist them in becoming more fluent readers and writers. Critical literacy is the focus; theater and storytelling are the vehicles. Key topics to be covered include: 1) A historical background on fairy and folk tales, legends, fables, myths, and the different oral traditions; 2) Tools for developing a critical view of diverse tales; 3) Practical instruction on how to use storytelling and story genres in the classroom to develop critical literacy; 4) Assessing storytelling work in the classroom. Students will meet in the first week at the University to learn tools of the Neighborhood Bridges program and in the second week will practice and observe each other’s teaching with local school classrooms. In the past we have worked with 4th graders and 6th graders, though we will also discuss how course content applies to high school students. The class meets for two intensive weeks in person, however, we additionally assign pre-readings and post-class reflections and papers.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
OPT - Student Option
Lecture
Typically offered term(s)
Every Summer