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Exploring Narrative Elements Through a Drama Exercise

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Using an improv exercise as a framework to practice the parts of a story gets ideas flowing for students—and helps them add structure to their writing.

The fourth graders in Katie Giordano’s class at Arts and Letters United 305 in Brooklyn, New York, play theater games to develop and reinforce their academic work. From morning meetings to warm-ups, brain breaks to academic exercises, these students have done a variety of improvisation activities in a wide range of subjects, including English language arts, math, science and social studies. Today, they began a writing lesson with an improv exercise that helped them explore basic narrative elements, called “Somebody Wanted But So Then.”

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