Alabama K–6 theatre standards

Identify similarities between a story and their own experiences in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Identify similarities between themselves and characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Identify ways that stories are similar to or different from one another in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Transition between imagination and reality in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Use non-representational materials to create props, puppets, and costume pieces for dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Participate in dramatic play or a guided drama experience alone and with peers.

Express original ideas in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Apply teacher feedback in refining their musical ideas.

Identify characters and setting in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Identify and explain the fundamental elements of voice and sound in dramatic play and guided drama experiences.

Recognize and experiment with various technical elements in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Use voice and sounds in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Recall and express an emotional response in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Explore and identify preferences in dramatic play, a guided experience, or a theatre performance.

Name and describe characters and settings in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Explore ways to make personal artistic choices independently and with others in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Identify characters’ emotions in a guided drama experience and relate those emotions to personal experience.

Apply skills and knowledge from different art forms, content areas, and cultures in a guided drama experience.

Identify similarities and differences among stories from their own community in a guided drama experience.

Collaboratively create a short scene based on a fictional source in a guided drama experience.

Propose choices that characters could make in a guided drama experience.

Collaborate with peers to design costumes and props in a guided drama experience.

Recognize and use gestures and movement to create or retell a story in a guided drama experience.

Improvise solo and group communication in a guided drama experience.

Contribute ideas to a group in a guided drama experience.

Contribute to the adaptation of the plot in a guided drama experience.

Identify similarities and differences in sounds and movements during a guided drama experience.

Collaborate to interpret multiple representations from a single object in a guided drama experience.

Describe a character's actions and dialogue in a guided drama experience.

Use body positions, facial expressions, gestures, and voice to communicate a story’s character traits and emotions through a guided drama experience.

Explain why physical movement is fundamental to drama experiences.

Identify and use technical elements in a guided drama experience.

Use movement and gestures to communicate emotions in a guided drama experience.

Demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette in response to a performance.

Recall and compare choices made in a guided drama experience.

Explain preferences and emotions in a guided drama experience or theatre performance.

Identify causes of characters’ actions in a guided drama experience.

Explain or use text and pictures to show how their own emotions and choices compare to the emotions and choices of characters in a guided drama experience.

Investigate and discuss how the artistic ideas of peers combine to create a guided drama experience.

Identify and describe props and costumes that might be used in a guided drama experience.

Compare and contrast the actions of various characters in a guided drama experience.

Relate characters’ experiences to their own experiences in a guided drama experience.

Utilize problem-solving techniques from different art forms or content areas in a guided drama experience.

Identify similarities and differences among stories from multiple cultures in historical time frames in a guided drama experience.

Collaboratively create a short scene based on a non-fiction source in a guided drama experience.

Propose new details to plot and story in a guided drama experience.

Collaborate with peers to design scenery in a guided drama experience.

Apply the elements of voice and sound to create or retell a story in guided drama experiences.

Collaborate with peers to devise meaningful dialogue in a guided drama experience.

Contribute ideas to group decisions about ways to advance a story in a guided drama experience.

Contribute to the adaptation of dialogue in a guided drama experience.

Use and adapt sounds and movements in a guided drama experience.

Individually generate and describe multiple representations of a single object in a guided drama experience.

Interpret story elements in a guided drama experience.

Alter voice and body to expand and articulate specific details of a character in a guided drama experience.

Demonstrate the relationship between the body, voice, and mind in a guided drama experience.

Utilize technical elements to enhance a guided drama experience.

Contribute ideas to a group drama experience and discuss them informally with other participants.

Identify and discuss artistic choices being made in a guided drama experience.

Explain how personal preferences and emotions affect an observer's response in a guided drama experience or theatre performance.

Identify causes and consequences of a character's actions in a guided drama experience.

Explain or use text and pictures to show how others' emotions and choices may compare to the emotions and choices of characters in a guided drama experience.

Demonstrate ways to assess peers who are presenting a scene in a guided drama experience.

Use a prop or costume in a guided drama experience to enhance characters, settings, or events.

Describe how characters respond to challenges in a guided drama experience.

Use personal experiences and knowledge to make connections to community and culture in a drama or theatre work.

Identify connections to community, social issues, and other content areas in a drama or theatre work.

Research and report on how stories are adapted from literature for use in drama or theatre works.

Examine and outline how artists have historically presented the same stories using different art forms, genres, or drama or theatre conventions.

Create roles, imagined worlds, and improvised stories in a drama or theatre work.

Articulate ideas for costumes, props, and sets in a drama or theatre work.

Collaboratively determine ways characters might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in a drama or theatre work.

Participate in various methods of investigation to devise and share original ideas for a drama or theatre work.

Compare ideas with those of peers and make selections that will enhance group drama or theatre work.

Collaborate with peers to revise, refine, and adapt ideas to fit the given parameters of a drama or theatre work.

Contribute to physical and vocal exploration in an improvised or scripted drama or theatre work.

Suggest design and technical choices to refine improvised or scripted drama or theatre work.

Apply the elements of dramatic structure to a story to create a drama or theatre work.

Demonstrate how movement and voice are incorporated into drama or theatre work.

Demonstrate a variety of physical, vocal, and emotional/mental exercises that can be used in a group setting for a drama or theatre work.

Identify the basic technical elements that could be used in a drama or theatre work.

Share a small-group drama or theatre work before an audience of peers.

Practice drama or theatre work and share reflections individually and in small groups.

Explain why artistic choices are made in an observed drama or theatre work.

Identify and relate multiple personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama or theatre work.

Discuss multiple ways to develop a character in drama or theatre work, using physical characteristics and choosing props or costumes to reflect appropriate cultural and historical perspectives.

Examine and record connections they make between their own feelings and the emotions shown by a character in a drama or theatre work.

Explain how and why audiences evaluate drama or theatre work.

Analyze technical elements from multiple drama or theatre works.

Evaluate and discuss problems and situations in a drama or theatre work from an audience perspective.

Identify the ways a given drama or theatre work reflects the perspectives of a community or culture.

Incorporate cross-curricular knowledge in reflecting on and responding to community and social issues in a drama or theatre work.

Research and apply cross-cultural and historical approaches to storytelling in a drama or theatre work.

Compare the drama or theatre conventions of a given time period with those of the present.

Articulate the visual details of imagined worlds and improvised stories that support the given circumstances in a drama or theatre work.

Visualize and design technical elements that support the story and given circumstances in a drama or theatre work.

Demonstrate how a character might move to support the story and circumstances in a drama or theatre work.

Collaboratively ask questions about characters and plots to devise original ideas for a drama or theatre work.

Discuss and make group decisions regarding responsibilities involved in presenting a drama or theatre work to peers.

Revise and improve a scripted or improvised drama or theatre work through repetition and collaborative review.

Identify and utilize physical and vocal exercise techniques for an improvised or scripted drama or theatre work, with support.

Collaboratively identify design and technical problems that arise in rehearsal for a drama or theatre work.

Modify the dialogue and action to change the story in an original drama or theatre work.

Make and demonstrate physical choices to develop a character in a drama or theatre work.

Perform selected acting exercises or techniques that can be used in a group setting for a drama or theatre work.

Propose the use of technical elements in a drama or theatre work.

Present drama or theatre work informally to an audience.

Interpret artistic choices made in a drama or theatre work through participation and observation.

Develop personal reflections on artistic choices made in an observed drama or theatre work.

Communicate the impact of multiple personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama or theatre work.

Compare and contrast the qualities of characters in a drama or theatre work, taking note of physical characteristics and prop or costume design choices that reflect cultural or historical perspectives.

Identify and discuss physiological changes connected to emotions.

Develop a plan to evaluate drama or theatre work.

Investigate and explain how technical elements may support a theme or idea in a drama or theatre work.

Observe and record how a character's choices impact an audience's perspective in a drama or theatre work.

Explain how drama and theatre connect individuals to a community or culture.

Examine and express historical, global, and social issues in a drama or theatre work.

Analyze commonalities and differences between stories set in different cultures and historical time periods in preparation for a drama or theatre work.

Identify and apply historical sources that explain drama and theatre terminology and conventions.

Make observations to identify physical qualities that might reveal a character's inner traits in the imagined world of a drama or theatre work.

Propose and illustrate technical design ideas that support the story and given circumstances in a drama or theatre work.

Explain how a character's inner thoughts impact the story and given circumstances in a drama or theatre work.

Devise original ideas for a drama or theatre work that reflect collective inquiry about characters and their circumstances.

Execute defined responsibilities required to present a drama or theatre work informally to an audience.

Review and improve a scripted or improvised drama or theatre work through repetition and self-review.

Use physical and vocal exploration for character development in an improvised or scripted drama or theatre work.

Create innovative solutions to design and technical problems that arise in rehearsal for a drama or theatre work.

Describe the underlying thoughts and emotions that influence dialogue in a drama or theatre work.

Use physical choices to create meaning in a drama or theatre work.

Choose acting exercises that are applicable to a particular drama or theatre work.

Demonstrate the use of technical elements in a drama or theatre work.

Present drama or theatre work to a formal audience.

Explain personal reactions to artistic choices made in a drama or theatre work through participation and observation.

Communicate personal reflections on artistic choices made in an observed drama or theatre work.

Justify responses based on personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama or theatre work.

Explain personal responses to characters based on cultural perspectives when participating in or observing a drama or theatre work.

Demonstrate the effects of emotions on posture, gesture, breathing, and vocal intonation.

Implement a plan to evaluate drama or theatre work.

Discuss how technical elements represent the theme of a drama or theatre work.

Discuss how an audience member’s perspective affects their emotional response to a character’s circumstances.

Explain how the actions and motivations of characters in a drama or theatre work relate to and impact the perspectives of a community or culture.

Identify universal themes or common social issues and express them through a drama or theatre work.

Research, analyze, and discuss different versions of the same drama or theatre story to determine differences and similarities.

Research the setting of a drama or theatre work and utilize the information to make performance and design choices.

Identify and explain possible solutions to staging challenges in a drama or theatre work.

Identify and explain possible solutions to design challenges in a drama or theatre work.

Make and share inferences about a scripted or improvised character, imagining the given circumstances in a drama or theatre work.

Use critical analysis to refine and evolve original ideas and artistic choices in a devised or scripted drama or theatre work.

Contribute ideas and incorporate the ideas of others in preparing or devising a drama or theatre work.

Articulate and discuss choices to refine a devised or scripted drama or theatre work during the rehearsal process.

Identify and rehearse effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama or theatre work.

Analyze and discuss a technical design during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted drama or theatre work.

Identify and discuss the events in a story or script that are essential to the dramatic structure of a drama or theatre work.

Select and interpret physical choices to communicate character in a drama or theatre work.

Explain how acting exercises and techniques can be applied to a drama or theatre work.

Articulate how technical elements are integrated into a drama or theatre work.

Present an informal adaptation of a drama or theatre work for an audience.

Describe and record personal reactions to artistic choices in a drama or theatre work.

Explain how artists make choices based on personal experience in a drama or theatre work.

Identify significant cultural perspectives that may influence the interpretation of a drama or theatre work.

Identify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in or observation of drama or theatre work.

Evaluate drama or theatre work, using evidence and predetermined criteria.

Analyze the production elements used in a drama or theatre work to evaluate aesthetic choices.

Identify a specific audience or purpose for a drama or theatre work.