Arizona K–6 theatre standards

With prompting and support, retell a personal experience in a guided theatrical experience (e.g. process drama, creative drama, story drama)

With prompting and support, identify skills and knowledge from personal experiences in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, identify stories that are different from one another in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, tell a short story in dramatic in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, transition between imagination and reality to invent and inhabit an imaginary elsewhere in a guided theatrical place (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, interact with nonrepresentational materials such as, puppets, and costume pieces for a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, interact with peers and contribute to a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, express original ideas in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., creative drama, process drama, story drama).

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Using guided dramatic play, include sounds in a theatrical experience.

Identify single objects used in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., sun/circle, bus/rectangle).

With prompting and support, identify characters and setting in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Use body and voice to communicate character traits and emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, demonstrate physical movement in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, demonstrate the use of with various technical elements in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, perform in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, express an emotional response to characters in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, identify setting in dramatic play, a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, name and describe settings in dramatic a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, name and describe characters in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, actively engage with others in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Use imagination to transform objects

Name and describe experiences and feelings of characters in a guided theatrical experience

With prompting and support identify between characters and oneself in dramatic play or a guided theatrical experience (e.g. process drama, creative drama, story drama)

Select from different art forms and content areas to apply in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify similarities and differences in stories from one's own community in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a fictional literary source in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Propose potential character choices in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate with peers about which costumes and props to use in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify ways in which gestures and movement create or retell a story in guided theatrical experiences (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Describe and contribute to the development of a sequential plot in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Participate in group decision making to create a theatrical work (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate in the adaptation of the plot in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify similarities and differences in sounds and movements in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Discuss multiple representations of a single object in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Describe a character's actions and dialogue in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Use movement, facial expressions, gestures, and voice to communicate character traits and emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, demonstrate physical movement in a guided theatrical experiences (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, identify technical elements that can be used in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, perform in dramatic play or a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Recall choices made in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Describe emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, name and describe details in settings in a dramatic play or a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, or creative drama).

Use text and draw pictures to describe personal emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Build on others' ideas in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify props and costumes that might be used in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Compare and contrast the experiences of characters in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Relate character experiences to personal experiences in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Apply skills and knowledge from different art forms and content areas in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify similarities and differences in stories from multiple cultures in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a non-fiction literary source in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Propose potential new details to plot and story in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate with peers to discuss scenery in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify ways in which voice and sounds create or retell a story in guided theatrical experiences (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate with peers to devise meaningful dialogue in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Contribute ideas and make decisions as a group to advance a story in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate in the adaptation of dialogue in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Adapt and use sounds and movements in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Suggest multiple representations of a single object in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Interpret story elements in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Alter voice and body to expand and articulate nuances of a character in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Participate in a variety of physical, vocal, and cognitive exercises that can be used in a group setting for a theatrical work.

Identify the basic technical elements that can be used in a theatrical work.

With prompting and support, use voice and sound in dramatic play or a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify when artistic choices are made in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Demonstrate personal experiences in a theatrical work (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, name and describe details in multiple settings in a dramatic play or a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, or creative drama.)

Use text and draw pictures to describe others' emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate on a scene in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Use a prop or costume in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama) to describe characters, settings, or events.

Describe how characters respond to challenges in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Use personal experiences and knowledge to make connections to community and culture in a theatrical work.

Identify connections to community, social issues and other content areas in theatrical work.

Explore how stories are adapted from literature to theatrical work.

Examine how artists have historically presented the same stories using different art forms, genres, or theatrical conventions.

Create roles, imagined worlds and improvised stories in a theatrical work.

Visual and devise ideas for costumes, props and sets for the environment and characters in a theatrical work.

Collaborate to determine how characters move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in theatrical work.

Participate in methods of investigation to devise original ideas for a theatrical work.

Compare ideas with peers and make selections that will enhance and deepen group theatrical work.

Collaborate with peers to revise, refine, and adapt ideas to fit the given guidelines of a theatrical work.

Participate and contribute to physical and vocal exploration in an improvised or scripted theatrical work.

Collaboratively create multiple representations of single/multiple object(s) in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Explain the elements of dramatic structure in a story to create a theatrical work.

Apply movement and voice in a theatrical work.

Demonstrate the relationship between and among body, voice, and mind in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Discuss technical elements in a guided theatrical work (e.g. process drama, story drama, creative drama).

With prompting and support, use voice and sound in dramatic play or a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Discuss why artistic choices are made in a theatrical work.

Describe personal reactions and emotions to events presented in a guided theatrical experience (e.g. process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Express multiple ways to develop a character using props or costumes that reflect cultural perspectives in theatrical work.

Describe connections made between personal emotions and a character's emotions in theatrical work.

Explain how to evaluate a theatrical work.

Use props and costumes to enhance a theatrical work.

Identify a specific audience or purpose in a theatrical work.

Explain how a theatrical work connects oneself to a community or culture.

Respond to community and social issues and incorporate other content areas in theatrical work.

Investigate cross-cultural approaches to storytelling in theatrical work.

Compare the

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

Invent and design technical elements that support the story and given circumstances in a theatrical work.

Imagine how a character moves and speaks to support the story and given circumstances in a theatrical work.

Collaborate to devise original ideas for a theatrical work by asking questions about characters and plots.

Make and discuss group decisions and identify responsibilities required to present a theatrical work to peers.

Discuss and revise an improvised or scripted theatrical work through repetition and collaborative review.

Develop physical and vocal exercise techniques for an improvised or scripted theatrical work.

Collaborate on solutions to technical issues that arise in rehearsal for a theatrical work.

Modify the dialogue and action to change the story in a theatrical work.

Discuss physical choices to develop a character in a theatrical work.

Participate in a variety of acting exercises and techniques.

Propose the use of technical elements in a theatrical work.

With prompting and support, use voice and sound in dramatic play or a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify artistic choices made in a theatrical work through participation and observation.

Compare and contrast multiple personal experiences when participating in or observing a theatrical work.

Demonstrate the physical characteristics and environment of characters in a theatrical work.

Identify and discuss psychological changes connected to character's emotions in theatrical work.

With specific criteria, evaluate character in a theatrical work.

Explain how technical elements may support a theme or idea in a theatrical work.

Explain how a character's choices impact an audience member's perspective in a theatrical work

Identify the ways a theatrical work reflects the perspectives of a community or culture.

Investigate historical, global and social issues expressed in theatrical work.

Analyze commonalities and differences between stories set in different cultures in preparation for a theatrical work.

Identify historical sources that explain theatrical terminology and conventions.

Identify physical qualities that reveal a character's inner traits in the imagined world of a theatrical work.

Propose design ideas that support the story and given circumstances in a theatrical work.

Depict how a character's inner thoughts impact the story and given circumstances in a theatrical work

Devise original ideas for a theatrical work that reflect collective inquiry about characters and their given circumstances.

Participate in defined responsibilities required to present a theatrical work informally to peers.

Discuss and revise an improvised or scripted theatrical work through repetition and self-reflection.

Create technical elements that occur in rehearsal for a theatrical work. (e.g. lighting, sound, scenery, props, costumes, makeup, media).

Identify effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted theatrical work.

Describe the essential events in a story or script that make up the dramatic structure in a theatrical work.

Experiment with various physical choices to communicate character in a theatrical work.

Participate in a variety of acting exercises and techniques.

Articulate how technical elements are integrated into a theatrical work.

Use movement and gestures to communicate emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g. process drama, story drama, creative drama).

List ways to develop characters using physical characteristics and design choices that reflect cultural perspectives in theatrical work.

Describe how to make choices based on personal experiences in a theatrical work.

Describe how cultural perspectives influence theatrical work.

Discuss and demonstrate the effects of emotions on posture, gesture, breathing, and vocal intonation in a theatrical work.

With specific criteria, evaluate a theatrical work.

Assess how technical elements represent the theme of a theatrical work.

Recognize how a character's circumstances impact an audience member's perspective in a theatrical work.

Examine a community issue through multiple perspectives in a theatrical work.

Identify universal

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

Investigate the time period and place of a theatrical work to understand performance and design choices.

Identify blocking based on a character in a theatrical work.

Identify solutions to design challenges in a theatrical work.

Explore a scripted or improvised character by imagining the given circumstances in a theatrical work.

Analyze original ideas and artistic choices to improve, refine, and evolve a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Contribute ideas and accept and incorporate the ideas of others in preparing or devising theatrical work.

Discuss and identify artistic choices to refine a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Discuss a planned technical design during the rehearsal process for a devised or scripted theatrical work. (e.g. lighting, sound, scenery, props, costumes, makeup, media).

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

Describe the underlying thoughts and emotions that create dialogue and action in a theatrical work.

Demonstrate physical choices to create meaning in a theatrical work.

Participate in a variety of acting exercises and techniques that can be applied for a theatrical work.

Choose a variety of technical elements that can be applied to a design in a theatrical work.

Incorporate voice, movement and gestures to communicate emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g. process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Describe and record personal reactions to artistic choices in a theatrical work.

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

Identify multiple cultural perspectives that influence a theatrical work.

Identify and discuss personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in or observation of theatrical work.

Use supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate a theatrical work.

Use one or more production elements in a theatrical work to assess aesthetic choices.

Evaluate and analyze issues and situations in a theatrical work from an audience member's perspective.