Kentucky K–6 theatre standards

With prompting and support, generate and inhabit an imaginary setting through dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support use non- representational materials to create props, puppets and costume pieces in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, express original ideas through collaboration with peers in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, identify characters and setting in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, experiment with character voice and movement in dramatic play and guided drama experiences.

With prompting and support, experiment with various technical elements in dramatic play and guided drama experiences.

With prompting and support, use voice and movement to demonstrate character in a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, express an emotional response to characters in a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, identify preferences in dramatic play, a guided drama experience or age-appropriate theatre performance.

With prompting and support, name and describe characters and settings in dramatic play or a guided drama experience or age-appropriate theatre performance.

With prompting and support, respond to artistic choices by engaging with others in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, identify similarities between characters and oneself in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, identify skills and knowledge from different arts disciplines and content areas in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, explore stories that are different from one another in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, tell a short story through dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With support, imagine and describe new details for a plot and story.

With support, collaborate with peers to design and/or create scenery.

Identify ways in which gestures and movement may be used to create and/or retell a story in guided drama experiences.

With limited prompting and support, contribute to the development of a sequential plot by participating in group decision making in a guided drama experience.

With limited prompting and support, contribute to adapting the plot of a familiar or original story in a guided drama experience.

Collaborate to generate multiple representations of a single object in a guided drama experience.

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

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

Use body, face, gestures and voice to communicate character traits and emotions in a guided drama experience.

With support, develop choices for character voice and movement.

With support, identify various technical elements.

With support, use voice and movement to communicate in a guided drama experience.

With support, identify artistic choices made in a guided drama experience.

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

Identify causes of character actions in a guided drama experience or age-appropriate theatre performance.

Explain how personal emotions and choices compare to those of characters in a guided drama experience or age-appropriate theatre performance.

With support, expand upon the ideas of others in a guided drama experience.

With support, identify props and costumes that might be used in a guided drama experience.

With support, compare the experiences of characters in a guided drama experience.

With support, identify character emotions in a guided drama experience and relate it to personal experience.

With support, discuss skills and knowledge from different arts disciplines and content areas to apply in a guided drama experience.

With support, identify similarities and differences in stories from one's own community in a guided drama experience.

With support, collaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a fictional literary work in a guided drama experience.

Imagine and describe choices that a character could make within a story.

Collaborate with peers to create costumes and props for a character.

Identify ways in which voice and sounds may be used to create and/or retell a story in guided drama experiences.

Create meaningful dialogue through collaboration with peers to advance a story in a guided drama experience.

Contribute to adapting dialogue in a guided drama experience.

Independently generate multiple representations of a single object in a guided drama experience.

Use a variety of sounds and movements in a guided drama experience.

Interpret story elements in a guided drama experience.

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

Experiment with changing voice and movement choices in a variety of guided drama experiences.

Explore staging and the use of space in guided drama experience.

Contribute to a group theatrical experience and informally share with peers.

Identify a variety of artistic choices made in a guided drama experience.

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

Identify causes and consequences of character actions in a guided drama experience or age- appropriate theatre performance.

Explain how the emotions and choices of others compare to those of characters in a guided drama experience or age-appropriate theatre performance.

Apply criteria to collaboratively explore a scene in a guided drama experience.

Describe characters, settings or events in a guided drama experience using a prop or costume.

Describe how characters respond to challenges in a guided drama experience. Artistic choices might include props, costumes or movements.

Compare character and personal experiences in a guided drama experience.

Apply skills and knowledge from different arts disciplines and content areas in a guided drama experience.

Identify similarities and differences in stories from multiple cultures in a guided drama experience.

Collaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a non-fiction literary work in a guided drama experience.

Create and develop roles, imagined worlds and improvised stories.

Imagine and explain ideas for costumes, props and sets for the environment and characters.

Collaborate to determine how characters might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances.

Collaborate in the creation of original characters by investigating existing story elements.

Collaborate with peers to revise ideas to fit the given parameters of a theatrical work.

Make and refine design and technical choices to support an improvised or scripted theatrical work.

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

Apply the elements of Dramatic Structure to a story and create a theatrical work.

Investigate how movement and voice are incorporated into theatrical work.

Collaborate as an ensemble to experiment with voice and movement choices in a theatrical work.

Explore the use of basic technical elements in a theatrical work.

Share reflections individually and in small groups during practice of theatrical work.

Explore why different artistic choices are made in a theatrical work.

Discuss the personal experiences of self and others when participating in or observing a theatrical work.

Discuss technical elements from multiple theatrical works.

Discuss how connections are made between oneself and a character's emotions in a theatrical work.

Investigate how and why groups evaluate theatrical work.

Discuss multiple ways to reflect cultural perspectives using prop and/or costume design choices.

Recognize problems and situations in a theatrical work from an audience perspective.

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

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

Explore how stories are adapted from literature to a theatrical work.

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

Describe the visual details of imagined worlds and improvised stories that support given circumstances.

Visualize and design technical elements that support the story and given circumstances.

Explore how a character might move to support the story and given circumstances.

Collaborate to create an overall vision for a theatrical work based on existing plots and characters.

Identify the responsibilities required to present a theatrical work to peers.

Revise and improve an improvised or scripted theatrical work through repetition and collaborative review.

Collaborate on solutions to design and technical problems that arise in rehearsal for a theatrical work.

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

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

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

Collaborate as an ensemble to integrate voice and movement choices into a theatrical work.

Integrate basic technical elements into a theatrical work.

Share a small group theatrical work with peers as the audience.

Compare artistic choices made in a theatrical work.

Compare the personal experiences of self and others when participating in or observing a theatrical work.

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

Discuss how physiological changes connect to emotions in a theatrical work.

Propose a plan to evaluate theatrical work.

Compare the way prop and/or costume design choices affect the representation of cultural perspectives.

Predict how a character’s choices may impact an audience’s perspective of a theatrical work.

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

Investigate community, historical, global and/or social issues expressed in a theatrical work.

Investigate cross-cultural approaches to storytelling in a theatrical work.

Compare the theatrical conventions of a given time period with those of the present.

Imagine and describe how a character's inner thoughts impact the story and given circumstances.

Propose design ideas that support the story.

Explore physical qualities that might reveal a character's inner traits or behaviors.

Develop an original theatrical work that reflects collective exploration of story elements.

Implement knowledge of defined responsibilities required to informally present a theatrical work to an audience.

Revise and improve an improvised or scripted theatrical work through repetition and self- review.

Create innovative solutions to design and technical problems that arise in rehearsal for a scripted theatrical work.

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.

Use physical choices to create meaning in a theatrical work.

As an ensemble, experiment with acting exercises that can enhance theatrical work.

Use technical elements to enhance a theatrical work.

Present a theatrical work informally to an audience.

Identify and explain personal reactions to artistic choices made in a theatrical work.

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

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

Investigate the effects of emotions on physiological changes in a theatrical work.

Develop and implement a plan to evaluate theatrical work.

Justify how prop and/or costume design choices are used to reflect cultural perspectives.

Analyze how a character’s circumstances impact an audience’s perspective in a theatrical work.

Investigate how theatre connects community, culture and self.

Respond to community, historical, global and/or social issues through a theatrical work.

Compare stories set in different cultures in preparation for a theatrical work.

Discuss historical sources that explain theatrical conventions and terminology.

Identify staging needs within a theatrical work.

Identify design needs within a theatrical work.

Identify scripted and/or improvised character objectives within their given circumstances.

Use critical analysis to revise an existing devised or original scripted theatrical work.

Collaborate to prepare or devise a theatrical work.

Articulate and examine artistic choices through rehearsal.

Implement a planned technical design during the rehearsal process.

Identify effective physical and vocal traits for characters.

Identify the essential events in a story or script that make up its Dramatic Structure.

Experiment with various physical choices to communicate character.

Identify how acting techniques and exercises can be applied to a rehearsal process.

Evaluate how technical elements are integrated into a theatrical work.

Select and explore a theatrical work that will be shared with an informal audience.

Justify personal reactions to artistic choices in a theatrical work.

Describe how artistic choices are made based on personal experience in theatrical work.

Discuss the aesthetics of the production elements in a theatrical work.

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

Evaluate a theatrical work using supporting evidence and criteria.

Discuss cultural perspectives that may influence the evaluation of a theatrical work.

Identify a specific audience or purpose for a theatrical work.

Explore how perspectives of a community or culture impact theatrical work.

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

Examine the story elements of a theatrical work and compare them to another production of the same story.

Examine artifacts from the time and place of a theatrical work to better understand performance and design choices.