This resource explores ways for teachers to use drama and story to engage students in learning through all areas of the curriculum. Organized around proven ways to use all types of stories, each chapter feaures effective frameworks and workshop lessons that can be easily implemented in any classroom. In this comprehensive approach to using story and drama with students of all ages, teachers will find: the theoretical background they need to create a powerful story community through drama; practical examples of interactive and cooperative role playing with students; resources for exploring personal response through all the arts; strategies for helping students develop skills as story tellers, story builders, and story makers; and innovative ways to incorporate a variety of drama processes--improvising, role playing, mime, storytelling, enacting, playmaking, reading aloud, writing in role, and performing.