Tell Me a Story – Dance Me a Dance

Keywords
interpretive dance, descriptive language, kinaesthetic intelligence, literacy, Laban movement analysis, story making

This article was previously published online on the well known children’s literacy website: www.best-childrens-books.com/story-dance.html

Dafna writes ‘Children love to move and can use their kinesthetic intelligence to learn literacy skills. Theme and variation, descriptive language, beginning, middle and end, keeping track, and sequencing are all skills needed to be a good reader, writer, choreographer and improvisational dance maker.’ She describes this as a creative and engaging activity for sustaining children’s interest in stories, whilst activating their embodied imaginations. (pp 31-33)

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