Drama and language games can be easily incorporated into any after school program. Using the skills of strong oral presentation—ideas, organization, sentence fluency, voice and style, word choice, conventions, and grammar—students can develop skills that will serve them for the rest of their lives.  

A language game can be as a simple as "Simon Says."  As students play they must focus on being loud and clear so that they're understood.  Drama games add body movement to students' list of skills.  For example, students choose idioms previously presented during LitART's Daily Tone. Volunteers act out the idiom using a clear set of rules, and the class has to guess which idiom they chose.  The rules for a LitART Pantomime are:

1.  Someone in the class says action to start.

2.  The performer uses three clear actions to demonstrate their idiom (i.e. if they're brushing their teeth they a. screw the cap, b. squeeze the tube, and c. brush their teeth; this make the performance clear to the audience).

3.  When the performer is finished they bow their head.

With strong presentations and performances your after school program will really excel!