Target® Story Builders

The Target® Story Builders program is a one-hour play creation workshop that brings theatre to your students and helps develop literacy and communication skills in an artistic environment. During these workshops, your students will turn their classroom into a living theatre, becoming characters in a story of your choosing! Now in our fourth year of growth, we are expanding our program to include 1st through 5th grade classrooms. We are very excited to bring new stories to life in your classroom using sound, movement, dialogue and improvisation. Now offered in English, Spanish or both.

By using the lens of Theatre and Literature, Target® Story Builders reinforces California State Board of Education Content Standards in the fields of English Language Arts, History-Social Science, Mathematics, Physical Education and Visual and Performing Arts. Books also investigate themes relevant to students everywhere such as: courage, telling the truth, bullying, family, friendship and others. All classrooms will also be provided with a supplemental workbook.

To begin the process, look at the literature selection. Completely fill out and send back the registration sheet (PDF) and we will contact you to confirm your scheduling. A Berkeley Rep teaching artist will then come to the class and engage the students in theatrical exercises that explore the story’s themes, characters and environment. Students then collaborate to reenact and perform a brief version of their story in the classroom, as the students themselves become both the audience and the performers.

workshop dates

January 14–March 21, 2008
(past March 21: based on demand or negotiable)

workshop length

1 hour

maximum class size

30 students / 1 teaching artist

workshop costs

One Hour Workshop—$75

Educator Discount—$60 *

Title I Discount—$50

in-class residency

1–2 sessions—$75 each ($60 educator discount *)

3–4 sessions—$60 each ($55 educator discount *)

4 or more sessions—$55 each ($50 educator discount *)

* Must be paid by personal check or credit card for use in educator’s own classroom

For more information about Target® Story Builders, or to schedule a workshop, please e-mail Devon LaBelle or call 510 647–2974.

To access our registration form, click here (PDF).

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All programming subject to change.