Subject: RE: PUPT: PUPT: Re: Writing for puppets
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:07:47 -0400


Dave & All:

Studies have shown that some people learn best by reading, some by listening
and some by writing.  The trick is to figure out what works best for you (or
your child) and go with it.

Brid Fall
Toledo, OH
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Goboff
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Sent: 4/9/02 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: PUPT: PUPT: Re: Writing for puppets

Alice

What you say in your post backs up something that I believe is true, but

have no scientific evidence to prove it.
My thought is this - reading and writing make it more difficult to
memorize.

I don't want to go into personal history here.  I'll just say that I
have a 
child who, for a variety of reasons, learned to read later in life than
do 
most children.  She still struggles with it.  BUT she has the most
amazing 
memory of where things (gifts) come from and 'who said what when'.  She
is 
also able to learn & retain the words to songs very well.

And my little one (age 5.5) has helped me author and perform in 2 shows.

I'm amazed at how fast she is able to pick up the full script and repeat
it 
even a few weeks later, with no rehearsal in-between!  I hope she can
keep 
it up as she learns to read.  (She can even correct my lines, but I've 
explained to her that Daddy is more of a commedia performer and she'll
learn 
about doing that later.  I can't wait to see if she is still able to 
accomplish this feat in the next year or 2.  (I hope she can!)

Just 2 more cents

dave goboff


>From: HobgoblinH-AT-aol.com
>
    snip
>
>To memorize them, I tape them and play them in my car, because I do a
lot 
>of driving. The distinctive voices are on the tape. Music cues are
included 
>as well, for mnemonic purposes. Gradually, after playing them all the
time, 
>I start trying to say the lines before they happen, and feel a thrill
of 
>positive reenforcement  when I get it right.

***** This obviates reading and visual memorization completely. *****

Gradually I can say the whole play right in advance of cue. The rhymes,
of 
course, also help with memorization. I might add that if the whole play
were 
to be sung, that would make it even easier, because remembering a song
is a 
piece of cake to a long poem. But that's for other puppeteers with
better 
singing voices.
>
snip

>My ten cents,
>Alice (Awake now)
>


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