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Rebekah Carlile is using her playwriting program with patients at Cook Children's Hospital.
Everyone has a story to tell. And while translating that story into narrative and committing it to paper is no small task, it’s a crucial thing for children to learn. A new intervention developed by education master’s student Rebekah Carlile uses playwriting as a curricular vehicle to teach these important skills.
“In writing a play, children are actively trying to make sense of something that is personally important,” she says. “They are motivated to write well so their stories will be understood.”
During Carlile’s 10-week intervention—which is being piloted at Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth—children work in groups and get feedback from their peers, who read each other’s plays out loud. This type of performative feedback, Carlile says, is unique to playwriting and integral to the teachings of UT Arlington’s Southwest Center for Mind, Brain, and Education program.
As she continues refining her playwriting program, Carlile plans to study its usefulness for other student populations and explore its effects on pragmatic language skills.
“Narrative language skills are linked to academic success in a wide range of disciplines, including reading comprehension, writing, and even math,” she says. “If this playwriting intervention can positively impact narrative language skills, it’s possible that other academic areas would improve as well.”
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