Building a storying community -- Involving the students in planning for story drama -- Exploring stories through dramatic activities -- Finding dramatic ways for students to retell stories -- Choosing structures for creating drama on the story -- Creating new stories together using drama -- Writing inside and outside the drama experience -- Finding strategies for supporting literacy through drama -- Using students' knowledge and expertise to structure the story drama -- Helping students make art and life connections -- Sharing story dramas as actors and as audience -- Assessing learning from story drama -- Appendix: program assessment in drama -- Appendix: A checklist for assessment growth in and through the Arts in Education.