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Improv and Ink:
Increasing Individual Writing Fluency with Collaborative Improv
by: Mary DeMichele

This article explores how short form/comedic improvisational theater impacts the development of writing fluency. And after participation in the sequence of improv games researcher know that students showed an increase in their writing fluency. These findings, along with existing literacy research, suggests that improv provided a framework that takes students rapidly through essential literacy processes seen on the emergent level; and that exposure to, and practice of, these processes address deficits in social emotional or literacy skills that are important to writing. The sequence of games used in these studies scaffolded not only improv structures, but also served to scaffold essential literacy skills that enable students to move from collaborative speech to individual writing. This article is hard to understand though, but worth to try in the future.