To measure the effect of story dramatization on the level of story comprehension an experiment was carried out with 12 children varying in age between 7 and 10 years old. Subjects were split in couples and ordered in a group design, and engaged alternately in two types of activities: listening to and watching dramatized stories. The assessment was based on: oral reproduction of story, answering literal and inferential questions, drawings, and creation of story key-words. The number of disjointed answers was higher in the situation of listening to the story, in comparison to watching it. It is concluded that watching dramatized stories favors better story comprehension of children, in comparison with their performances when only listening to the story.
reading comprehension; story dramatization; teaching resource; visual and sound stimuli
