Check out the sites below for more information on using drama for responding to literature.

Using Creative Dramatics! is a good place to start for ideas about using drama in the literature classroom. It offers a list of links for using drama to teach language arts.
members.tripod.com/~ozpk/0000creatdrama

Acting Up across the Curriculum: Using Creative Dramatics to Explore Adolescent Literature
This ALAN article describing reasons and suggestions for ways to use drama with adolescent literature.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/
spring97/s97-42-Kaplan.html

National Standards for Theater Education provides help with using drama in the classroom. See links Grades 5 - 8 and Unit Lesson Plans for activities to respond to literature.
www.byu.edu/tma/arts-ed/

Exploring Prejudice in Young Adult Literature through Drama and Role Play
Using Role of Thunder, Hear My Cry as a sample this excellent article explores different dramatic techniques to focus on cultural diversity. Using techniques of role play, improvisation, "hot seating," and tableau (freeze frame), students respond to the motives, feelings, and events depicted in several of the novel's scenes.
scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring95/Bontempo.html

Grab Bag Reports describes an oral presentation students give using objects that represent the character, setting, conflict, and plot of the book.
www.teachersdesk.org/grabbag.html

Middle Ideas—Puppet Shows: Animal Farm displays one script by a class of students of a puppet show of Animal Farm.
www.teachnlearn.org/puppet.html

Reader's Theater Free Sample Scripts from Storycart® Press offers free samples of readers' theatrical scripts. These are adaptations of pieces of literature in the form of plays for classroom use. www.storycart.com/scripts_01.php

Monsters and Myths: Scripts is a part of a comprehensive interdisciplinary unit pairing English/Language Arts and the fine arts for intermediate school students. The lessons introduce myths and then ask students to create a script and perform a play.
www.teachnet-lab.org/is24/pshea/monsters.htm

Mrs. Lee's Literary Compendium offers one teacher's creative units and her students' work. To experience samples of literature response using drama, check out a version of Beowulf that uses a Japanese form of story boarding for a dramatic retelling with sound effects.
www.gretchenle.com/beowulf/beoindex.html#anchor1308048

Grades 6 - 8 English/Language Arts WebQuests offers numerous literature-based WebQuests using drama. See the lesson on "Light in the Forest." Here students assume the roles of one of the characters. In "Retelling the Classic Tales," students write a play using their favorite fairy tale.
webquest.sdsu.edu/matrix/6-8-Eng.htm

Responding to Literature: Folk Tale Letter Writing displays the written letters of one class to a character in a folk tale or fairy tale, written in the role of a character from a folk or fairy tale.
www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/folklore/ activity/TC-lett3.html#Writing%20as%20a%20Character