This practical book gives you all the ideas you need to make drama a regular and integral part of your schools curriculum, offering detailed suggestions of drama work for ages four to seven. The teaching units are arranged around four strands: drama for literacy; drama and the whole curriculum; drama film, media, and ICT; and drama for performance. The authors provide a wealth of practical activities throughout. Each unit includes:
- explicit links to the Renewed Framework for literacy and the wider curriculum
- a list of resources needed
- clear learning objectives and outcomes
- steps for teaching and learning including how to modify activities to suit your school
- links to writing
- assessment guidance.
Based on the authors experience as teachers and in-service trainers, this book provides a Wide range of ideas and activities for inspiring drama across the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, and is essential reading for all those interested in bringing drama into their school.
| Acknowledgements |
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ix | |
| How to use this book |
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xi | |
| RL Castles |
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1 | |
| RC The cycle shop |
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8 | |
| RF Filming a traditional story |
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15 | |
| RP A festival of nursery rhymes |
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24 | |
| 1L A New Home for a Pirate |
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32 | |
| 1C The Steel Teddy Bear |
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41 | |
| 1F Jim and the Beanstalk |
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48 | |
| 1P The King with Dirty Feet |
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58 | |
| 2L The Lost Happy Endings |
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70 | |
| 2C Light and dark |
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78 | |
| 2F The First Snow of Winter |
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84 | |
| 2P A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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92 | |
| Appendix 1: Drama structures and strategies used throughout the book |
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103 | |
| Appendix 2: Further reading to help develop drama in your school |
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106 | |
| Index |
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107 | |
Miles Tandy and Jo Howell are advisers with Warwickshires Educational Development Service, UK. They have written widely about drama and literacy, and their publications include Creating Writers in the Primary Classroom (Routledge, 2008) and Beginning Drama (Routledge, 2008).
