Description
Book Synopsis'This Primary Drama Handbook offers much more than just a few useful tips on how to use drama in the primary school. It moves way beyond the more well-known basic drama strategies to present comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the role drama can play within the primary curriculum' -
English Drama Media This book helps professionals to understand the importance and potential of drama for learning and offers step by step practical examples of how drama can work in schools across a range of curriculum subjects.
Drama motivates children and is a powerful way of building skills such as speaking and listening, enhancing children's self-esteem, and connecting learning creatively across the curriculum. The book presents information, advice and a range of practical material that helps to explain drama skills and strategies at an introductory level. It also contains a sample drama unit for each year group.
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Trade Review
′This Primary Drama Handbook offers much more than just a few useful tips on how to use drama in the primary school. It moves way beyond the more well-known basic drama strategies to present comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the role drama can play within the primary curriculum′ - English Drama Media
Table of Contents
Drama in Schools - Some Basic Questions Answered Drama and the Curriculum Drama Publications A Time and Place for Drama Planning "Whole Class" Drama A Glossary of Drama Strategies and Conventions The Drama Units Unit 1: Visiting Storyland: Reception and Year 1 Unit 2: Billy′s Bucket: Year 1 Unit 3: The Great Fire of London: Year 2 Unit 4: The Drums of Noto Hanto: Year 3 Unit 5: Environmental Sustainability: Year 4 Unit 6:The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun: Years 4 and 5 Unit 7: Leaving Home: Years 5 and 6 Unit 8: The Listeners: Year 6
