Creating Drama with 4-7 Year Olds

by Miles Tandy; Jo Howell

• ISBN13: 9780203864357
• ISBN10: 0203864352
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-12-04
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This practical book gives you all the ideas you need to make drama a regular and integral part of your school's 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.

Table of Contents

How to use this book

Unit RL û Castles 11

Unit RC û The Cycle Shop

Unit RF û Filming a Traditional Story

Unit RP û A Festival of Nursery Rhymes

Unit 1L û A New Home for a Pirate

Unit 1C û The Steel Teddy Bear

Unit 1F û Jim and the Beanstalk

Unit 1P û The King with Dirty Feet

Unit 2L û The Lost Happy Endings

Unit 2C û Light and Dark

Unit 2F û The First Snow of Winter

Unit 2P û A Midsummer NightÆs Dream

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

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