Creating Drama with 7-11 Year Olds: Lesson Ideas to Integrate Drama into the Primary Curriculum [Paperback]

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 7 to 11. 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 Key Stage 2, and is essential reading for all those interested in bringing drama into their school.

1. How to use this book 1  Unit 3L  Gentle Giant  Unit 3C  The Romans  Unit 3F  Dr Xargles Book of Earthlets  Unit 3P  All about our town  Unit 4L  Theseus and the Minotaur  Unit 4C  Change in the Environment  Unit 4F  Space  Unit 4P  The Comedy of Errors  Unit 5L  The Listeners  Unit 5C  Howard Carter and Tutankhamen  Unit 5F  The Invention of Hugo Cabret  Unit 5P  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight  Unit 6L  Leon and the Place Between  Unit 6C  Shipwrecked: making for survival  Unit 6F  Silent Film  Unit 6P  Coriolanus  Appendix 1  Appendix 2