Jumpstart! Drama: Games and Activities for Ages 5-11
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Description
Jumpstart! Drama contains more than forty engaging, practical, easy-to-do and highly motivating drama activities which will appeal to busy primary teachers who wish to enliven their practice and make more use of drama throughout their teaching. Suitable for use across a variety of subjects and for a wide range of learning styles, the book introduces teaching practitioners to a range of drama conventions and demonstrates how to use them in the primary classroom. This fully updated second edition now reflects picturebooks and novels published in the last five years and is ideal for busy primary teachers who wish to encourage their pupils in drama using texts in a dramatic and motivating way.
Key Features
- The relationship and link between drama and literacy
- Analysing both fiction and non-fiction texts through drama conventions
- Exploring poetry through drama conventions
- Developing role play and learning through imaginary worlds
Additional Information
Organised in five clear parts, this new edition of Jumpstart! Drama covers various topics that enhance the teaching experience.
Specifications
Contents
- Chapter 1: Drama and Literacy
- Introduction
- The creative nature of drama
- Drama within the curriculum
- Drama and speaking and listening
- Drama and writing
- Drama and reading
- Leading drama in the school
- The drama conventions
- Chapter 2: Exploring story through drama conventions
- Thought tracking
- Ritual
- Group sculpture
- Role on the wall
- Role play
- Teacher in Role
- Decision alley
- Forum theatre
- Freeze frames
- Hot seating
- Improvisation
- Sound collage
- Chapter 3: Exploring poetry through drama conventions
- Drama and poetry for Key Stage 1
- Drama and poetry for Key Stage 2
- Chapter 4: Exploring non-fiction through drama conventions
- Drama and recounts
- Drama and explanation
- Drama and instruction
- Drama and persuasive texts
- Drama and reports
- Drama and discussion
- Chapter 5: Developing role play areas
- A lighthouse
- A space ship
- A café
- A circus
- A bakery
- The garden
- At the seaside
- An underwater scene
- A World War II air raid shelter
- A Victorian workhouse