Dramatics

A Drama Resource for Primary Teachers

by Hazel Edwards & Goldie Alexander
available March 2009
Teaching Solutions

A revised edition of The Primary Drama Resource Book, providing teachers with a multitude of drama activities suitable for middle and upper primary students (years 3—6/7). Photocopiable.

Features

• Includes an interesting range of material, such as choral scripts, multi-age 'buddy' scripts and community festivals
• Deals with important issues such as bullying, making it a particularly useful resource for schools
• The activities are designed to incorporate a variety of key learning areas, using drama as a vehicle for research
• Aims to foster creative collaboration, team-building and negotiation
• Fosters the idea of learning by doing
• Activities include creating catchy titles, a short play, sample texts, dramatic hints, script writing, improvisation, adaptation of story to script, video and TV show ideas, mime dance and puppet scripts, eventing on site, book and internet collaborations, and multimedia scripts.