Drama Teaching Tips

Learning lines for plays or speeches is not always easy - here are twelve tips to help!
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Bring pictures to life through freeze frames, thought tracking and improvisation.
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Using drama to explore bullying issues, giving pupils the opportunity to try out anti-bullying strategies.
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Recommended books on teaching and learning language through drama games and activities.
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Ways to develop fairy and folk tales into rehearsed performances, improvisations, tableaux and oral storytelling.
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Commedia dell’arte began in the marketplaces of 16th-century Europe as improvised theatre which was rude, funny and satirical.
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The ethos of drama in education today owes an enormous debt to the inspiration of one woman - Dorothy Heathcote
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Drama strategies can be used as everyday teaching tools for a wide range of subjects. (Extract from 'Learning Through Drama
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Drama is an effective way of helping students to learn languages including English as a Foreign Language (EFL), as it uses
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Drama can provide children with a meaningful purpose for writing. (Extract from 'Learning Through Drama in the Primary Years').
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14 easy to use drama games and activities suitable for a range of ages and language levels.
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An amazingly fun and easy way to mix up hot-seating and freeze frames to develop characters
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An exciting and completely unpredictable way to quickly develop a scene
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Classroom Management for Drama Lessons The challenge of managing the classroom during drama could be why some teachers are reluctant
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A dozen fabulous ideas and helpful books for teaching drama at key stage one.
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Ten brilliant ideas and worthwhile books for teaching drama at key stage two.
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A playlist of music for drama workshops, rehearsal or performance, including warm-ups, movement pieces and atmospherics.
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These books are ideal for practical ideas to use right away. The first two cover secondary as well as primary
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In this interview Alison Chaplin talks to David Farmer about her plays for children and how she got into writing
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Podcasts and Webinars about drama teaching featuring David Farmer
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An approach to acting that enables performers to explore different levels of tension.
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Recommended shortened versions of Shakespeare playscripts for children and young people to perform.
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Stories can provide the launch pad for a one-off drama session or several weeks of work. Drama strategies can be drawn
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Up to date links with the latest advice on teaching drama and theatre during COVID-19
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These five incredibly simple methods for drama teaching inspired a teacher in New Zealand to bring to life her social
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Drama is a close ally in the development of literacy, especially speaking and listening.
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Lesson plan and original story for KS2 exploring non-verbal communication through gesture and sign language.
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Sparkling short play script of the Brothers Grimm tale for KS2 performance.
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A range of drama and storytelling activities based on a traditional Indian folk-tale for KS1 and reception.
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These days Shakespeare can be taught to children and young people in very exciting and active ways - and there
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Children's natural tendency towards make-believe play can be utilised at school through structured play and drama.
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An interactive technique in which participants become characters and objects in a story as it is told.
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Children's natural tendency towards make-believe play can be utilised at school through structured play and drama.
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