Drama Teaching Tips

Learning lines for plays or speeches is not always easy - here are twelve tips to help!

Bring pictures to life through freeze frames, thought tracking and improvisation.

Using drama to explore bullying issues, giving pupils the opportunity to try out anti-bullying strategies.

Recommended books on teaching and learning language through drama games and activities.

Ways to develop fairy and folk tales into rehearsed performances, improvisations, tableaux and oral storytelling.

Commedia dell’arte began in the marketplaces of 16th-century Europe as improvised theatre which was rude, funny and satirical.

The ethos of drama in education today owes an enormous debt to the inspiration of one woman - Dorothy Heathcote

Drama strategies can be used as everyday teaching tools for a wide range of subjects. (Extract from 'Learning Through Drama

Drama is an effective way of helping students to learn languages including English as a Foreign Language (EFL), as it uses

Drama can provide children with a meaningful purpose for writing. (Extract from 'Learning Through Drama in the Primary Years').

14 easy to use drama games and activities suitable for a range of ages and language levels.

Review: "...a useful and helpful book for primary practitioners."

An amazingly fun and easy way to mix up hot-seating and freeze frames to develop characters

An exciting and completely unpredictable way to quickly develop a scene

Classroom Management for Drama Lessons The challenge of managing the classroom during drama could be why some teachers are reluctant

A dozen fabulous ideas and helpful books for teaching drama at key stage one.

Ten brilliant ideas and worthwhile books for teaching drama at key stage two.

A playlist of music for drama workshops, rehearsal or performance, including warm-ups, movement pieces and atmospherics.

These books are ideal for practical ideas to use right away. The first two cover secondary as well as primary

Discussion and activities exploring the power of non-verbal communication

In this interview Alison Chaplin talks to David Farmer about her plays for children and how she got into writing

Podcasts and Webinars about drama teaching featuring David Farmer

Drama Resource Website3D Living Pictures

An approach to acting that enables performers to explore different levels of tension.

Recommended shortened versions of Shakespeare playscripts for children and young people to perform.

Stories can provide the launch pad for a one-off drama session or several weeks of work. Drama strategies can be drawn

These five incredibly simple methods for drama teaching inspired a teacher in New Zealand to bring to life her social

Drama is a close ally in the development of literacy, especially speaking and listening.

Lesson plan and original story for KS2 exploring non-verbal communication through gesture and sign language.

Sparkling short play script of the Brothers Grimm tale for KS2 performance.

A range of drama and storytelling activities based on a traditional Indian folk-tale for KS1 and reception.

These days Shakespeare can be taught to children and young people in very exciting and active ways - and there

Children's natural tendency towards make-believe play can be utilised at school through structured play and drama.

An interactive technique in which participants become characters and objects in a story as it is told.

Children's natural tendency towards make-believe play can be utilised at school through structured play and drama.