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Bringing Fairy Tales to Life through Drama

Drama Teaching, Features, Primary Drama

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

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101 Drama Games and Activities

Drama Clubs, Drama Games, Language Learning, Primary, Secondary

A collection of highly effective games and exercises suitable for children, young people and adults.

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Drama Play: Bringing Books to Life Through Drama for 4 to 7 Year Olds

Books, Drama Clubs, Early Years, Language Learning, Primary

A series of ready-planned drama lessons based on 12 readily-available books for 4-7 year olds.

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Thought Tracking

Drama Strategies

In Thought-Tracking, characters in a freeze-frame speak thoughts and feelings aloud.

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Storytelling

Drama Strategies

Storytelling is one of the most compelling forms of dramatic and imaginative activity.

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Role Play

Drama Strategies

Role play is the ability to suspend disbelief by stepping into another character’s shoes.

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Mantle of the Expert

Drama Strategies

Mantle of the Expert involves the creation of a fictional world where students assume the roles of experts in a particular field.

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Hot Seating

Drama Strategies

A character is questioned by the group about his or her background, behaviour and motivation.

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The Inspiring Drama Teacher

The Inspiring Drama Teacher

Join The Inspiring Drama Teacher and get access to: Online Course, Monthly Live Zoom Sessions, Marked Assignment and Lesson Plan Vault
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Recent Posts

Learning Your Lines: The Compact Guide By Mark Channon

Using the experience of his acting career, Mark Channon applies Mindfulness and the Memory Palace approach to learning lines for auditions, rapid learning for television shoots, getting off-book in rehearsals and becoming present and truthful in your relationship with other performers.

Hot Spotting

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

Teaching Gold Mining in New Zealand through Drama

These five incredibly simple methods for drama teaching inspired a teacher in New Zealand to bring to life her social studies project on gold-mining history.

Drop Of A Hat by David Farmer – Review January 2022

Review: “…a useful and helpful book for primary practitioners.”

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