This text provides a range of structured and progressive activities which focus on the part that drama plays in education at Key Stage 2 and Scottish levels C-E. Many teachers are cautious of using drama in their teaching and some equate drama solely with theatre skills. This text develops drama skills and examines drama as a medium through which other areas of the curriculum can be taught. Sections are included on language and literacy, acting for an audience, PSE and cross-curricular themes. It also includes structured lesson plans, built-in differentiation, activities for assessment and photocopiable worksheets.

 

This book features in the following series: Curriculum Bank, English Series .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Scholastic .

Larraine Harrison is currently the English Adviser for Barnsley School Effectiveness Team. She has many years experience in drama and English teaching and is an experienced author and INSET trainer.