Using drama to support literacy : activities for children aged 7 to 14 / John Goodwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodwin, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama in education.

Literacy programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Paul Chapman Pub. ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using ideas and activities already tried and tested in the classroom, this work shows practitioners how imaginative drama lessons and activities can be used to help encourage and improve children's writing, speaking and listening skills.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the author; Setting the scene for this book; The scope and structure of the book; Introduction: How to use this book; What children and teachers say; Part I: Strategies; Caption Making; Ceremony; Conscience Alley; Costume or Prop; Dream Pictures; Forum Theatre; Hot Seating; Journeys; Meetings; MIME; Modelling; Movement Sequences; Narrate; Role on the Wall; Sequencing; Space Building; Speaking Thoughts; Still Image; Teacher in Role; Thought Tracking; Trials; Part II: Lessons in Action; Literacy; The Big Bad Wolf; The Spooky House

...and the Clock Struck ThirteenThe Key; The Three Little Pigs (with a difference); Poetry of the First World War: Dulce et Decorum Est; Poetry of the First World War: Christmas 1924; Goodnight Mr Tom (1); Goodnight Mr Tom (2); PSHE; Stealing; Bullying; History; The Second World War: The Blitz; The Second World War: History/Literacy/Music; RE; The Christmas Story; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611245115

9781412920506

1412920507

9781281245113

1281245119

9781847878632

1847878636

OCLC:

476144124