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The Little Book of Drama and Performance / Clêr Lewis and Rebecca Aburrow ; illustrations by Marion Lindsay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Clêr, author.
- Aburrow, Rebecca, author.
- Series:
- Little books (Featherstone Education)
- Little Books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (66 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Beginning drama with very young children can be a daunting prospect, but the benefits for children performing to an audience are endless. Developing speaking and listening skills, boosting self-confidence and self-esteem, developing language skills and using expressive arts are all specified as both prime and specific areas of learning in the EYFS 2012. Early Years performances need to be approached in the correct way and include lots of repetitive movements, actions, rhymes, songs and music. They need to be highly interactive, incredibly simple and above all fun for all concerned! This
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Links with the Early Learning Goals; Performing every day; Section one: Toolkit; A space to perform; Emotion faces; Shape shifters; Can you show me...?; Body machines; Quick pics; Role-play freeze; Ad-libs (what's in the cooking pot?); Animal action; Adapting songs and rhymes; The magic microphone; Section two: The extra touches; Masks; Hats; Cloaks, tabards and scarves; Other uses of fabric; Puppets; Using technology; Section three: Exemplar plays and shows; Harvest soup; Whoosh, sizzle, bang!; A very special Christmas tree; The Snow Child
- Chinese New YearDown to the farm; The suitcase; The Little Books Club
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 2, 2015).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4729-2341-3
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