Books and Resources

Contains 50 simple, fun, drama games for any occasion, class or group, and covering a range of activity levels: Vigorous; Calmer; Verbal and Creative. Many include ideas for follow-on or variations, and each game also specifies the amount of space and any equipment required to play it. However, the majority of games in this Compendium require little or no equipment - so are excellent ‘any time, any place, anywhere’ games!

If you don’t have the time to write your own school policy, Arts On The Move has produced a complete Drama Policy which will support your school framework and guidelines. The policy is provided on CD as a Word document, an ASCII text file and in pdf format, to enable you to make amendments appropriate to your own school working practices.

Six extended drama lesson plans which form complete full-length drama projects. The detailed, step-by-step workshop approach provides structured guidance on aims, methods and outcomes - including clear questions, teacher tips, areas for further consideration and suggested ideas for development. The tried and tested drama workshops cover a range of subjects and issues for Primary classes:-

• A First Encounter with Shakespeare - Hamlet
• History - WW2: Evacuees and the Home Front
• Narrative Poem into Performance (1) -
  An Introduction to Performance Skills
• Narrative Poem into Performance (2) -
  Introducing the Text: Matilda by Hillaire Belloc
• Narrative Poem into Performance (3) -
  Preparing, Polishing and Performing the Text
• Drama and Literacy - Exploring the Stories Behind the News Headlines

[supplied electronically on CD format]

Contains structured lesson plans of simple drama activities which help develop young children’s personal, social and creative skills. From speaking, listening and responding to role-play, improvisation and performance, with suggestions for further development or follow-on activities.

[Published by Scholastic]

Contains structured lesson plans of more advanced drama activities which help develop children’s personal, social and creative skills. From speaking, listening and responding to role-play, improvisation and performance, with suggestions for further development or follow-on activities.

[Published by Scholastic]

This practical book provides a clear conceptual framework for drama from 11 - 18, showing how students’ knowledge, skills and understanding can be built and developed throughout the secondary school years. Grounded in good practice, with a wealth of techniques and stimuli that really work in the classroom, the book offers a clear, structured route to ensuring progression in drama throughout your school.

[Published by Heinemann]

Drama can be used as a means of helping and healing those people who have special needs. This book concentrates on the practical methods of dramatic exploration which can be shared with groups and individuals. Dramatherapy can be used with adults or children, with individuals or in groups.

There are sections on using dramatherapy and playtherapy to explore cultural identity, for those who have learning disabilities, for people who are physically disabled, emotionally disturbed, abused and multiply disabled. There is a wealth of helpful advice and material given; information for setting up a group, setting out objectives, games to play, stones to tell and there are many case histories given as examples. There is also a section on training available for dramatherapists and playtherapists.

The benefits of using drama as a therapy can be appreciated by a wide selection of people; teachers, drama specialists, child care workers, social workers and many others.

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This book contains a wealth of lively and practical suggestions for all teachers, directors and anyone engaged in drama at any age. It is a useful resource book, in which the tried and tested material can be adapted and developed for use in any particular situation.

[Published by Heinemann]

Like its predecessor, this book of lively and practical suggestions for drama is intended to be used as a source book by drama teachers, students, youth and community workers, members of theatre groups - and anyone who is interested in drama for or by young people. The tried and tested ideas concentrate on developing children’s improvisational skills.

[Published by Heinemann]

Foreword by David Wood OBE

101 highly effective drama games and activities suitable for children or adults. Chapters include improvisation, mime, ice-breakers, group dynamics, rehearsal exercises, story-telling, voice and warm-ups. This unique book has been developed over a thirty year career in education and theatre, through workshops with actors, teachers and children around the world.

[Published by Lulu]

(a framework for learning through drama)

This book provides the teacher with a structured progression of teaching material, with supplementary drama games and extension activities on facing pages. The objectives of the teaching methods are to increase personal and social confidence in children’s observation skills, listening skills and the ability to work and communicate with others.

[Published by Nelson]

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This book provides an introduction for primary school teachers new to drama. It offers step-by-step guidance to help teachers and children grow in confidence in their use of drama and provides a range of strategies to help with planning, guiding and controlling a drama lesson.

[Published by David Fulton Publishers]

This is a practical handbook for drama teachers and youth theatre workers. It offers a whole range of theatrical ‘conventions’ to help initiate, focus and develop dramatic activity - whether in a workshop situation or as part of an active exploration of texts. A description of each convention is supported by references to its cultural connections, its learning opportunities and some examples of its use.

[Published by Cambridge University Press]

Bringing Books to Life Through Drama for 4-7 year-olds

This book is packed with ‘read it and run with it’ activities which bring books to life through drama for 4-7 year olds. Helping you to plan and deliver drama as a key tool for improving literacy, it shows how to use stories in combination with basic drama techniques in order to raise standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

This is a book of practical ideas for work with drama classes and groups aged 11 to 18. The ideas are presented in careful stages in the simple, direct language that teachers themselves will use to stimulate work in the classroom. With suggestions for differentiating activities by age group, and ideas on how pieces of work can be further developed.

[Published by Stanley Thornes]

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Drama and Traditional Story for the Early Years

This practical and accessible book, with tried and tested example dramas based on traditional stories, looks at how drama has its basis in good early years practice. In the dramas themselves there is progression for teachers and pupils, moving from simple working methods to more complex, full dramas.

[Published by Routledge Falmer]

This is a comprehensive 'how to' pack of 12 creative sessions and accompanying CD of original song, story, music and rhyme.

Each session offers an interactive blend of drama, movement and music to encourage development of the core social skills of concentration, confidence and co-operation in young children, whilst simultaneously developing their language skills and creative learning.

Excellent, clear lesson plans which are easy to use deliver a wealth of material for the busy early years/foundation stage practitioner interested in encouraging and enabling creativity.

Supports National Curriculum requirements throughout the Foundation Stage and at Key Stage 1 (English, Music, Physical Education and Science).