Drama and literacy -- Exploring story through drama conventions -- Exploring poetry through drama conventions -- Exploring non-fiction through drama conventions -- Developing role play areas.
Summary:
"Jumpstart! Drama contains more than 40 engaging, practical, easy-to-do and highly motivating drama activities which will appeal to busy primary teachers hoping to enliven their practice and make more use of drama throughout primary teaching. Suitable across a variety of subjects and for a wide range of learning styles, the book introduces readers to a range of drama conventions and demonstrates how to use them in the primary classroom. With all activities connected to well-known texts, this fully updated second edition now reflects picture books and novels published in the last five years, and includes additional chapters such as drama and the curriculum and drama and spoken voice"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.