Have you wanted to use drama more in your early years teaching?

 

This is a book that looks at how drama has its basis in good early years practice. Most early years practitioners are doing some drama and edging towards more structured work. This text will help them to go further because it is practical and accessible, offering 16 full dramas and more than 30 starting points from which to develop new dramas.

This book focuses on how teachers can use drama to promote speaking and listening for pupils, including those who find learning difficult. Relating this to the important idea of Dialogic Teaching, it describes, analyses and teaches how to use role play effectively and looks at how to generate a productive dialogue between teachers and pupils that is both powerful and enabling. The authors present innovative methods for teaching across the curriculum, which are genuinely inclusive and can help to motivate reluctant learners.

 

‘At last! – a book on Speaking and Listening that guides teachers into ways of enriching communication in the classroom’. – Gavin Bolton, Reader Emeritus, University of Durham

Reviews

Absolutely great process drama activities based on literary sources for helping teachers explore important social skills with their younger students. United States

I lost this book and rebought it because it is that inspirational. It has all the lessons planned out and the children really enjoy it and immediately are engaged in it. UK

Absolutely great process drama activities based on literary sources for helping teachers explore important social skills with their younger students. United States