Creative Drama with 7-11 Year Olds: Lesson ideas to integrate drama into the Primary Curriculum »

Miles Tandy and Jo Howell are advisers with Warwickshire’s Educational Development Service, UK. They have written widely about drama and literacy, and their publications include Creating Writers in the Primary Classroom (Routledge, 2008) and Beginning Drama (Routledge, 2008).

This practical book gives you all the ideas you need to make drama a regular and integral part of your school’s curriculum, offering detailed suggestions of drama work for ages 7 to 11. The teaching units are arranged around four strands: drama for literacy; drama and the whole curriculum; drama film, media, and ICT; and drama for performance. The authors provide a wealth of practical activities throughout. Each unit includes:

• explicit links to the Renewed Framework for literacy and the wider curriculum


• a list of resources needed


• clear learning objectives and outcomes


• steps for teaching and learning including how to modify activities to suit your school


• links to writing


• assessment guidance.

Based on the authors’ experience as teachers and in-service trainers, this book provides a wide range of ideas and activities for inspiring drama across Key Stage 2, and is essential reading for all those interested in bringing drama into their school.

Acknowledgements ix

How to use this book xi

3L Gentle Giant 1

3C The Romans 10

3F Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets 19

3P All about our town 28

4L Theseus and the Minotaur 35

4C Change in the environment 44

4F Space 52

4P The Comedy of Errors 61

5L The Listeners 72

5C Howard Carter and Tutankhamen 80

5F The Invention of Hugo Cabret 90

5P Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 99

6L Leon and the Place Between 110

6C Shipwrecked: making for survival 119

6F Silent film 127

6P Coriolanus 135

Appendix 1 drama structures and strategies used throughout the book 146

Appendix 2 further reading to help develop drama in your school 149

Index 150