Drama Lessons: Ages 7–11 offers an exciting and varied range of tried and tested lessons tailor-made for busy teachers. Drama Lessons: Ages 7–11 emerges from the continuing positive responses to Drama Lessons for Five to Eleven Year Olds (2001).

In this book you will find a carefully chosen selection of the best lessons from the original book, plus some exciting new material – a combination of brand new and classic lessons. This new collection introduces Literacy Alerts which identify how the drama activities develop aspects of literacy and suggest additional literacy activities. For each lesson plan, essential resources and timing information are provided. The lessons cover a range of themes and curriculum areas.

Full of pick-up-and-go lesson plans, this book will be of enormous interest to specialists and non-specialists of drama alike. All primary teachers, literacy coordinators and teaching assistants should have this book in their hands and it will give all trainee teachers a flying start in their school placements.

Contents

1. Lonely Dragon 2. Red Riding Hood 3. Rubbish in the river 4. Romans in Britain 5. Building the Pyramid 6. Life Cycles 7. Reds and Greens 8. Charles I 9. World War II: The Home Front 10. Is Emma’s Friend Stealing? 11. Where’s the blame? 12. The Mysteries of the World

Author Bio

Judith Ackroyd is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Regent’s College, London.

Jo Barter-Boulton is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Northampton.