In this totally revised and updated third edition, teachers will find favourites as well as new games and strategies to help students meet and exceed evolving curriculum expectations. This remarkable book includes more than one hundred games and drama activities, all with a clear learning focus. The activities use themes as a springboard for easy drama through games, movement, tableau, role playing, improvisation, readers theatre, choral speaking and much more. Teachers will find opportunities to explore literary genres that include the picture book, novel, rhyme, folktale, poem, scripts, and photograph. New drama structures look at relevant topics that range from personal narrative and the immigrant experience to bullying and building a community. This comprehensive approach to drama illustrates how teachers can reach each learner in the classroom. To make it easier for the busy classroom teacher, this new edition includes reproducible pages that are a popular part of the author's drama workshops, mask design, bully survey, tongue twisters, and more. To complete this valuable resource, the book features twelve assessment profiles as well as detailed assessment rubrics.
As teachers confront complex new challenges, this timely book will help them create dynamic classrooms and learning opportunities that focus on students and learning.
- ISBN10 0921217218
- ISBN13 9780921217213
- Publish Date December 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 December 2009
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Pembroke Publishing Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English