Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Drama (Classroom Gems)

✍ Scribed by Michael Theodorou

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 403
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A collection of 150 unique games and activities to help support teaching drama in the primary classroom.

 

Designed with busy teachers in mind, the Classroom Gems series draws together an extensive selection of practical, tried-and-tested, off-the-shelf ideas, games and activities guaranteed to transform any lesson or classroom in an instant. Easily navigable, allowing you to choose the right activity quickly and easily, these invaluable resources are guaranteed to save you time and are a must-have tool to plan, prepare and deliver first-rate lessons.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
About the author
Introduction
Part 1 Movement
Fingertips
Mirror Work
Starters (solo)
Starters (pairs)
Starters (groups)
Moving Through Space
Fun Games
Circle Work
Object Shapes (pairs)
Object Shapes (groups) (The Fridge)
Objects Shapes (groups)
Robots
Letters and Words
More Letters and Words
Numbers
Leading with the Nose (part 1)
Leading with the Nose (part 2)
Changing Direction
Monsters
More Monsters
Even More Monsters
Walking
Character Walks
James Bond
Animal Movement (The Cat)
Animal Movement (Fish)
Animal Movement (The Tortoise)
Animal Movement (Birds and Insects)
Animal Movement (Kangaroos and Cuckoos)
Looking and Listening
Making Statues
All Aboard!
Jobs (part 1)
Jobs (part 2)
Jobs (part 3)
Expressive Mime (The Letter)
Expressive Mime (The Window Cleaners)
Expressive Mime (The Tramp)
Expressive Mime (The Report and The Cake)
Monsieur Hulot
Gesture
More Gestures
Dramatic Change
Melodrama Movement (part 1)
Melodrama Movement (part 2)
Group Movement
Double-glazed Window
Period Movement
Comedy Movement
Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Visualisation
Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
Games
Use of Props
Crowd Work
Using the Five Senses
Changing Shapes
Movement and Voice
Part 2 Voice
Sing Up!
Witch Voice?
Sound Effects (part 1)
Sound Effects (part 2)
Playing with Words
Nonsense Words
Repetition and Variation
Newspaper Headlines
War Chants
Once Upon a Time (part 1)
Once Upon a Time (part 2)
Character Voices (part 1)
Character Voices (part 2)
Character Voices (part 3)
Character Voices (part 4)
Melodrama (Voice Work)
Choral Speech
Mobile phones
The Travellers and the Bear (part 1)
The Travellers and the Bear (part 2)
The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Hare and the Tortoise
The Fox and the Crow
Pronouncing Difficult Words
Soundscapes
The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
Improvisation Starters (Family Life)
Spoken Improvisation Work
A Day at the Beach
Character Box Conversations
Loopy Dialogues (part 1)
Loopy Dialogues (part 2)
Stating Intentions
The Crowd – Mrs Pankhurst
Dramatic Pause
The Owl and the Pussycat (part 1)
The Owl and the Pussycat (part 2)
Group Sounds (part 1)
Group Sounds (part 2)
Talking in Sounds (part 1)
Talking in Sounds (part 2)
The Daffodils
Householder
Helping Others
The Eagle
Shopkeeper
Spooky Stories
The Land of Counterpane
Eating In and Eating Out
Waiter, There’s a Fly in My Soup!
What Really Annoys Me is …
Peter and the Wolf
Television Channels
Books
Nursery Rhymes
At the Zoo
Victorian Children up Chimneys
Victorian Children in Factories
Part 3 Character
Oliver Twist (The Board)
Oliver Twist (Picking Straws)
Oliver Twist (Meeting his New Employer)
Oliver Twist (Meeting Fagin)
The Secret Garden (Mary Lennox in India)
The Secret Garden (Mary Lennox in England)
The Secret Garden (Arrival at Misselthwaite Manor)
The Secret Garden (At Misselthwaite Manor)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Supernatural Characters)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Mechanicals)
Macbeth
The Cuckoo Clock (Griselda Meets Her Aunts)
The Cuckoo Clock (Griselda Sees the Cuckoo Clock)
A Christmas Carol (Scrooge and His Nephew)
A Christmas Carol (Scrooge and the Charity Collectors)
A Christmas Carol (Scrooge and Cratchit)
A Christmas Carol (Unearthly Characters)
Dracula (part 1)
Dracula (part 2)
Great Expectations (The Convict)
Great Expectations (The Tickler)
Great Expectations (Stealing the Pie)
Goodbye, Mr Chips (Teacher’s Nightmare)
Appendix