Teaching Literacy through Drama – Paperback / softback Sale Low Pice Fee Shipping

This book provides teachers of children at Key Stages 1 and 2 with a much-needed source of exciting and creative drama-based activities, designed to improve literacy. As useful for the drama novice as for the busy literacy co-ordinator, these flexible activities are designed to help teachers meet National Curriculum and National Literacy Strategy (NLS) requirements, particularly through speaking and listeningThe book is navided into three parts
Part 1 looks at literacy and the power of drama as a ‘brain-friendly’ medium for teaching and learningPart 2 contains ten structured, practical units of work, each based on a different story, poem, play or traditional tale or rhyme and each linked directly to the requirements and objectives of the NLS and the QCA objectives for speaking and listeningPart 3 contains photocopiable Literacy Support Sheets for teachers to use and adapt for their own classroom needs
All units of work have been tried and tested by the authors, giving teachers a springboard from which to enhance and extend their literacy lessons, and engage the imagination of their pupils. The book is also the ideal resource for student teachers.