Resources and Reading
References and further reading
This list does not claim to be comprehensive, but may help student teachers exploring aspects of drama in their coursework assignments. It could be run off and offered as a resource for this purpose.
Baldwin, P. and Fleming, K. (2002) Teaching Literacy through Drama London: Routledge
Bearne, E., Grainger, T. and Wolstencroft, H. (2004) Raising Boys' Achievements in Writing, Joint Research Project United Kingdom Literacy Association and the Primary National Strategy, Baldock: United Kingdom Literacy Association.
Booth, D. (1996) Story Drama: Reading, Writing and Role Playing across the Curriculum, Markham: Pembroke.
Bunyan, P., Catron, J., Harrison, L., McEvoy, S., Moore, R., Welburn, B., and Williams, J. (2000) Cracking Drama: Progression in Drama within English (5-16). York: York Publishing Services for NATE
Cook, M. (2002) Bringing the outside in: using playful contexts to maximize young writer's capabilities in S. Ellis and C. Mills (Eds.) Connecting, Creating: New Practices in the Teaching of Writing, Leicester: United Kingdom Reading Association pp. 8-20.
Cremin, M. (2004) The role of imagination in classroom drama (Unpublished PhD dissertation Canterbury Christ Church University College).
Cremin, M. and Grainger, T. (2001) Resourcing Classroom Drama 8-14 Sheffield: NATE
Cremin, T., Goouch, K., Blakemore, L., Goff, E. and Macdonald, R. (2006) Connecting Drama and Writing: seizing the moment to write, Research in Drama in Education 11 (3): pp. 273-291. Available at the Open University's open access institutional repository – Open Research Online (ORO) at http://oro.open.ac.uk.
Cremin, T., McDonald, R., Goff, E. and Blakemore, L. (2008) Jumpstart Drama! London: David Fulton.
Crumpler, T. and Schneider, J. (2002) Writing with Their Whole Being: a cross study analysis of children's writing from five classrooms using process drama. Research in Drama Education 7 (2) pp. 61-79.
Dyson, A. H. (1998) The children's forum: Linking writing, drama and the development of community in an urban classroom in Wagner, B.J. (1998) Educational Drama and Language Arts: What Research Shows, Portsmouth, NH Heinemann.
Edmiston, B. (2003) What's my position? Role, frame and positioning when using process drama Research in Drama Education 8 (2) pp. 221-230.
Fleming, M., Merrell, C. and Tymms, P. (2004) The Impact of Drama on Pupils' Language, Mathematics, and Attitude in Two Primary Schools Research in Drama Education 9 (2) pp.177-197.
Grainger, T. (1998) Drama and Reading: Illuminating their interaction, English in Education 32 (1) pp. 29-37.
Grainger, T. (2005) Dramatisation et Écriture - saisir les occasions d' écrire, Caracteres Journal of the Belgian Francophone Reading Association. 20 (4) pp. 201-214.
Grainger, T. and Cremin, M (2001) Resourcing Classroom Drama 5-8 Sheffield: NATE
Grainger, T. and Kendall Seatter, S. (2003) Drama and Spirituality: reflective connections, The International Journal of Children's Spirituality 8 (1) pp. 25-32. Available at the Open University's open access institutional repository – Open Research Online (ORO) at http://oro.open.ac.uk
Grainger, T. and Pickard, A. (2004) Drama: Reading, Writing and Talking our Way Forwards Leicester: UKLA
Heathcote, D. and Bolton, G. (1995) Drama for Learning: Dorothy Heathcote's Mantle of the Expert Approach to Education, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Hendy, L. and Toon, L. (2001) Supporting Drama and Imaginative Play in the Early Years, Buckingham: Open University Press.
Henry, M. (2000) 'Drama's ways of learning', Research in Drama Education, 5 (1) pp. 45-62.
Kitson, N. and Spiby, I. (1997) Chapter Two: Learning through Drama in Drama 7-11 London: Routledge pp. 27-42
McNaughton, M.J. (1997) Drama and children's writing: a study of the influence of drama on the imaginative writing of primary schoolchildren, Research in Drama Education, 2 (1) pp. 55-86.
Neelands, J. (1992) Learning Through Imagined Experience (Teaching English in the National Curriculum) London: Hodder and Stoughton
Neelands, J. (2000) Structuring Drama Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Neelands, J. (2000) Drama sets you free or does it? in J. Davison and J. Moss (Eds.) Issues in English Teaching pp.73-89.
Neelands, J. (2009) Acting together: ensemble as a democratic process in art and life
Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 14 (2) pp. 173 - 189
Nicholson, H. (2000) Dramatic literacies and difference, in E. Bearne and V. Watson (Eds.) Where Texts and Children Meet, London: Routledge
Rose, J. (2009) Independent review of the primary curriculum: Final report. London: Department of Children, Families and Schools.
Taylor, P. and Warner, C. D. (2006) Structure and Spontaneity: the process drama of Cecily O'Neil, Stoke on Trent: Trentham
Teachers TV (2006) English-Drama in the Classroom, Published: 28th April 2006
http://www.teachers.tv/video/2846 Accessed 20th February 2010
Teachers TV (2008) Literacy and Drama, Published: 28th August 2008
http://www.teachers.tv/video/28255 Accessed 20th February 2010
Teachers TV (2010) KS1 Literacy - Reading, Writing and Role-Play, Published 13 January 2010
http://www.teachers.tv/video/37273 Accessed 20th February 2010
Teachers TV (2010) Great Lesson Ideas - Primary Cross Curriculum: World War II Published: 12 January 2010
http://www.teachers.tv/video/41792 Accessed 20th February 2010
Wagner, B. J. (1998) Educational Drama and Language Arts: What Research Shows, Portsmouth: NH Heinemann.
Winston, J. (1998) Drama, Narrative and Moral Education London: Falmer
Winston, J. and Tandy, M. (1998) Chapter Six: Progression, continuity and assessment in primary drama in Beginning Drama 4-11. London: David Fulton pp. 88-103
