Contents

• Introduction
• The Diversity of Drama Practice
• Introduction
• Personal experience and perceptions
• School observations
• A continuum of drama practice
• The national curriculum
• Improvisational process drama
• Planning for Role Play Areas
• Introduction
• Generating and categorising possible places
• Identifying the people
• Ideas for teacher in role
• Improvising predicaments
• A planning frame
• Resourcing Drama from Literature
• Introduction
• Exploring a story through drama
• The planning and teaching process
• Planning drama from fiction
• Planning drama and literature across the curriculum
• Watching drama examples from across the curriculum
• Drama and Writing
• Introduction
• Engaging in drama and writing
• Discussing set readings
• Connecting conventions to text types
• Looking at Learning in Drama
• Introduction
• Key areas of learning
• Focusing on the imagination
• Related reading
• Resources and Reading
• References and further reading
• Links with other areas of the ITE English website
• Professional Standards for QTS