Drama at Key Stages 1 and 2

Contents

• Introduction

1. The diversity of drama practice
   • Introduction
     1. Personal experience and perceptions
     2. School observations
     3. A continuum of drama practice
     4. The National Curriculum
     5. Process drama
2. Planning for role play areas
   • Introduction
     1. Generating and categorising possible places
     2. Creating people
     3. Ideas for teacher in role
     4. Improvising predicaments
     5. A planning frame
3. Resourcing drama from literature
   • Introduction
     1. Exploring a story through drama.
     2. The planning and teaching process
     3. Planning drama from fiction
     4. Planning drama and literature across the curriculum 
4. Drama and writing
   • Introduction
   • Engaging in drama and writing
   • Discussing readings
   • Connecting conventions to text types
5. Looking at learning in drama
   • Introduction
   • Key areas /making priorities
   • Related reading

• Additional Resources
  • Drama conventions to structure and develop drama
  • Examples of predicaments for role play areas
  • The plans for one role play area
  • The diamond nine statements