Literacy Alive: Drama Projects for Literacy Learning - Softcover

Ackroyd, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340757744 ISBN 13: 9780340757741

Publisher: Hodder Education, 2000

Synopsis

A resource for teachers of Key Stages 1 and 2. It offers ideas and lesson plans for literacy teaching through drama, together with guidance on implementing the Literacy Hour and addressing the National Curriculum drama requirements.

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Review

It opens the mind to see how specific one can be in the use of drama strategies for the teaching of English language while at the same time acknowledging the imaginative, creative world of drama. Literacy Alive! Drama Projects for Literacy Learning offers interesting reading, new ideas, and much food for thought in relation to drama as a learning medium. (Drama Contact 2001-11-26)

This is an excellent text both for generalist teachers and for drama specialists. Most of the contributors have had extensive experience in working with children and it shows! This compendium of lessons opens up the area of literacy and language arts through drama...The literary sources for each lesson are varied in genres, making this text as applicable to early primary children as it is to adolescent learners...Literacy Alive! joins a number of new texts accessible to a wide audience of teachers interested in helping children to understand that language is alive and well and living through drama. (Drama Magazine 2001-12-01)

All those teachers who want to tackle the Literacy Hour in new ways and avoid any hint of staleness will find this an exciting book to read...This is very much a practical book for teachers and would be a useful addition to staff libraries. (School Librarian 2000-07-01)

Synopsis

This is a resource for teachers and trainee teachers of Key Stages 1 and 2. It offers ideas and lesson plans for literacy teaching through drama, together with guidance on implementing the Literacy Hour and addressing the National Curriculum drama requirements. There are step-by-step lesson plans and advice on how further classroom projects might be planned. Each chapter introduces a particular lesson, explaining its rationale, offering a case study and detailing how it can contribute to pupils' literacy learning. Examples of pupils' work are given as examples. At the end of each chapter is a lesson guide, enabling teachers to use the drama project in the classroom.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Education
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340757744
• ISBN 13: 9780340757741
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112