Teaching Literacy through Drama

Name: Teaching Literacy through Drama
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Teaching Literacy through DramaCreative Approaches\nAuthor(s): Patrice Baldwin, Kate Fleming\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138171381, 978-1138171381\nSynopsis\nThis 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 listening.\nThe book is divided into three parts:\n\nPart 1 looks at literacy and the power of drama as a 'brain-friendly' medium for teaching and learning.\nPart 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 a.