Jumpstart! Drama: Games and Activities for Ages 5-11

Jumpstart! Drama contains more than forty engaging, practical, easy-to-do and highly motivating drama activities which will appeal to busy primary teachers who wish to enliven their practice and make more use of drama in line throughout their teaching.

Suitable for use across a variety of subjects and for a wide range of learning styles, the book introduces teaching practitioners to a range of drama conventions and demonstrates how to use them in the primary classroom. Organised in five clear parts, this new edition of Jumpstart! Drama covers the following topics:

 

• • The relationship and link between drama and literacy
  • Analysing both fiction and non-fiction texts through drama conventions
  • Exploring poetry through drama conventions
  • Developing role play and learning through imaginary worlds

 

With all activities connected to well-known texts, this fully updated second edition now reflects picturebooks and novels published in the last five years, and is ideal for busy primary teachers who wish to encourage their pupils in drama using texts in a dramatic and motivating way.

 

Contents

Chapter 1: Drama and Literacy
Introduction
The creative nature of drama
Drama within the curriculum
Drama and speaking and listening
Drama and writing
Drama and reading
Leading drama in the school
The drama conventions

Chapter 2: Exploring story through drama conventions
Thought tracking
Ritual
Group sculpture
Role on the wall
Role play
Teacher in Role
Decision alley
Forum theatre
Freeze frames
Hot seating
Improvisation
Sound collage

Chapter 3: Exploring poetry through drama conventions
Drama and poetry for Key Stage 1
Drama and poetry for Key Stage 2

Chapter 4: Exploring non-fiction through drama conventions
Drama and recounts
Drama and explanation
Drama and instruction
Drama and persuasive texts
Drama and reports
Drama and discussion

Chapter 5: Developing role play areas
A lighthouse
A space ship
A café
A circus
A bakery
The garden
At the seaside
An underwater scene
A World War II air raid shelter
A Victorian workhouse