The Drama Book: Lesson Plans, Activities, And Scripts For The Classroom

This book has everything you need to start using plays and drama activities in the classroom. Even if you've never done drama before. Drama is a powerful and versatile tool to teach a broad range of skills including verbal and nonverbal communication, oracy skills, pronunciation, pragmatics, and grammar. Give students effective fluency practice. Engage them in project-based learning. Everything you need is inside this book, including: Playing drama games to build community Teaching pronunciation through drama Performing monologues to practice communication skills Organizing roleplays and improv Exploring pragmatics through sketches and skits Producing Reader's Theater performances and podcasts Teaching vocabulary and grammar with scripts Staging a one-act play production Writing and workshopping a script Introducing academic content with process drama Assessing and giving feedback And 10 original photocopiable scripts that let you put the lessons into practice immediately. Written in a clear and concise style, Alice Savage carefully balances theory and practice, leading you through the steps of an activity and explaining the benefits. With a foreword by Ken Wilson, this book is a must-have for anyone who has any interest in doing drama for English learners or theater in the classroom at any level.

• | Author: Alice Savage, Walton Burns
• | Publisher: Alphabet Publishing
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 206 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1948492326
• | ISBN-13: 9781948492324