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"Since creative drama involves an entire class, the best place to begin in preparing students for activities that will involve movement and self-expression is where they are - at their desks".

Lehr (1983)

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	Mrs. Brown's Shopping List - drama warm-up game focussing on listening and concentration skills. Taken from the book "Dramastarters" (see details below) (29.5KB)
	Story Box - an oral language activity where pupils select cards and link the cards into a narrative story. Cards are arranged into groups to be copied and laminated. (94KB)
	Feelings Game - cut out the cards, laminate and ask the children to complete the feelings sentences. eg. "I feel confident when ...." (54KB)
	Drama Techniques and Strategies - a list of techniques and strategies that can be used in the drama lesson to compliment and develop an improvisation - from an article by Jonothan Neelands (37.5KB)
	"The Creation" - poem in the American gospel tradition, suitable for oral dramatisation (27.5KB)
	Writing Activities - based on a drama (25KB)
	Drama & Theatre Language - language you may wish children to learn about theatre and drama (38KB)
	Stage Directions - know your way around a stage (28.5KB)
	Drama Structure - an example of the structure of a drama lesson (29.5KB)
	Gestures Game - drama warm-up game children can do in their desks (25.5KB)
	Character and Other Walks - drama warm-up games (31.5KB)
	Freeze-in-Role - drama warm-up games (23KB)
	Morning Actions - drama warm-up activity (29.5KB)
	A Set of Values for Drama in Language Development - from a book by Jonothan Neelands (24.5KB)
	Famine Notice - notice for a famine ship to use as a starting point for drama (18KB)
	Book Review - "Drama for Learning - Dorothy Heathcote's Mantle of the Expert Approach to Education" (37KB)
	"Oliver" - script for an abridged version of the stage musical. (not sure where I got this from) (46.5KB)
	"Beyond the Orchard Wall - Learning Through Drama in the Primary School" - paper first presented to the ESAI Conference in 1997 (80.5KB)
	"Rock Nativity" - spoken choral piece taken from the "Rock Nativity" musical.
	"The Wizard of Oz" - script for an abridged version of the stage musical. (original script from St. James' School) (72KB)
	"The Story of the Willow Pattern Plate" - short script for a drama based on the story of the willow pattern plate. Use some music from "The King and I" to go with this (31.5KB)
	The Daniel Jazz - negro-spiritual choral piece for vocal dramatisation (28.5KB)
	I Wish I was Our Sammy - poem taken from "Blood Brothers" (36.5KB)

"Unless it is necessary to do otherwise ............ drama should move slowly".

- Jonothan Neelands (1984)

"Start from where you yourself are happiest and most confident".

- Brian Way (1967)

"The teacher's purpose in drama is to make the children do all the work".

- Jonothan Neelands (1984)

Seomra Ranga does not maintain any of the web sites provided as links so it assumes no responsibility for their contents, nor does any link constitute an endorsement of any other site, its sponsor or its contents. These links are just suggestions of websites that teachers may wish to visit to compliment their classroom teaching. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of each individual teacher or school to determine whether the links provided are suitable for children to visit.

	Craftpacks Educational Supplies - lovely range of puppets at reasonable prices (click Classroom Supplies > Literacy > Hand Puppets/Finger Puppets
	Drama Classroom Ideas (from the Theatre on a Shoestring website) - lots of drama activities and ideas that could be used in the classroom
	Creative Drama / Theatre Games
	A Brief History of Puppetry
	WIL's 30 Featured Rimes and Rhymes
	Scoilnet Theatre Theme Page
	Child Drama - play scripts and drama lessons
	Barnstorm Theatre Company
	Lazy Bee Scripts - large range of play scripts for children
	Baboró - International Arts Festival for Children, Galway
	Whootie Owl - free play scripts for the school concert
	Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theatre - scripts and tips for reader's theatre
	The Ark - Cultural Centre for Children
	Children's Theatre Plays - scripts for school plays
	School Play Scripts and School Musicals
	KMR Scripts - specialising in scripts for younger audiences
	Yellowbrick Publications - publishers of play scripts and musicals
	Samuel French - Theatre Bookshop
	Stageplays - The Internet Theatre Bookshop
	Team Educational Theatre Company

	Step by Step Educational Drama: Joanna Parkes and Sarah Fitzgibbon (Book of drama schemes geared towards the Irish Primary School setting) Download order form from NAYD:
	100+ Ideas For Drama: Anna Scher & Charles Verall
	Another 100+ Ideas for Drama : Anna Scher and Charles Verall (Heinemann, London, 1987) ISBN: 0 435 18800 3
	Dramastarters: Graham Stoate (Nelson, Surrey, 1984) ISBN: 0-245-54065-2 or 0-17-44115-0
	"The Gift": Eibhlín Milner (Veritas Publications, Dublin, 1998) ISBN 1 85390 399X (Nativity Play)
	"A Lad in a Manger": Michael Forster (Kevin Mayhew Ltd., Suffolk, 1997) ISBN 1 84003 036 4 (Nativity Pantomime)
	"The Late Wise Man": Denis O' Gorman & Barry Hart (Fountain Publications, Kent, 1989) ISBN 1 871975 30 1 (Seasonal Nativity Play)
	"Alas in Blunderland": Peter Gunning (O' Brien Press, Dublin, 1991) ISBN 0-86278-271-6 (Play)
	"Light of the World": Denis O' Gorman and Barry Hart (Fountain Publications, Kent, 1996) ISBN 1 84003 944 2 (Christmas Musical)
	"Gamesters' Handbook": Donna Brandles and Howard Phillips (Stanley Thornes Publishers, Cheltenham, 1977) ISBN 0 7487 0341 1
	"Primary Plays - Book 1: Junior and Senior Infants" (Folens, Dublin, 1995) ISBN 0 861 21 706 3
	"Primary Plays - Book 2: First and Second Class" (Folens, Dublin, 1995) ISBN 0 861 21 711 X
	"Primary Drama Handbook": Neil Kitson and Ian Spilby (Watts Books, London, 1995) ISBN 0 7496 1748 9
	"Bright Ideas - Drama": Fulford, J., Hutchings, M., Ross, A., Schmitz, H (Scholastic, 1990) ISBN 0-590-76386-5
	Take a Lesson in Drama - Kate Smith (Foulsham Educational, London, 1998) ISBN 0-572-02275-1