Primary drama resources

150 x starter activities with the theme of Drama (KS3/GCSE). Includes space for students to explain the keywords and suggested extension activities. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, a homework, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. There are at least: 30 x Wordsearches 30 x Crosswords 30 x Anagram Sheets 30 x IDEA (Identify, Describe, Explain, Analyse) Analysers 30 x Alphabet Brainstormers (for some there's more than one activity so there's more than 150 altogether) Themes/topics are (in no particular order): 1. Approaching A Script, 2. Using The Space, 3. Using Your Body, 4. Using Your Voice, 5. Developing Characters, 6. Drama Elements, 7. Improvisation, 8. Staging A Scene, 9. Structure Of A Play, 10. Famous Plays & Performances 11.Acting 12. Common Mis-spellings 13. Costume 14. Genres 15. Masks 16. Mime 17. Musical Theatre 18. Pantomime 19. Specialisms 20. Media 21. Communication 22. Conflict 23. Dramatic Irony 24. Emotions 1 25. Emotions 2 26. Gesture 27. Key Terms (ABC) 28. Language 29. Lighting 30. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

30 starter-style I-D-E-A (Identify, Describe, Explain, Analyse) starters covering 10 topics and themes. Students complete the ones they are comfortable with (eg lower ability complete 'Identify' where they simply can list their thoughts, higher ability complete 'Explain' and 'Analyse' where more detail and sentences can be used. Some of the next one can then be completed based on what they thought, to push them a little further. Themes are: 1. Approaching A Script, 2. Using The Space, 3. Using Your Body, 4. Using Your Voice, 5. Developing Characters, 6. Drama Elements, 7. Improvisation, 8. Staging A Scene, 9. Structure Of A Play, 10. Famous Plays & Performances 11.Acting 12. Common Mis-spellings 13. Costume 14. Genres 15. Masks 16. Mime 17. Musical Theatre 18. Pantomime 19. Specialisms 20. Media 21. Communication 22. Conflict 23. Dramatic Irony 24. Emotions 1 25. Emotions 2 26. Gesture 27. Key Terms (ABC) 28. Language 29. Lighting 30. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

30 starter-style alphabet brainstorm analysers on the theme of Drama. Themes are: 1. Approaching A Script, 2. Using The Space, 3. Using Your Body, 4. Using Your Voice, 5. Developing Characters, 6. Drama Elements, 7. Improvisation, 8. Staging A Scene, 9. Structure Of A Play, 10. Famous Plays & Performances 11.Acting 12. Common Mis-spellings 13. Costume 14. Genres 15. Masks 16. Mime 17. Musical Theatre 18. Pantomime 19. Specialisms 20. Media 21. Communication 22. Conflict 23. Dramatic Irony 24. Emotions 1 25. Emotions 2 26. Gesture 27. Key Terms (ABC) 28. Language 29. Lighting 30. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

30 starter-style anagram sheets on the theme of Drama. Themes are: 1. Approaching A Script, 2. Using The Space, 3. Using Your Body, 4. Using Your Voice, 5. Developing Characters, 6. Drama Elements, 7. Improvisation, 8. Staging A Scene, 9. Structure Of A Play, 10. Famous Plays & Performances 11.Acting 12. Common Mis-spellings 13. Costume 14. Genres 15. Masks 16. Mime 17. Musical Theatre 18. Pantomime 19. Specialisms 20. Media 21. Communication 22. Conflict 23. Dramatic Irony 24. Emotions 1 25. Emotions 2 26. Gesture 27. Key Terms (ABC) 28. Language 29. Lighting 30. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

30 starter-style crosswords on the theme of Drama. Themes are: 1. Approaching A Script, 2. Using The Space, 3. Using Your Body, 4. Using Your Voice, 5. Developing Characters, 6. Drama Elements, 7. Improvisation, 8. Staging A Scene, 9. Structure Of A Play, 10. Famous Plays & Performances 11.Acting 12. Common Mis-spellings 13. Costume 14. Genres 15. Masks 16. Mime 17. Musical Theatre 18. Pantomime 19. Specialisms 20. Media 21. Communication 22. Conflict 23. Dramatic Irony 24. Emotions 1 25. Emotions 2 26. Gesture 27. Key Terms (ABC) 28. Language 29. Lighting 30. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

30 starter-style wordsearches on the theme of Drama. Themes are: 1. Approaching A Script, 2. Using The Space, 3. Using Your Body, 4. Using Your Voice, 5. Developing Characters, 6. Drama Elements, 7. Improvisation, 8. Staging A Scene, 9. Structure Of A Play, 10. Famous Plays & Performances 11.Acting 12. Common Mis-spellings 13. Costume 14. Genres 15. Masks 16. Mime 17. Musical Theatre 18. Pantomime 19. Specialisms 20. Media 21. Communication 22. Conflict 23. Dramatic Irony 24. Emotions 1 25. Emotions 2 26. Gesture 27. Key Terms (ABC) 28. Language 29. Lighting 30. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

50 x starter activities with the theme of Drama (KS3/GCSE). Includes space for students to explain the keywords and suggested extension activities. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, a homework, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. There are at least: 10 x Wordsearches 10 x Crosswords 10 x Anagram Sheets 10 x IDEA (Identify, Describe, Explain, Analyse) Brainstormers 10 x Alphabet Brainstormers (for some activities there's more than 1 so there's more than 50 altogether) Themes/topics are (in no particular order): 1. Communication 2. Conflict 3. Dramatic Irony 4. Emotions 1 5. Emotions 2 6. Gesture 7. Key Terms (ABC) 8. Language 9. Lighting 10. Theatrical Expressions Includes space for students to explain the keywords and suggested extension activities. Can take 10 minutes or an hour, depending on which activities the students complete. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, a homework, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

10 starter-style I-D-E-A (Identify, Describe, Explain, Analyse) starters covering 10 topics and themes. Students complete the ones they are comfortable with (eg lower ability complete 'Identify' where they simply can list their thoughts, higher ability complete 'Explain' and 'Apply' where more detail and sentences can be used. Some of the next one can then be completed based on what they thought, to push them a little further. Themes are: 1. Communication 2. Conflict 3. Dramatic Irony 4. Emotions 1 5. Emotions 2 6. Gesture 7. Key Terms (ABC) 8. Language 9. Lighting 10. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

10 starter-style Alphabet Brainstorm Analysers covering 10 topics and themes. Themes are: 1. Communication 2. Conflict 3. Dramatic Irony 4. Emotions 1 5. Emotions 2 6. Gesture 7. Key Terms (ABC) 8. Language 9. Lighting 10. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

10 starter-style anagram sheets covering 10 topics and themes. Themes are: 1. Communication 2. Conflict 3. Dramatic Irony 4. Emotions 1 5. Emotions 2 6. Gesture 7. Key Terms (ABC) 8. Language 9. Lighting 10. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

10 starter-style crosswords covering 10 topics and themes. Themes are: 1. Communication 2. Conflict 3. Dramatic Irony 4. Emotions 1 5. Emotions 2 6. Gesture 7. Key Terms (ABC) 8. Language 9. Lighting 10. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

10 starter-style wordsearches covering 10 topics and themes. Themes are: 1. Communication 2. Conflict 3. Dramatic Irony 4. Emotions 1 5. Emotions 2 6. Gesture 7. Key Terms (ABC) 8. Language 9. Lighting 10. Theatrical Expressions Includes suggested extension activities, which can take 10 minutes or a whole lesson depending on detail given. Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen. The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!