The concept of English teaching approach to drama for kids is quite simple: Take one familiar game or activity, the topic from a unit kids are currently studying, and turn it into a drama lesson!
With that in mind, here are eight drama activities for kids you can add to your repertoire straight away.
One Word Story
Create a whole-class story in this imaginative drama activity that is for practicing individual and group focus. Students sit or stand in a circle.
Establish who will begin the story and which direction the story will travel (clockwise or anti-clockwise).
The first person begins the story by saying a single word, e. g. “There. ”
Whoever is next in the circle says another single word that makes sense following the previous word, e. g. “was. ”
Continue around the circle, with each person saying a single word with the aim of building a coherent story.
When using this as a general drama activity, you could use one of the Teach Starter widgets as a prompt for the story. The Vocabulary Word of the Day spinner has dozens of word lists you could draw from, the Visual Writing Prompts Widget provide perfect One Word Story stimulus, and the Random Sentence Starter spinner is a really fun way to kick-start your students’ imagination!
Layer in Context:
Connect this drama activity to content from a unit, text, or topic your students are currently studying. Establish with the class a few broad “key features” the whole class story needs to have. For example, if students are exploring food and nutrition in a health unit, you could agree upon the following aspects of the story:
Drama.
The concept of English teaching approach to
drama
for kids is quite simple: Take one familiar game or
activity
, the topic from a unit
kids
are
currently
studying, and turn it into a
drama
lesson!
With that in mind, here are eight
drama
activities
for kids you can
add
to your repertoire straight away.
One
Word
Story
Create a whole-
class
story
in this imaginative
drama
activity
that is
for practicing individual and group focus.
Students
sit or stand in a circle.
Establish who will
begin
the
story
and which direction the
story
will travel (clockwise or anti-clockwise).
The
first
person
begins
the
story
by saying a single
word
,
e. g.
“There. ”
Whoever is
next
in the circle says another single
word
that
makes
sense following the previous
word
,
e. g.
“
was
. ”
Continue around the circle, with each person saying a single
word
with the aim of building a coherent story.
When using this as a general
drama
activity
, you could
use
one of the Teach Starter widgets as a prompt for the
story
. The Vocabulary
Word
of the Day spinner has dozens of
word
lists you could draw from, the Visual Writing Prompts Widget provide perfect One
Word
Story
stimulus, and the Random Sentence Starter spinner is a
really
fun way to kick-
start
your
students’
imagination!
Layer in Context:
Connect this
drama
activity
to content from a unit, text, or topic your
students
are
currently
studying. Establish with the
class
a few broad “key features” the whole
class
story
needs to have.
For example
, if
students
are exploring food and nutrition in a health unit, you could
agree
upon the following aspects of the story:
Drama.