Children's and Young Adult Literature (Education): Poetry & Drama

For secondary school students.
Class Acts 1: Plays for Fun and Class Acts 2: Plays for Fun provide high-interest and humorous collections of short play scripts for medium to large casts that incorporate a range of theatrical styles of performance.

Class Acts 1: Plays for Fun and Class Acts 2: Plays for Fun provide high-interest and humorous collections of short play scripts for medium to large casts that incorporate a range of theatrical styles of performance.

Using tried and tested example dramas based on traditional stories, the authors show how clearly dramas are constructed. They move from the simple use if TiR (Teacher in Role) to more complex, full dramas, using traditional stories including Little Bo Peep, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Humpty Dumpty, The Pied Piper, The Billy Goats Gruff and Hansel and Gretel.

An an essential text for anyone teaching drama in the modern classroom.

Includes a detailed listing of fifty plays by English playwrights chosen by their contemporaries, which have most influenced those working professionally to make theatre for young audiences.

Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet, life writer and essayist from Gunnedah and Tamworth, north-western New South Wales. She writes a stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry.

Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart 'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. Mike Dixon is an educational consultant specialising in English in the classroom.

In this beautiful collection of poems, award-winning author and poet, Libby Hathorn, has brought together favourites such as those by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Dorothea Mackellar and C.J. Dennis, as well as more contemporary poems by Steven Herrick, Eva Johnson, Les A. Murray and others.

A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz

Developing skills for reading and understanding poetry

Thirty-five imaginative and humorous poems for an adult and a child to read aloud together. . . .