English Theatre

English Theatre is designed to uncover the behind-the-scenes world of professional English Canadian Theatre. Within these web pages we invite parents, teachers and students to embark on a journey through thematically organized content that will lead to a greater understanding of and appreciation for the people and processes involved in transforming a play from the page to the stage.

Drama Workshop

Drama Workshop: Ideas For Teaching Drama
This site contains my own collection of ideas I have used for teaching drama both in Theatre Workshop contexts for Youth Theatre Groups and for developing spoken language skills with students across a variety of age and ability ranges.

Child Drama.com

ChildDrama.com: This website is packed with resources for Drama Teachers in Elementary and Secondary Schools, and for producers of Theatre for Young Audiences. I created this website to help me get my own plays out there, and to provide help and support to producers, school Theatre directors, and classroom Drama teachers. Since then it has become one of the biggest educational drama resources on the net. There is all sorts of great stuff here!
Lesson Plans: Most of these lesson plans work with a large age range. These lessons are presented with fairly specific instructions.

Drama from Picture Books

Drama from Picture Books: I often use children's picture books as lesson starters in my classroom. Below are some suggestions, based on the kind of approaches I have taken, for how you can turn a picture book into a Creative Drama lesson. There is also a link to a list of picture books I have found especially well-suited to Drama, each with a short explaination of how I have used it.

101 Drama Games for Children: Fun and Learning with Acting and Make-Believe

Drama

Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays -