The power of words: Exploring writing through drama

This scheme of work combines drama and creative writing activities, with the aim of creating stories, poems and performance pieces. Drama and creative writing work well together because you can use them to develop literacy skills in an accessible way. Through a range of activities, you will boost students’ confidence with the spoken and written word, discover new ways to record devised pieces of work, and enhance your students’ storytelling abilities. The scheme is as open as possible to allow you to incorporate your own themes and texts if you need to, but the exercises are also effective in their own right as a creative writing scheme of work.
You will find included extension activities for use at KS3 and KS4. You can also extend the work by polishing the devised pieces and looking at ways to perform your students’ written work, meaning this will operate as a three-week or six-week scheme. The third lesson in the scheme works as an innovative way to introduce the subject of Industrial Britain in KS3 History