Stage 1
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Type of Behaviour
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Ideas for Dramatic Action
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Your ideas
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Embodiment
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Gross
body movement involving the whole body
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Creative ideas of moving as monsters,
aliens, mice. Walking as… My day as...
The Dream of…Use Guided Imagery here.
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Inside the
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Fine body movement with different body
parts
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Sewing like the tailor…making porridge like
Mammy bear. Counting the coins like…preparing to go hunting, writing notes
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Body
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Sensory movement involving textures, sound,
taste, smell and sight –
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Touching
objects and guessing size, texture, use.
Can be done as unseen (touch only) or sighted activity.
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Singing games, which name body parts, as
they are touched.
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Hands heads shoulders knees and toes etc
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Swordplay and wrestling.
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Three
Duels: Toes, knees, backs- modelled by teacher.
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Rhythmic movement and dance
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In circle copy teacher in 3 moves. Then move independently. Clapping/tapping/ moving with different
body parts
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Stories
with sounds and movement. Act-telling
the parts of story children liked. .First thing the character wakes up in
their bed. Then feels hungry, then thirsty, then cold or hot, windy or wet.
Linking to the seasons. Next the need
of safety ;hears a sound, sees a strange movement in the long grass, touches
something that is unusual and a wee bit scary, Smells something in the distance. This may be a problem for
Mammy, or little brother or sister. Feels
lonely and goes to meet his friend and play with them. Says bye-bye to Mammy who says “Don’t be long-be back
for dinner”. Goes off to meet the friend. Finds a friend and needs help with
something from that friend. The Friend
has a problem that needs
solving. Can “you” help?. The
character somehow solves the
problem and goes home to Mum ( possibly
with the friend) . Character is very tired now and curls up bedside Mammy and falls fast asleep. Later
tells Mammy( TIR) about this as “
News”.
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Stage 2
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Type of
Behaviour
Ideas for Dramatic Action
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Your Ideas
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Projection
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Play with substance
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Sand,
water, finger paint, clay, Plasticine
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Outside the
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Play with bricks and counters
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Patterns, constructions, 'all fall down'
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Body
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Play with toys
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Sand tray stories, sculpts, paper placement,
making maps, mapping journeys
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Play with scenes
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Dolls house, puppets (making of puppets
too)
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Pebbles, bark, twigs, leaves
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Play with pictures
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Crayons, paints, drawing, collage with
varied media
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Stage 3
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Type
of Behaviour
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Ideas for Dramatic action
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Your Ideas
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Role -
Combination of two
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Action:
Teacher/Pupil Apprentice Mime
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Guessing game of characters in story TIR
act; PIR guess the characters at a point in story. Known character with an
unknown problem. Bear cannot tie up his bag.
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Internal and
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Pupil
independent mime in group
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Leader of the orchestra. What am I doing?
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External
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Pupil holding Iconic Role
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Frozen Statues (Time limit 10 sec)
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Find (TIR) roles in stories that that
children (PIR) can ask questions. TIR has information: PIR requests
information to solve a problem, find a solution or understand why certain
actions happened.
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Goldilocks is missing. PIR in Role as friends of Goldilocks; TIR
as Baby Bear
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Create animal characters that
interact.
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Diorama of a normal day for the animal
[direct parallel with children’s day based on needs*[1]
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Use simple roles with single feelings. Then change form one feeling to another.
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The angry animal/person, the sad person and
maybe draw the faces of the characters/people.
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Time and place
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Guess where I am? (Mime of place e.g.
Kitchen Guess what time it is? Mime of time e.g. time to go to bed.
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Belief
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Believing it is the winter. Through feeling not showing. Feel the snow beneath your feet as you walk
over the pond to save the bear. Sausages. Out of role and in role. As group
questioning.( Not smiling)
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Voice
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Speaking in the voice of a character:
Soft/Loud/soft.
Slow to Fast to slow
Low to High to low
Sleeping to Waking to sleeping
Nice to Cross to nice
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