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  • Enjoying Shakespeare

    These resources will help you structure your teaching so that pupils progress in both key stages in their knowledge and understanding of Shakespeare and their skills in responding to and writing about the plays. Ref: DCSF 00039-2009

    Romeo and Juliet at the Globe Theatre 2009

    The Globe's exciting and innovative production of Romeo and Juliet played to over 10,000 enraptured pupils and invited guests in March 2009 and is captured in audio files which can be streamed, or downloaded as MP3 files by teachers and used as a classroom resource. In addition to the play, there are interviews with the director, and some of the actors.

  • Shakespeare for all ages and stages

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    Booklet on Shakespeare stagecraft with advice from Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London.

  • Teaching Shakespeare: Globe Theatre materials for consultants

    Materials for consultants trained in the teaching of interactive drama strategies. This section is designed for Secondary National Strategy English consultants and is only accessible through a local authority password.

  • Teaching Shakespeare: models of effective consultancy

    Guidance on improving the teaching of Shakespeare, offering links to three models of effective consultancy. The models focus on: improving transition; teaching and learning in Key Stage 4; and improving teaching and learning in Shakespeare studies in Key Stage 3.

    Improving transition

    Information on how schools can plan a transition unit of work on teaching Shakespeare.

    Improving teaching and learning Shakespeare in Key Stage 3

    Guidance on improving the teaching of Shakespeare. Includes a ten-point plan aimed at helping departments whose pupils make too little progress in KS3 Shakespeare studies.

    Improving teaching and learning Shakespeare in Key Stage 4

    Consultancy package which sets out what kind of department would benefit, and spells out its aims in terms of outcomes in Key Stage 4 coursework. The model can be downloaded.

  • Teaching speaking and listening e-learning modules

      E-learning course on aspects of teaching speaking and listening with three modules: on Shakespeare, interviewing a visitor, and poetry through podcasting.

    • Module 1: Teaching Shakespeare

      Activities and resources for enhancing pupils' engagement with and understanding of Shakespeare using Much Ado About Nothing with Year 7 and Macbeth with Year 8.

  • Implementation programme: Using Shakespeare to support transition

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    Overview of the implementation programme on using Shakespeare to support transition from Key Stage 2 to 3. Includes the introduction, overview and description of the sessions 1-8. (Ref: 00037-07DWO-EN)

  • Implementation programme: Improving teaching and learning – Shakespeare studies

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    Overview of the implementation programme on improving teaching and learning in Shakespeare studies at Key Stage 3. Includes the introduction, overview and description of the sessions 1-8. (Ref: 00037-07DWO-EN)

  • Implementation programme: Teaching and learning- Shakespeare at Key Stage 4

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    Overview of the implementation programme to support teaching and learning of Shakespeare at Key Stage 4. Includes the introduction, overview and the description of the sessions 1-8. (Ref: 00037-07DWO-EN)

  • Improving the teaching of Shakespeare: Transcript of Year 7 pupil interview

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    Conversation of pupils and teacher where they reflect on their introduction to Shakespeare in Year 7 (Much Ado about Nothing) and their fears about the setting and language. Positive judgments are made about the experience.

  • Video highlights: Developing speaking and listening skills through dialogic teaching

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    Short video clip of a lesson using dialogic teaching to develop pupils' speaking and listening skills. The teaching discusses two versions of Romeo and Juliet, helping pupils extend and practise their talk and their thinking, which leads to more coherent discussions. This video clip is from a DVD (Ref 00023-2007DVD-EN), which supports effective speaking and listening teaching, and is an excerpt from the full video.

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