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Year 3

Reading and performing scripts

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In this unit, pupils read, engage with, analyse and act from play scripts for the first time. They learn about the conventions of scripts, directors and actors' roles within a cast and how to improvise at the end of the unit. Pupils also build their performance and oracy skills.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of the text from the Year 2 unit 'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark: reading'. Here, pupils engage with play scripts for the first time, building their understanding of play script conventions, how casts work and what improvising is. Pupils read and discuss scripts based on three different texts and they learn some fundamentals around how to improvise in a group. This unit prepares pupils for further play analysis in the Year 5 unit 'Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': narrative and soliloquy writing'.

  1. Reading and performing a script based on 'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark'
  2. Reading and performing a script based on 'Charlotte's Web'
  3. Reading and performing a script based on 'The Iron Man'
  4. Improvising
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