Teacher's Guide

The Spotlight on Plays Teacher's Guide provides practical teaching notes for all the plays in the series, with comprehensive support for guided reading, advice on staging the plays as group and class performances and photocopiable activity masters. Matched to NLS objectives and Scottish 5-14 guidelines.


Spotlight on Plays is a series of play scripts for the literacy session, ideal for guided reading and group or class performance. Children are introduced to the key features of play scripts through original stories, traditional tales and adaptations of children's literature. Spotlight on Plays provides an ideal springboard for children's own work as playwrights. Age 7-9.The plays in the series are:
Age 7
* The Brementown Musicians
* The Hairy Toe
* Bendelomena
Age 8
* Short Pants
* Billy Goats Tough
* The Crazy Critters
Age 9
* Maui Tames the Sun
* The Princess and the Pea
* Michael Rosen's 'Kaleidoscope'