Drama Cover or Starter - Drama Scategories Game

Drama activity for KS4 pupils, or HA Y9s based on the board game ‘Scategories’. Ideal for classroom based cover lessons and suitable for non-specialists to deliver. NO PRINTING NECESSARY! Pupils will just need a whiteboard, or a pen/pencil and paper each.

I have shortened this task and used this as a starter task for writing lessons in drama with KS4 to get them thinking about and discussing key vocabulary prior to doing exam-style question practice. Makes for a nice, ‘fun’ starter before the serious work begins!

The resource includes:
1 x PowerPoint (see info below)
1 x Word document with category cards to print (optional)

The powerpoint includes pupil friendly written instructions, additional notes for the teacher, timers embedded into the slides for effective time management, example of how to play the game, 5 game cards (each with 10 drama themes/‘categories’ on them), and 10 extra slides with different letters on them so that the activity can be extended to produce different responses from pupils (using the original 5 game cards).

Each ‘letter’ slide is duplicated to support your preferred delivery method (i.e. using printed game cards / displaying them on the PowerPoint / swapping game cards on to slides with different letters).

Dyslexia friendly resource (Comic Sans font).

Grey clouds used in example images to prevent printscreening - these will not appear in the files that you download.

Have fun!