Advanced Search      About Us      Author’s Corner      Request a Catalog      Writer’s Guidelines      FAQs      Contact Us      Home  
Pioneer Drama Service
Contemporary Drama
Christian Plays and Musicals




 Acting
 Children's Theatre
 Choreography
 Comedies, Skits
 Costuming
 Directing
 Improvisation
 Language Arts
 Monologues, Duets
 Multicultural
 Musical Theatre
 Play Anthologies
 Playwriting
 Readers Theatre
 Scenes, Auditions
 Shakespeare
 Speech, Forensics
 Stagecraft
 Storytelling
 Theatre Arts CDs
 Theatre Arts DVDs
 Theatre Games
 Theatre Textbooks
Back to Results








Grammar Wars & Grammar Wars II


By: Tom Ready

Age Level: All Ages
Cast:
Time:

Grammar Wars
Improv is a fun way to learn language arts as well as acting and theatrical skills. The author, a leading California language arts and theatre educator, years ago discovered improv exercises and games that blur the lines between performance and language practice. Since then, he’s used improvisation to teach English, and English to teach rehearsal and acting skills. The exercises and games in this improv book can be used to help students learn punctuation, grammar, and parts of speech as well as performance skills. Categories include: Phonics, Vocabulary, Parts of Speech, Punctuation, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Storytelling, Writing, Acting, and more. The games are divided into three levels of difficulty: easy, moderate, and difficult.
Click here to see the table of contents.
(ISBN: 978-1-56608-063-7; 184 pages, 5½ x 8½, paperback)


Grammar Wars II
The original and very popular Grammar Wars improv text has been workshopped in classrooms throughout the U.S. Now a new text to answer questions about this unique and valuable technique for learning language and theatre arts. In addition to over 130 new games, the author explains productive and defensive behaviors that students exhibit in the performance of the exercises. By encouraging productive behavior, students learn performance skills as well as punctuation, grammar, and parts of speech. An excellent supplemental theatre text.
Click here to see the table of contents.
(ISBN: 978-1-56608-080-4; 448 pages, 5½ x 8½, paperback)

This title is now carried by Pioneer Drama Service.  Click here to order on Pioneer's web site.