ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that ways of using stories and poems, photographs and pictures as useful starting points that provide a strong stimulus for the teacher and the children. Many people start teaching drama in the primary school by getting children to take on roles from stories they know and acting them out, following the original narrative. A whale beaches itself on the shore. The islanders want to use it for food, but the witch doctor says it must not be touched nor harmed. The girl stroked his head and as the moon came upshe sang to himof friends long dead and children grown and gone, sang like a mother to the whale, and sang of unrequited love. Anyone, child, adolescent or adult, who learns enthusiastically and willingly will learn far faster and at a far more profound level of understanding than if coerced into something. Of course children should be numerate and literate from an early age.
