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September 5, 2025

Time To Act: Evaluating the impact of Royal Shakespeare Company pedagogy on literacy and academic self-concept in primary schools

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Cluster randomized trial reveals drama-based strategies enhanced writing skills in Year 5 pupils, suggesting integration into English curriculum.

Intervention group showed significantly greater lexical diversity and emotional expressiveness in writing.
No significant effects on self-concept or reading/language skills were observed.
Training teachers in drama-based strategies involved 20 hours of rehearsal room pedagogy.
Future research should explore impacts on oracy and generalization to different writing contexts.

Collins et al. (2025) studied this question.

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Cluster randomized trial reveals drama-based strategies enhanced writing skills in Year 5 pupils, suggesting integration into English curriculum.