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Welcome to Comedy Classroom for primary schools

大象传媒 Comedy Classroom provides a brilliant framework for children to explore comedy writing. Focusing on comedy writing is a perfect match for UK-wide core curriculum requirements for teaching English and helps pupils develop key literacy skills.

The 大象传媒 Comedy Classroom pack contains a series of three 60-minute teaching sequences, which include pupil-facing activities that you can launch directly on to a smartboard or print for homework and extension. The pack also contains top tips from comedians, comedy industry producers and writers to help pupils write the funniest jokes, sketches and comedy captions.

By using the resources in the pack and online, teachers will be able to support their pupils to develop important reading and writing skills which will address literacy outcomes that have been drawn from the Key Stage 1 and 2 curriculums in England, the Northern Ireland Curriculum, the Curriculum for Wales and P1-7 in the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland.

By using these resources your pupils will…

Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary
Learn how to select and use appropriate registers for effective communication
Be able to demonstrate how language structure and presentation contribute to meaning
Identify themes and conventions in a range of texts

All the activities and resources are designed to inspire you and your class or group to have fun with writing and to motivate children of all abilities. It really is designed to be flexible. Dip in and out of the Comedy Toolbox, put on your creative hat and encourage your pupils to start tickling those funny bones!

The resources are broken down in to 3 categories

Class Joker
Joke writing and telling – the writer performs jokes to try and make people laugh

Class Act
Parody sketch – the writer takes an idea from something we already know and turns it into a funny scene that people can perform

Class Comic
Caption comedy – the writer looks at a picture and creates a funny line or speech to go with it

You can access lesson plans, student-facing slides, and 大象传媒 archive clips from this page to help inspire your pupils.

Class Joker - Joke writing

Pupils will write and perform their own jokes. They will learn how to put across their own particular view of the world in their own words.

Download the lesson plan for joke writing.
Download the pupil-facing slides to accompany the Class Joker lesson plan.
Use this clip as part of the Class Joker lesson plan.
Download the joke match up worksheet as part of the Class Joker lesson plan.

Class Act - Sketch writing

Pupils will script and perform a unique sketch. They will learn how to turn a funny idea into a scene that can be performed by more than one person.

Download the lesson plan for sketch comedy writing.
Download the pupil-facing slides to accompany the Class Act lesson plan.
Use this clip from C大象传媒's FIT! as part of the Class Act lesson plan.

Pupils will view the images and devise and write appropriate comedy captions in the spaces provided for each image.

Download the lesson plan for caption comedy writing.
Download the pupil-facing slides to accompany the Class Comic lesson plan.
Download this captions worksheet as part of the Class Comic lesson plan.
Download this captions worksheet as part of the Class Comic lesson plan.

Download this resource booklet which provides a series of three flexible 60-minute teaching sequences. It also contains top tips from comedy industry professionals to help pupils write the funniest jokes, sketches and comedy captions that they can.
The Comedy Toolbox helps break comedy down into its separate literary components, helping pupils to create their own comedy using whichever tools they please.
The Comedy Glossary helps explain some of the terms often used in comedy writing.
These stickers are designed to be used with 60mm diameter round sticker paper (12 per page). Download and print so your pupils can tell everyone they are class comedians!
View and download individual pupil-facing slides as JPEGs