If you're looking to connect your copywork with your Shakespeare study, Copywork Cave can help. The majority of our 12 week collections feature a weekly exercise copying Shakespeare of some sort - from short quotes to full passages of text and also excerpts from E. Nesbit's Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare. Here you'll find the full run-down on which plays feature in each collection so you can match to your study if desired.
Level 1 - for early writers age 6 - 8
Collection 2 includes some short quotations from William Shakespeare (both Classic and Christian versions are the same in this regard)
Level 2 - for developing writers age 7 - 9
Collections 1-3 features a weekly short excerpt from a different play; sometimes including more than one character.
Collection 1 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Collection 2 – Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing
Collection 3 – The Tempest
Collection 4 – Quotes from Shakespeare about friendship, anger and life
Collection 5 – All’s Well that Ends Well (Story version by E. Nesbit)
Collection 6 – A Winter’s Tale (Story version by E. Nesbit)
Level 3 - confident writers age 10 - 14
Each collection in Level 3 includes a slightly longer passage from the relevant play.
Collection 1 – Hamlet
Collection 2 – Romeo and Juliet
Collection 3 – Macbeth
Collection 4 – The Merchant of Venice
Collection 5 – The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Collection 6 – The Taming of the Shrew
Why copy Shakespeare?
It exposes us to complex vocabulary
It familiarises children some of his most beautiful and memorable lines
It builds confidence in reading and understanding Shakespeare so children never think "this is too hard"
It helps consolidate learning about the characters and plot of each play
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