This year, we asked what resources would be helpful for you in your day-to-day life as an educator. You said classroom posters, so we got to work.
With the new school year just around the corner, here are some of our favorite free posters for your classroom (and the creative ways our teachers have been using them!).
How can you use posters in your classroom?
- Classroom Decoration: Colorful, engaging posters help to foster a positive learning environment.
- Printable Handout: Posters can be repurposed as printable handouts, providing students with a tangible resource to support comprehension and review.
- Topic Worksheet: Posters can be used to introduce new activities, encouraging active participation through worksheet variants.
- Indirect Learning: Posters help to introduce new material ahead of time, supporting comprehension, indirect learning, and comprehension through visual aids.
Classroom Decoration: A Timeline of Western Theatre History
Using a classroom poster to decorate your classroom might sound obvious. However, a lot of research has gone into proving the benefits of adding color and engaging visuals to your learning environment.
This is what inspired our Timeline of Western Theatre History poster, which takes students through key periods of the performing arts in a multimedia format.
This poster aims to make learning more memorable, providing students with a visual aid to understand how Romanticism led to Naturalism, or why post-war periods often shift to the absurd. In other words, it has been designed to make your classroom work harder for you.
You can unlock this free theatre classroom poster here.
Printable Handout: Poetic Themes
In a 2025 DT+ survey, we asked teachers to share their preferred resource format:
- 80% of teachers said classroom posters
- 40% of teachers said printable student handouts
In response, we created a classroom poster that can be easily repurposed as a printable handout. Why? To help teachers maximize content reinforcement and provide their students with a tangible, familiar resource to aid in future home study.
Our Poetic Themes poster combines literary analysis, key quotes, and QR code links to high-quality recitations, all in one interactive resource. Join the 500+ English teachers who have already received their free poster.
Download your PDF ‘Poetic Themes’ poster today.
Topic Worksheet: Shakespearean Insults
While our Poetic Themes poster aids revision, we’ve also designed classroom posters that focus on in-lesson teaching. One popular example is our poster of Shakespearean insults.
This poster includes a blank ‘worksheet variant’ to encourage active participation in your ELA or theatre lessons (and save you time planning your next class starter).
→ Read Next: How to Teach Shakespearean Insults
Download your free Shakespearean Insults poster here.
Indirect Learning: [NEW] Classroom Poster Set
A new school year means new students – and new student needs.
This is where our new ELA resource comes in. We’ve created a set of six classroom posters, each featuring famous quotes from popular texts such as The Crucible, Macbeth, A Doll’s House, and more.
These posters help introduce new material ahead of time for students who require additional support, and the beautiful imagery (taken from DT+ productions) can bring literature to life for even the most reluctant of readers.
Explore the complete poster set – and claim your PDF copy today!