DRAMA FUN | MIDDLE SCHOOL DRAMA GAMES & READERS' THEATER

Save more than 30% off ($6.25) on this drama fun activities bundle; the games and scripts will keep even the most rambunctious grade 5-8 drama classes busy and entertained for many hours! This is a NO-PREP, high interest bundle, complete with TWO freebies. These resources are part of a mega money saving 50% off Bargain Bundle: 50% OFF DRAMA BIG BARGAIN BUNDLE.

DRAMA GAMES
45 fun middle school theater games and activities will keep even the biggest and most rambunctious drama classes busy and entertained. These drama games and activities will nurture life-long skills while supplying lesson-long fun for your grades 5-8 students!
-- The games strengthen a variety of essential drama skills, using the voice, body, team collaboration, and even memory.
-- They range from improv warm-up games for individuals and teams, to scene creation, to games that can be played to hone skills while the class is rehearsing a play.

-- Some games last a few minutes, while others (depending on the size of your class) could take a whole lesson.
-- Some of these games are frequently used ones, but most (hopefully!) will be completely new to you. They all have one thing in common: FUN!
-- The resource ends with a Readers’ Theater Script. This script is a middle school drama class mystery that your students first read aloud, then collaborate to solve the drama class whodunit.
ALL GAMES AND ACTIVITIES ARE STUDENT TESTED AND APPROVED!

Teacher prep
Most of the games do not require ANY teacher prep. A few of the games use topic cards, giving you, for example, enough dramatic scenes and situations for each group in the class to have a different one. If you copy them onto card stock, or laminate them, they will last until your retirement party.

This resource contains
-- 21 Warm up games for individuals
-- 10 Warm up games for teams

-- 7 Scene creation activities
-- 7 Play rehearsal warm up games
-- Readers' Theater Mini-Mystery Script.

DRAMA TIME FILLERS
These 20 fun drama activities are precious sanity savers! This no-prep drama time fillers resource heals a horror experienced by all middle school and high school teachers. It is last block of the day and your beautifully planned lesson has finished...but the block hasn’t! There is another 10 minutes to go- yikes! When you have this drama teacher survival kit at the ready you can quieten even the most rambunctious classes on Friday afternoon. The 20 activities in this resource will calm your classes, rather than rev them up, as acting games often do. Unscrambling drama words, performing drama writing (such as creating a dice roll plot synopsis), hand drawing a drama word cloud- all of these activities will keep your students thinking about drama, even when they are not acting! Only ONE activity has to be photocopied: the drama word search.

How to use this resource

The simplest way to use the resource is to put the activity instructions on your screen and allow the students to read the guidelines of each activity themselves. Most of the easy to follow instructions are directly addressed to the student, explaining to them what to do. There are a few activities where you will probably want to verbally announce what the class should do, and in that case the heading of the page reads, in capitals, TEACHER GUIDELINES.

READERS' THEATER: Mystery of the Stolen Laptop

This grades 5-8 Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script gives students high-interest practice in reading aloud, comprehension and writing. Drama and ELA fun! "The Mystery of the Stolen Laptop" readers’ theater script requires your students to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The cast list is intended for 8 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded, depending on how many groups you wish to have.
PLOT
This funny and engaging 12 page script is about the theft of a laptop at school and the detective work two characters use to track it down. The main character parts range in age from 10-14. Matt fears he isn’t as speedy at working things out as his clever friend Sophie is, but he manages to wow her in this whodunit- and discovers where his laptop is!

STUDENT TASKS
-- Students read aloud their assigned part.
-- To track down the missing laptop, students unscramble anagrams.
-- They also work out clues using a numbers-to-alphabet code.
-- They discuss and write on six short answer questions.
-- They complete a journal entry in paragraph form.
-- They design a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ style drawing for a fellow student.

Question sheets and answers are included.

READERS' THEATER: Mystery of the Drama Camp Thief
This funny Middle School readers’ theater mystery activity will give your students practice in reading aloud, comprehension, and writing. Making inferences and finding context clues practice AND Drama and ELA whodunnit fun- phew! The Mystery of the Drama Camp Thief is a realistic, 10 page script that will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The cast list has 12 readers but the number of readers can easily be reduced to as few as 7. Doubling up of roles is easy. This resource will delight both entire classes and small groups of early finishers. Question sheets and answers are included. The script is both a printable PDF and an Easel Activity.

PLOT

This funny and engaging story is about the theft of a necklace at a camp and the detective work that two characters use to track it down. The main character parts range in age from 12-14. Matt fears he isn’t as speedy at working things out as his clever friend Sophie is, but he manages to wow her in this story- and discover where her much-loved necklace is!

STUDENT TASKS
-- Students read their individual parts aloud.
-- To track down the missing necklace, students unscramble anagrams. They also work out clues using a numbers-to-alphabet code.
-- Students write on 5 pages of writing activities. Students have to discuss and write on questions about the reading of the play, how it might be filmed, and on issues the play raises, such as peer pressure.
-- They also have some fun creative tasks, such as writing a short rhyming poem.

Table of Contents

Script --- Pages 1-10

Mystery clues --- Page 11

Reading the script questions --- Pages 12-13

Filming the script questions --- Page 14

Thematic questions --- Page 15

Creative writing activities --- Page 16

Answers to the mystery --- Page 17

There's many more scripts in my store!
For all of my Readers' Theater scripts - largely MYSTERY scripts - take a peek at READERS' THEATER INDIVIDUAL SCRIPTS GRADES 5-8

For all of my Readers' Theater script BUNDLES, take a peek at READERS' THEATER SCRIPT BUNDLES
Want to combine a Readers' Theater mystery with elements of drama exercises? READERS' THEATER MYSTERY SCRIPT WITH ELEMENTS OF DRAMA EXERCISES
Try a Young Holmes mystery, based on a classic Sherlock Holmes story: YOUNG HOLMES READERS' THEATER MYSTERY SCRIPT OR YOUNG HOLMES INVESTIGATES THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE

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