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Free drama projects
Readers Theater: Play Writing Graphic Organizer
Download this two page document to help your students write and create their OWN play after you have read through several Reader's Theater plays. Use the Play Writing 101 page as reminders for your students how dialogue, directions, etc. work in a play. Take it one step further and record your students. :)
Enjoy!
Alicia Broughton
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3rd - 7th
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Free Printable Crafts | Train Engineer Hats | Polar Express Craft
Do you need a low prep December craft for your preschoolers, kindergartners, and first graders? Are you having a Polar Express party or Christmas train activity day? These free printable train engineer hats are the perfect craft to add to the fun! With easy step by step instructions, these are the low prep craft you need this holiday season. If your students are working on writing their names, I've provided multiple options for them to practice writing their names on the hats. Or, if students a
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PreK - 1st
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Acting Performance Rubric (Intro.)
Assessing a student's performance in class can be a tricky thing, but this rubric will help you do just that. Share this rubric with your students in advance and explain to them what you're going to be looking for. It helps them, and you, know what your expectations are (but also gives you the flexibility to grade students according to their individual abilities and growth).
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Nativity Christmas Play or Skit
This is a short one page Christmas Play we wrote for first graders using parts of popular holiday songs (e.g. Away in the Manger). It retells the story behind the First Christmas. We purchased costumes from Oriental Trading Company and music from iTunes. The play / skit can be performed in about 20 minutes or less. The play helped English-Language learners practice speaking skills and the parents really enjoyed seeing their children perform it. It can be performed by one class (20-30 students) o
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K - 3rd
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Anansi and the Pot of Beans Play Script for Young Actors
Looking for the perfect play for your large cast? "Anansi and the Pot of Beans" tells the tale of Anansi, the trickster spider, and how spiders lost all of their hair! A sweet reader's theatre style production that can be acted out by your young actors or even turned into a puppet show! Opportunities for music to be added to make it a wonderful themed evening of African inspired performances!
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1st - 5th
Harry Potter Sorting Hat Activity & Coloring Pages
This resource helps students identify personality traits as adjectives in themselves and then there are coloring pages for each Hogwarts House.Sorting hat clipart by Jodi Marie Fisher of Colorfully Playing the Piano& the coloring pages by https://coloringonly.com/
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A Christmas Carol - A Traditional Version Play Script FREE PREVIEW
This is a free preview of the Christmas play script - A Christmas Carol - A Traditional Version. The full play script is available for just $5.50 by following the link below:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-Christmas-Carol-A-Traditional-Version-Play-Script-4129677⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻This is a play script for Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'. It tells the story of a mean, old man named Ebenezer Scrooge, who runs a dark and miserable business.
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4th - 8th, Staff
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Two Player Skits: scripts for acting or reader's theatre
The mini-play advantage…
The mini-play works very well for students who have completed their work early and need a little challenge (not another worksheet!).
The skits are fun-filled reading material for students who don’t like reading much of anything else.
The skits can be as demanding or as undemanding as you please when it comes to sets, properties and costumes.
If the student chooses to memorize, the amount of lines is not overwhelming.
Each skit is two to three minutes in length
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4th - 6th
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Reader's Theater Script of The Rainbow Fish
This is a short play from a classic, well-loved children's book. Teachers can use it as Reader's Theater, a centers option, or project. It can also help students with reading fluency. Students can record their voices and edit for quality. T
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K - 6th
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Santa's Map Mishap Readers Theater
Ignite your students' imaginations with "Santa's Map Mishap," a humorous and educational Christmas-themed script perfect for Primary students. In this festive play, Santa Claus embarks on a test flight before the big day, only to find himself hilariously lost due to some modern navigation gone awry. With characters like the ever-reliable Rudolph, a tech-savvy elf, and a supportive Mrs. Claus, the story unfolds across a series of global missteps, leading to whimsical encounters with penguins and
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Readers Theater Bundle: Christmas Adventures
Christmas Carol, Mini-Unit
Let me make your job easier! I'll provide the tried, tested, and student-approved mini-units.
All you have to do is pop in the DVD and facilitate accountable talk about the questions I provide in the viewing guides.
This mini-unit on the film "A Christmas Carol" (the one with Patrick Stewart) comes complete with an anticipation guide about Kwanzaa, viewing guides, homework assignments, a summary quiz, and a final project.
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6th - 12th
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The Odyssey Reader's Theater Script
If you download this freebie, please leave feedback. Thanks so much!Attached is an editable Odyssey Reader's Theater/Play Script word document. I used it with my 2nd grade for a school assembly. They were able to learn every line by heart. The music definitely makes for a strong start to the play! Feel free to use or adapt in any way you see fit! -Enjoy!
Current Events Project: Create a News Station
In this activity students will work together in a group to create a news team. Each student will be responsible for one of the lead jobs in the newscast. Six jobs are outlined in the project. You can modify using more or less as needed. Students will give the highlights of the news, weather, sports, and more in a class team.
In this packet you will find:
A student directions handout
An idea/example for a news team script for the students to go by
Additional ideas and Extensions for thi
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3rd - 6th
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Multiple Intelligence Enrichment Project
A project designed according to The Multiple Intelligences which can be used for any age, in any classroom!
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1st - 8th
Pantomime Unit
This is a terrific unit for non-actors and students starting out in acting class. I use this with my beginning students to learn how to tell a story using their bodies via pantomime. This is an easy and safe way to introduce your students to storytelling without making them talk in front of the class.
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3rd - 12th
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Modernizing Myths from Ancient Greece
In the Modernizing Greek Myths lesson, students read and summarize a classic myth from Ancient Greece. Working in teams, they then brainstorm ways to bring that myth into the modern age. Teams write three minute plays based on their modern ideas, performing their work in front of the class to complete the project. The source myths for this activity were written by Lin Donn, and the King Midas radio play embedded in the PowerPoint presentation was created by the BBC.For Google Docs and Slides lin
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5th - 7th
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Story Structure: Write Your Own Story!
This five-step story planner is intended to help kids understand stories by creating their own. By devising a character with a specific desire, kids can lead their protagonist through a problem, solution and ultimate conclusion.
This story structure could be used in your classroom in many ways, from writing a short book to creating a class play. However you use it, your students will learn how stories often follow a main character's journey, and how that journey is created by authors. They
Class Book | Feelings and Emotions | Back to School Activities | Characters
This class book is a great way to talk about feelings in your classroom! Enjoy!
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K - 2nd
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Magazine Characterization Playwriting Scene Writing Acting Activity Project
Resources designed to help you lead students through a simple scene writing and acting project using faces cut out of magazines as the inspiration for characters.
The scenes could be used as a creative writing project in an English class, as a formal performance project in a Theatre Arts class, or as a beginning of the year icebreaker in any class!
I use this as the performance component of my Intro to Technical Theatre Unit in my high school Theatre Arts 1 classes. It is their first performa
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3rd - 12th
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Activity: Murder in Moab free murder mystery game
Murder in Moab is a role playing party game activity. Someone has assassinated King Egghead and it’s up to you to figure out whodunit. Players are suspects and investigators in this murder which is loosely based on the events in Judges 3. Zip file contains character dossiers for the essential 3 males and 3 females plus additional optional characters, clues, invitations, directions, suggestions and a Bible study.
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The Armor of God free drama acti
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7th - 12th
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Creating an Infomercial (propaganda techniques)
I do this project at the end of every year. It takes about a week for the kids to get into the groove of it. They really like the freedom to do whatever they want, either selling or supporting a cause, and then I film them on my iPad. We all spend a class period after we present them watching the other classes' infomercials. This is the checklist for the project.
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5th - 12th
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Costume Design Worksheet
Help your students design detailed costumes with this worksheet complete with body template, introduction to color theory, and a step-by-step guide on developing a new costume design.
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2nd - 9th
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Christmas Play - The Grinch
I adapted Dr. Suess' beloved Christmas story into a play that would work in elementary school. In my case, I had my grade 6/7 class as the actors, and the other classes each performed a song. I had help from the music teacher and other classroom teachers for the songs. If you don't have a music teacher, then you could easily omit the music portion and the play would still run great. I suggest surveying your potential actors to see who is interested in learning a lot of lines and who isn't befor
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Not Grade Specific
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Writing a Reader's Theater Script Presentation
This slideshow is designed to accompany my "Writing a Reader's Theater Script" project, which you can also download from my shop! The presentation is designed to introduce the project to the whole class and guide students through the close reading and script writing process.
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2nd - 8th
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