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Free middle school creative writing scripts
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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Rumpelstiltskin: Exploring Story Elements through Dramatic Arts
Rumpelstiltskin: Exploring Story Elements through Dramatic Arts is the first lesson in my Once Upon a Time Unit, designed to teach Common Core Reading and English-Language Arts* standards with an artistic bent. The lesson includes both Grimms’ story version of the tale and an original student created script based on the story. As students compare the two methods of telling a story, they learn the difference between narratives and scripts. Rumpelstiltskin is a well-known fairy tale character, and
A Midsummer Night's Dream | A Play Script for Young Performers | FREE PREVIEW
This is a free preview of the William Shakespeare play script - A Midsummer Night's Dream. The full play script is available for just $4.75 by following the link above.This is a preview of our play script for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which has been rewritten to be suitable for ages 9 to 14. A Midsummer Night’s Dream tells the story of four Athenian lovers who have a complicated yet dramatic love life. Lysander and Hermia loved each other and wished to be together. Helena
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4th - 8th
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Playwriting Template - Google Docs Version - Professional Manuscript Standard
This document contains a link to a Google Docs version of the professional playwriting manuscript format. This can be used by professionals, higher educational students, and secondary grade levels.
The link will take you to a page that forces you to create a copy of the Google Doc, which will then automatically appear and save in your Google Drive.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Santa and the Presents Factory: A Short Christmas Play (COVER ONLY)
Santa has to close down his Presents Factory after revolutionising the categorisation system because the world is plagued with Not Yet Nice and Sometimes Nice children. In fact, just three Consistently Nice children remain! Santa requests these children make the trip to the North Pole, seemingly to crown one as his replacement. But the Bad Guy has other ideas, and he knows more about the children than even they know…Perfect for groups of 5-7 people, and great for class plays!Approx. 10 minutes p
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3rd - 6th
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Playwriting Template - Google Docs Version - Elementary Grade Levels
This document contains a link to a Google Doc template for playwriting. This is designed for elementary grade levels using Google Docs.
The link will direct you to a page that forces you to copy the document so it automatically appears in your Google Drive.
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PreK - 6th
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Film Animation Script Starter Writing Template - Doc Erase Retype Format Freebie
This is just a simple doc. file for a film/movie/animation script starter template. It has some instructional wording and some gibberish (for students to take out....but just to show them the general format). I hope this is helpful for your students!This freebie is part of two different growing bundles of resources that I have available in my TPT shop. Click on the links below to check out each of the bundles:Check out my "High School SPED Writing Growing Bundle" at this link:https://www.teac
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4th - 12th
TEDx Talk Script Development Tool
This resource package can be used for a classroom activity, formative or summative assessment. It allows your students think critically and creatively about a topic and display their knowledge and understanding in a TEDx environment which fosters a supportive and encouraging space to listen and learn.
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7th - 10th
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The Westing Game Readers Theatre Project
Have students create their own Readers Theatre for "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin.
Informally assess student understanding of inter-character relationships, character development, and other literature concepts with this end-of-the-unit project.
Not only is this a great project for "The Westing Game", but because it is a .word document, feel free to make your own edits or substitute another guided reading, shared reading, or read aloud with this project format to fit your classroom!
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3rd - 8th
Script Writing Template
This product is perfect for your class if you want them to experience the art of scrip writing.
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3rd - 6th
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Doing Something Nice, Inc.
DOING SOMETHING NICE, INC. is a short play that demonstrates that doing something nice is not always easy. Oh, sure, it's easy doing nice things to nice people, but what about the not-so-nice, like Witch and Rattlesnake?
Four elementary students, Bonnie, Kristine, Charlie, and Mike, have set up a business to do nice things to others. They are excited and eager about their new business until Witch comes in for a treatment. Her entrance provokes screams as the four dash for cover. After they are
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3rd - 6th
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When Three Explorers Meet - A Readers Theater Script
Created by 7th Graders - "Readers theater" depicting a chance meeting in the afterlife of three important explorers - Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and Zheng He.Reader's Theater script for [4] readers - includes humorous insults, references to the similarities and differences of these explorers and student creativity. ENJOY! Please leave a note of your favorite parts to share with my students if you use it. :)
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6th - 8th
Hamlet | A Play Script for Young Performers | FREE PREVIEW
This is a free preview of the Hamlet - Play Script. The full play script is available for just $4.75 by following the link above.The play script is suitable for students aged 9 to 14. Hamlet tells the story of a Prince whose father, the King, has just died. His father’s ghost visits him and tells him that the new King, Claudius – who has married his mother – was the killer.Hamlet wants revenge and the story follows a bloody path in which he takes revenge but loses his own life, and the life of t
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4th - 8th
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Thanksgiving PSA Project
This project allows your students to create a Public Service Announcement persuading Americans to not eat turkey for Thanksgiving. Your students will have a blast.
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4th - 9th
Macbeth | A Play Script for Young Performers | FREE PREVIEW
This is a free preview of the William Shakespeare play script - Macbeth. The full play script is available for just $4.75 by following the link above.This is a free preview of a play script for William Shakespeare's Macbeth, which has been written to be suitable for ages 9 to 14. Macbeth tells the story of a fierce warrior who meets three strange witches on his way home after a battle. The witches tell him that he will be King. At first Macbeth thinks they are lying but then he starts to believe
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4th - 8th
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Shark Tank Assessment Development Tool
This alternative assessment idea allows you to reinvent the wheel and get students engaged by allowing them to showcase their creativity.
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7th - 9th
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Playwriting, Model/Sample Play, Unreliable Characters
Writing Whiz has created a lesson plan for anyone interested in helping students gain a greater appreciation of unreliable narrators and dramatic irony -- tied into the reading of "The Tell-Tale Heart." Included are internet links for teachers to find printable copies of the original story and a play or theatrical version of "The Tell-Tale Heart." Jumping off the idea of an unreliable narrator like the madman in "The Tell-Tale Heart," I have created a lesson where students will pair with others
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6th - 9th
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"The Tale of the Mountain Cat, A Native Story;" [*New Book Trailer]
Check out the New Book Trailer (+13 Rating): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7yE0KDIeo&t=4s
[All profits from this work go to the Homeless.] This is a story about a boastful Mountain Cat who comes into a meadow community and creates a confrontation. It is done in a "Native American" style of legend and story telling. This short story has been incorporated into the novel, "The Legend of Rail Wolf." ["Aids Orphans Remembered"]
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5th - 10th
Creative Writing - Day One: Intro to Creative Writing Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is for this first day of class. It is meant to simply introduce students to creative writing since most of them are unfamiliar with the subject.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Script Writing Scaffold
This is a scaffold for writing a basic script. Ideal for younger learners or learners with additional needs. The file is a word document and can be edited to match particular task.Teachers may use this as a starting point for writing an original script. Alternatively, students can adapt other pieces of writing to the script format.
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5th - 8th
iCan Write an iMovie!
This handout aims to give students an outline for writing their first movie script. Students will be able to write dialogue into the flow chart boxes, and they are encouraged to label each box with the speaker's name.
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3rd - 6th
Richard III | A Play Script for Young Performers | FREE PREVIEW
This is a free preview of the William Shakespeare Play Script - Richard III. The full play script is available for just $4.75 by following the link above.The play script is suitable for ages 9 to 14. Richard III tells the story of Richard – a humpbacked member of the royal family who had a deep desire to be king. However, he was fifth in line to the throne with four close family members ahead of him. The play follows the story of his murderous journey to the top, and his eventual demise to Henry
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4th - 8th
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More Poems for Middle School
It's tough to get kids interested in poetry, but once you do they won't quit!
Here are six poems by kids to serve as accessible models for your students. Among other introductory techniques, choral reading of poetry is a powerful teaching tool, though I left out my scripted versions of these poems to defer to your creativity! Have fun with them!
HEY, if you like these activities, check out my original Poetry for Middle School unit here on TPT! I intend this offering as a free supplement to t
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6th - 8th
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Scene Outline
For aspiring story and play writers to put together a scene outline.
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1st - 6th
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