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Drama Common Core CCRA.R.10 resources
Fairy Tales reader's theater, activities, writing, plays 1st grade 2nd grade
This fairy tales unit includes reader's theater scripts or plays and writing activities, great for 1st grade and 2nd grade students!This fairy tale unit will be engaging and fun for your students! Three different reader's theater scripts are included along with puppets and many activities, including writing. This fairy tale resource includes reader’s theater scripts, for...Goldilocks and the Three BearsThree Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk.The plays or scripts can be used many different way
Fairy Tales 2 reader's theater, activities, writing, plays, puppets
This fairy tale resource has a ton of fun activities for your students. This resource includes a fairy tale reader’s theater scripts for Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and The Frog Prince. This resource also includes many activities that meet the common core including writing. The plays or scripts can be used many different ways, keep them in a center, or use for guided reading instruction with an emphasis on fluency and expression. Children love to act out the parts and rereading the parts
Thanksgiving Reader's Theater or Thanksgiving Play with 26 Speaking Parts
Thanksgiving Reader's Theater! Gobble It Up! is a Thanksgiving play script or reader's theater for students to read aloud or act out. The setting is the first Thanksgiving, and the Pilgrims and the Native Americans are coming together for a three-day feast. Mr. Turkey Lurkey has to take cover or become Thanksgiving dinner. It is a comedy that will make you laugh. There are 26 short speaking parts, so everyone can be involved! It takes approximately 20-25 minutes to be performed. No costumes ne
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities Bundle Grades 3 - 6
Wax Museum | Biography Book Report, Display, and Dress Up Like a Famous Person
This Wax Museum Project for Kids has 3 parts: Writing a Biography Book Report Research Paper, Creating a Display, & the best part...Dressing up for the Wax Museum! Students & Parents just love this Biography Project Elementary (Perfect for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th grade & middle school)Looking for a Creative History Project Idea for your History Classroom? Look no further!This download includes all you need for a successful Wax Museum:- Wax Museum Project Description- Research Notes (2 Pa
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2nd - 8th
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Hamlet Unit Bundle - Differentiated & Scaffolded Lessons for Grade 10, 11 & 12
This Hamlet Lesson Bundle includes everything you need to teach Hamlet to Grade 10, 11 and 12 students! Upperclassmen are interested in this play because of its unique plot, but it also has many unique applications in discussions of grief and mental illness. Materials have been differentiated and scaffolded to teach remedial students and include challenge questions for AP® and Pre-AP® students as well. All assignments in this resource are also available as interactive Google Slides or Google For
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10th - 12th
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Julius Caesar Unit: Bundle PLUS of Activities and Abridged Readings
This complete 5+ week unit for the drama Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare can be printed, used digitally, or a combination of the two. The resource includes a print ready PDF as well as Google Drive versions (Docs, Slides, Forms, etc.) of all of the materials.Students will read abridged versions of key scenes in Acts 1-5 and summaries of the rest of each act, plus engage in high interest activities to reinforce key concepts. Also included are lessons for introducing the play, making nonficti
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10th
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The Crucible Quiz Bundle (Acts 1-4)
This bundle contains individual objective quizzes for Acts 1-4 of The Crucible. Each quiz is comprised of comprehension- and analysis-based questions to help you assess students' understandings of the play. This download includes PDFs to ensure compatibility across devices, as well as editable Word Docs that you can alter to meet your classes' needs!Each quiz also includes a section on character descriptions or quotation identifications to assess reading comprehension and understanding of charac
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8th - 12th
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Much Ado About Nothing Unit Bundle - Print and Digital Access Included!
Here is everything you need to teach Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing to 9-12 grade students! His comedy is a favorite with my students because of the eavesdropping and contrast between romantic relationships. The bundle includes the following resources: 4 core themes which students study and revisit in preparation for the test and other assessments6 slideshows of Guided Reading Notes, (one introductory and one per act)Printable student study guide for notesCreative and engaging assessments
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9th - 12th
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Abridged and Modified Macbeth Side-by-Side Text and Questions / 60 pgs
Macbeth was the first Shakespeare play I ever taught, and it helped me appreciate how much fun your students can have while acting out a drama in the classroom.However, this experience also helped me understand what aspects of a Shakespearean drama frustrate students and teachers. Some of the characters are confusing, some scenes do not advance the plot or are not school appropriate, and some of the language is dense.For these reasons, I created an abridged and modified version of Macbeth. Every
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9th - 12th
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The Hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher—Radio Play Drama Analysis & The Twilight Zone
Students will read and analyze the script of Lucille Fletcher's radio play: The Hitchhiker (also spelled The Hitch-Hiker). Have them listen to the drama on the Orson Welles Show to understand the impact that music and sound effects have on a play. Students will love to compare the audio version of The Hitchhiker to the episode of The Twilight Zone Rod Serling adapted for television. (The gender swap of the main character makes for a great discussion.)In this dreadful, ominous tale, students will
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Hitchhiker Unit — Radio Drama by Lucille Fletcher
Black History Month Skits & Readers Theater Plays with Scripts 4th and 5th Grade
Are you looking for exciting Black History Month skits or readers theater plays that connects with kids using pop culture, have scripts with a variety of roles for all students, and teaches history in an engaging way? Then this is it! Readers theater = better comprehension!There is no better way to teach students critical reading skills than with reader's theater. As they perform and learn about the various historical heroes, students will improve their skills by:- connecting with the text- lear
The Crucible Unit Bundle (130+ pages, 200 questions) / Google Ready!
Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a complex and fascinating allegory. It's a staple in many American literature classrooms. In designing a unit for this text, I wanted to cover a variety of standards and skills students master as they read and act out the drama. If you were to purchase all of these resources, you would spend $28, but with this bundle, you save $5, which is like getting two resources for free! All together, that's 130+ pages and 200 questions! To help design the unit, I have includ
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11th - 12th
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Abridged and Modified Romeo and Juliet Side-by-Side Text and Questions Bundle
In preparing to teach freshman for the first time in many years, I cracked in to William Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet. While this is among one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, and while I enjoy teaching drama, I found the version presented in the textbook to be inaccessible.So I got to work creating a side-by-side version of Romeo and Juliet with the text on the left and guiding questions and activities on the right. In an effort to make the text more accessible for students, I eli
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9th - 10th
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Macbeth Unit Bundle (for Modern Translation)
This unit bundle is designed for teaching Macbeth using a modern translation of the text (such as No Fear Shakespeare). All products come with an answer key to help with lesson planning. Additionally, all materials are available in two forms: (1) as editable Word Docs that you can alter to best meet your students' needs, and (2) as PDFs to ensure compatibility across devices. This resource is also great for distance, online, or hybrid classrooms!The contents of the unit are Common-Core aligned,
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9th - 12th
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Sherlock Holmes | The Red-Headed League | Readers Theater | Short Story Unit
Immerse your students in the intriguing world of Sherlock Holmes with our captivating Readers Theater Script for "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Join Mr. Jabez Wilson as he navigates an unusual encounter with The Red-Headed League, only to find that Holmes and Watson uncover a situation far beyond a harmless prank. With 9 engaging reading parts – Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Jabez Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, Mr. Ross, Peter Jones, Mr. Me
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5th - 12th
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Script Writing, Puppet Making, and Dramatization Project: Print and Digital
Hands on reading, writing, speaking, listening, project your students will love. Now available as a Digital TpT Activity for Google Classroom and Distance Learning. Great for the classroom or family activity. Easy instructions that become a fun adventure for Remote Learning or Home Schooling. The lesson gradually releases your students/kids to recount a short story by rewriting it in script form, making a puppet, and then acting out the drama. Teachers will have the option of allowing students
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Cinderella and Culture Bundle: A Multicultural Fairytale Reading Unit
Hamlet Project - Creative Newspaper Final Assignment for Shakespeare's Play
Hamlet Project - Newspaper Assignment is a fun and creative assignment where students will be given the opportunity to create a newspaper called "The Denmark Times", in which they act as journalists living in Hamlet's world. This project would be an excellent final assessment for a unit on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, with the bonus of exposing students to some of the skills and terms used in journalism. This ready-to-use resource includes a PowerPoint presentation outlining the proje
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10th - 12th
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Black History Month Skit and Readers Theater Play with Script 4th and 5th Grade
Are you looking for an exciting Black History Month skit or readers theater play that connects with kids using pop culture, has a script with a variety of roles for all students, and teaches history in an engaging way? Then this it! Readers theater = better reading comprehension! There is no better way to teach students critical reading skills than with reader's theater. As they perform and learn about the various historical heroes, students will improve their skills by:- connecting with the tex
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4th - 6th
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Romeo and Juliet Bundle - Reading Guide, Quizzes, Test, Close Readings (Google)
This low-prep bundle covering Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare contains all the formative and summative assessments teachers need to assess general reading comprehension, support the development of close reading analysis skills, and reduce take-home grading responsibilities. Included are five multiple choice quizzes, each covering a single act; five reading guides, each covering a single act; twenty-five close reading worksheets, each covering a single scene; an end-of-unit test; and answ
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9th - 12th
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Introducing Shakespeare Digital Escape Room
Fun and engaging with NO PREP WORK FOR YOU! - introduce your students to Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare's biography, the language he helped create, and basic information about a drama's structure, and The Globe Theatre! This digital escape room provides necessary background knowledge for students before beginning any reading of a Shakespeare play. Students are magically transported back to Elizabethan England in a quest to save Shakespeare's life by taking on a role in his play A Midsu
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: 9th / 10th Semester Unit! 4 Full units included!
Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) Tragedy Unit
If I had to choose only one classic piece of literature that everyone should study, it would be Sophocles' Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex). This ancient Greek tragedy is the model against which all other tragedies are compared, from Shakespeare onward. Aristotle himself lauded it as the quintessential example of the genre. Today, the play raises questions about the place of tragedy in modern life.This in-depth unit plan is based on the various activities I created when teaching Oedipus in differe
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11th - 12th
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Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare in 30 (abridged Shakespeare)
This version of Taming of the Shrew is part of my Shakespeare in 30 collection. Each abridged Shakespeare play in this series has been adapted for teens to tackle in a half an hour. This abridged Taming of the Shrew is perfect for ELA, ESL, and Shakespeare camps. This abridged Shakespeare play has been used with:✅ Reader’s Theatre (1-2 class periods)✅ Staged Readings (1 week)✅ Full production (3-4 weeks) The Shakespeare in 30 collection is perfect for students in grades 6-12 studying William Sha
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Shakespeare in 30 - All Plays & Guides (abridged Shakespeare plays)
READERS THEATER CHRISTMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL SCRIPT: CHILLY THE SNOWMAN
This fun winter Readers’ Theater script introduces grades 5-8 students to the TRUE tale of a much loved Christmas character. A lot of fake news surrounds the legend of Frosty the Snowman - including his name - and this amusing script will reveal the real deal. In a merry morality tale, students will learn how Chilly, a cold-hearted snowman, transformed thanks to the kindness of an elf child. This humorous 10 page script (+ questions and seasonal activities) will give students practice in reading
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5th - 8th
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AP English: Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie Unit Plan
This is a very approachable play for students to be introduced to reading dramatic literature from a literary critical perspective. It's equally challenging for an AP English or any accelerated English course as well as a remedial reading course for struggling readers. Williams' play is in contemporary language and presents characters and themes that students can relate to. I've included the stage version of the play for you to use. In this unit, students will read the play (either outside of cl
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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