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Drama literature circles for homeschool
Apple Trouble | Hedgehog and Apple | Fall Craft
Hedgehog is having Apple Trouble!!This craft would be a great addition to all your apple studies during an apple theme unit!This craft was inspired by the book, Apple Trouble, by Ragnhild Scamell. Your students will enjoy making the hedgehog and adding all the things that get stuck to him. The craft is simple and easy to prep and I have included all of the objects that get stuck to him in several different formats.Also included with this craft:All pattern pieces with several options for the pie
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PreK - 2nd
Cyclops: The Monster in the Cave--Readers Theater from The Odyssey
Includes comprehension activity, key, and teacher notes! Liven up your reading curriculum and satisfy the Common Core with this kid-friendly classroom play based on the 9th book of Homer's The Odyssey. Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, "Cyclops" is suitable for reader's theater or stage performance. Use it to introduce the original text, build fluency, and improve comprehension. Pair it with a Percy Jackson novel as part of a literature circle! Or j
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5th - 9th
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Stone Soup Activities
These Stone Soup Activities were inspired by the classic children's folktale. The activities include a generic version of the folktale, or can be used with your favorite version of the story, such as:Stone Soup by Jess StockholmStone Soup by Jon J. MuthStone Soup by Heather ForestThis pack includes the following Stone Soup Activities:Detailed plans including activities and skills covered Re-told version of the Stone Soup folktaleAn 18-piece set of Stone Soup Storyelling Props including: of trave
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PreK - 2nd
Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle for Retelling Stories
Reader's Theater Scripts for Beginning ReadersLooking for an engaging way to retell stories, increase fluency and comprehension? These Reader’s Theater are scripts for beginning readers that are adapted from literature. Students “perform” by reading scripts based on familiar or favorite stories. These Reader’s Theaters require no sets, costumes, props or memorized lines although there are character signs included with these reader’s theaters. Reader’s Theaters are an entertaining and engaging wa
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K - 1st
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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? {Felt Story Set}
Flannel boards are a great tool in teaching visual literacy, narration, sequencing, and comprehension!
This felt story set was inspired by the classic children's picture book, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle.
**Please note, this set comes in flattened PDF files only. If you are looking for the digital felt clip art set to make your own projects, you can find those here: Polar Bear Digital Felt Art
After downloading and printing this felt story set,
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PreK - 1st
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? {Felt Story Set}
Flannel boards are a great tool in teaching visual literacy, narration, sequencing, and comprehension!
This felt story set was inspired by the classic children's picture book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle.
**Please note, this set comes in flattened PDF files only. If you are looking for the digital felt clip art set, you can find those here: Brown Bear and Friends Digital Felt Art.
After downloading and printing this felt story set, you can use th
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PreK - 1st
Spanish Readers' Theater /Ricitos de Oro Obra de teatro
Ricitos de Oro
Divertida obra de teatro para utilizarla en el salón de clases con grupos pequeños.
Otra variedad es que los niños lo hagan individualmente usando marionetas con hojitas y cartoncillo; y así una sola persona interpretar todos los personajes.
A los niños les encanta cambiar la voz para representar los personajes.
He agregado los dibujos de los personajes, escenario y artefactos para agregar mayor diversión. ¡Así que a colorear y prepararse para la presentación de tu teatro del l
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1st - 3rd
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Spanish Readers' Theater/ Caperucita Roja Obra de teatro
Caperucita Roja
Divertida obra de teatro para utilizarla en el salón de clases en grupos pequeños. También puede ser usando marionetas con hojitas y cartoncillo. Y una sola persona interpretar todos los personajes. A los niños les encanta cambiar la voz para representar los personajes. He agregado los dibujos de los personajes, escenario y artefactos para agregar mayor diversión. Yo hago presentaciones para los padres con disfraces y un escenario con todos los artefactos después que lo han ens
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1st - 3rd
DIARY OF ANNE FRANK Play (Acts I and II) Literature Guide
Diary of Anne Frank Play Acts I and IIThis Diary of Anne Frank literature guide for the two-act play is not your run-of-the-mill vocab and questions packet! This guide can be used in completion, or teachers may choose to use certain parts independently. This is a comprehensive study of the play and offers the opportunity to teach and review many ELA benchmarks such as:-Point of View-Theme-Plot-Conflict-Mood-Summarizing-Textual Evidence-Cultural Context-Characterization-Chronological Order-Sym
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7th - 10th
Read Aloud Play: The Newsies--The Newsboy Strike of 1899
Originally published in the March 2015 issue of Scholastic’s Scope magazine, "The Newsies" tells the story of a young immigrant girl who goes to work selling newspapers just before the 1899 New York City newsboy strike in which kids stood up to William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. It's a historically more accurate version than the Disney musical (a completely different story). Suitable for reader's theater or stage production, this historically-accurate, kid-friendly script includes elev
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4th - 7th
Where's Rudolph? A Readers Theater
Looking for a fun readers theater for the holiday season? Your kids will enjoy this original script, as a readers theater or as a skit. This is not too long and not too short for your students. It includes different levels of speaking parts— which should include almost everyone! This is an original readers theater that I created for my own reading group! My students had so much fun with this!What’s the gist? Rudolph is missing and it's Christmas Eve! Yet nobody knows where Rudolph is! Apparen
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2nd - 4th
AP English: Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot Unit Plan Drama Study
This 22 page Unit Plan Drama Study of Samuel Beckett's classic Theater of the Absurd drama Waiting for Godot is designed for AP English (or any accelerated, honors level course). It is best for students who are open to discussion and intriguing questions about the text. Included are: (1) Act 1 Discussion Wkst, (2) Reading Response Quiz #1, (3) Act 2 Discussion Wkst, (4) Reading Response Quiz #2, (5) Socratic Seminar Activity: Questions, Student Chart, Teacher Rubric, (6) Writing Assignment: Assi
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Humphrey the Christmas Camel | Christmas Craft
Humphrey's First ChristmasThis craft was created to go along with the book "Humphrey's First Christmas" by Carol Heyer. If you haven't read this book... you must! It is so heart warming! I love reading this book to my kids every year.... but beware the story will bring tears to your eyes! Included with this craft:All pattern Pieces for the camel with and without detailed edges.Picture of craftMaterials & Instructions pageStory retelling puppet of the camel and his blanket for the kids to c
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PreK - 3rd
Over in the Meadow Book Companion for Spring
This book will take your class on a journey through a meadow...where different animals will be introduced on each page! This set of materials will help to expand your students language and emerge them in lots of fun literacy activities! This companion was designed to be used with the book Over in the Meadow that was illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. The animals in this version are a bit different than the traditional song. Concepts: Sequencing Rhyming Recall Movement-Dramatazation of the animals
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PreK - K, Staff
Also included in: Frog Book Companion Bundle
Nursery Rhymes Printable Shadow Puppets for Children
Download and cut your own puppets to let children stage a shadow puppet play, based on the Nursery Rhymes.This set is based on Nursery Rhymes for children. With the seventeen shadow puppets, children can stage these famous rhymes and songs:– Itsy-Bitsy Spider– Little Miss Muffet– Baa, Baa, Black Sheep– Mary Had a Little Lamb– Little Bo Peep– Jack, Be Nimble– Jack and Jill– Hickory Dickory Dock– Hickety, Pickety– Three Blind Mice– One Two Three Four Five Once I Caught a Fish Alive.The shadow pupp
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PreK - 1st
Arctic Animals Readers Theater
Here's a short, fun and easy readers theater. Great activity when you want to practice reading, but it's that time when you need a little fun. “Friendship” is the theme of this story, which is about a little puffin who is looking for a friend. She meets 5 arctic animals and eventually finds Polar Bear Cub who will be her friend. It is similar to popular pattern stories that kids are so fond of. This readers theater is especially ideal for a small group. But it can easily be modified to suit the
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K - 1st
Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Is it possible that a youngster could lose two sets of parents in the first twelve years of her life? It happened to Willow Chance.
Willow, a dark-skinned 12-year-old middle-schooler with wild curly hair was very young when she was adopted by a sweet couple who had always wanted a child but were never able to have one of their own. Finally, their dreams came true when Willow came into their lives. They could not have been prepared for the child's extreme giftedness. She was indeed a genius. But
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4th - 7th
The Taming of the Shrew Study Guide Packet
The following ten-page study guide provides students guiding questions while they read Shakespeare's comedy "The Taming of the Shrew." The questions vary in difficulty, but they encourage students to not only simply recall comprehension questions about plot but also infer how Shakespeare builds drama and suspense and indirectly characterizes his characters. Other assessed literary concepts include asides, conflict, costume, dramatic irony, dynamic vs. static characterization, foils, imagery, iro
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6th - 12th
Original Drama Script - A cheese sandwich (A short play / Readers' Theatre)
A short play about trying to get a food order right. Surely with all this delicious food to order, they won’t end up with only a cheese sandwich? The play is appropriate for students in 3rd- 6th Grade. The play can be performed in about 7-10 minutes. Along with the play there are discussion questions relating to the play.A Cheese Sandwich is appropriate for guided reading rotations and for an assembly presentation or performance.
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3rd - 9th
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The Tempest Study Guide Packet
The following ten-page study guide provides students guiding questions while they read Shakespeare's romantic comedy "The Tempest." The questions vary in difficulty, but they encourage students to not only simply recall comprehension questions about plot but also infer how Shakespeare builds drama and suspense and indirectly characterizes his characters. Other assessed literary concepts include conflict, costume, diction, dramatic irony, dynamic vs. static characterization, foils, foreshadowing,
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7th - 12th
Abridged and Modified Romeo and Juliet Side-by-Side Text and Questions: Act III
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 el
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9th - 10th
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Ransom of Red Chief, A Script for Easy Reading Hi/Lo
Included in Ransom of Red Chief-vocabulary study-pre-reading activities -comprehension questions -suggestions for projects-quiz-answer key -student answer pages-synopsis of the story-suggestions for teacher useThis readers’ theater adaptation of “The Ransom of Red Chief” adheres wholly to the plot, setting, characterization, and themes of the original story from which it is adapted. It can be used with both large and small groups in language arts classes. Students in regular, remedial, gifted,
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Classic Short Story Scripts for Easy Reading Bundle 2
Death at a Dinner Party: A Murder Mystery Kit; Mystery Dinner, Clue Party
Death at a Dinner Party: A Murder Mystery Party KitA group of family friends have come together for a Dinner Party when...there is a murder! Can you and your guests solve the mystery? The party is broken into three segments in which guests are provided clues and dialogue cues to learn more about 'whodunit'. A murder will occur during Round 2, and guests will have to share clues in order to solve the mystery! The kit contains host instructions, guest instructions, clues, name tags, character list
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Wizard of Oz and the Perseverance Road - Whole Group Reader's Theater
This is a Reader's Theater for the entire class. It was designed to be read or used as a play - depending on the time you have. There are 18 speaking parts but opportunities to double up or expand them allow you to fit it to your class/group. It is based on the Wizard of Oz. In the script, Dorothy is the type of girl who always gives up when things get tough until a tornado comes and whisks her away to the Land of Oz She’s ready to give up there until the munchkins volunteer to take her to see t
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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