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Free drama teacher manuals
Why Use Drama? Reader's Theater Tips, Strategies, & Teacher's Guide
This informative article provides tips and strategies to make the most of your reader's theater or classroom play activities. "Why Use Drama?" reveals some of the research about how the reader's theater model builds fluency and comprehension. Use it to defend against all the text-book pushers out there! "There's More Than One Way to Produce a Play" maps out six performance/production strategies. "The Delicate Nature of Assessing Drama" offers tips on teaching students to self-assess and discuss
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3rd - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Talent Show- information form and audition sheet
Informational sheets about talent show auditions, rehearsals, and performances. It's in Word, so you can edit the document to customize it for your dates, times, and your school's info.
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Drama Class Play Production Rubric FREE!
Here is a drama tool for teachers to use with a class production. It is fully editable and includes what a teacher can expect from students--acting, blocking, cooperative learning, willingness to be directed memorization, etc. Forty years ago, I directed my first class play. Prior to this job, I directed plays outside of the classroom, but this was different! I had no idea how to grade the students for their participation in the production. At first, I was naive and thought the students wo
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Decoding Skill Development for Teachers
Decoding is an essential skill for reading, and it is one of the first skills that children learn when they are learning to read.Here are some specific ways that speech and drama teachers and English teachers can use decoding skills in their teaching:
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Arts Integration We're Live! Radio Theater 101 Drama Teacher Guide
NOTE: SAMPLE!!! Are you ready to shake up your classroom and make learning an adventure? Pick up this drama integration based sample of We're Live! Radio Theater #101. Picture this: your students donning audio lab coats as they journey into the depths of rainforests through the magic of radio theater. Imagine them traveling back in time during social studies to witness pivotal moments firsthand, or seeing numbers come alive in vibrant dialogue during math lessons. Get ready to explore the excit
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Free Directing Tips for Producing A Class Play
FREE! Have you decided to direct a play with your class, but you need a little advice on how to be successful? Is it different directing elementary students from secondary?The answer is yes it is. I want you and your students to be happy when the curtain closes.Do you have questions such as: How to audition? Block? What about costumes? Do I teach my students to bow? This is a FREE product with twelve pieces of advice for you from my own experiences of thirty-eight years teaching and directing
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3rd - 6th
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Play Directing Tips for Beginning and Advanced Theater Stage Makeup
STAGE MAKEUP! You have decided to jump into the world of directing a theatrical production. The minute you make this decision, a barrage of questions from various people involved on the production come flying toward you. Frazzled by all them, you nearly give up before you've started. You need answers and advice--fast! Never fear--I am here to save you. I have come to your rescue. You see, I've been in your position. Forty years ago, I directed my first production, "The Miracle Worker" (a he
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12th, Adult Education
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Feeling Faces Prompt Page for Drama Warm-ups
A very useful prompt page to add to your Drama teacher folder.
We've all experienced moments when we're stuck searching for more feeling words during warm-ups- well not any more!
Use this page when working on facial expression and extend it by working on 'feeling hands' and physical characterization.
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PreK - 8th
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“Quick Guide to Theatre” for Elementary Fine Arts Teachers
This FREE 16-page resource provides practical help for Elementary teachers (and any teachers) who would like to bring Theatre Arts into their curriculum and performance programs. Written from years of acting, directing and technical theatre experience, the Quick Guide to Theatre addresses auditions, rehearsals, technical theatre, house management, the craft of acting and more.
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K - 5th
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Performing Arts - MODULE I (345 Teaching Slides)
Performing Arts - MODULE I (345 Teaching Slides)Poetry, Prose, Drama, Literature
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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No Fear Shakespeare
Side-by-side NFS translation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
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10th - 12th
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SUPER EASY Face Paint Diagrams for Musicals/Plays/Programs - Elementary Music
Face painting made easy! With 20 musicals under my belt, I have created this resource of 23 of my face painting designs. These diagrams are attractive and easy to pull together in minimal time. Also included are two practice pages that you can use to create your own designs to add to the resource.
Most of my characters are from Teresa Jennings and John Jacobson musicals. Check the preview in the pictures available to see the table of contents.
Requests for more? Send me a message!
If your stu
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PreK - 6th
Excel sheet Time Table for 2024 New year 100% editable and FREE for KIDS xlsx
Excel sheet Time Table for 2024 New year 100% editable and FREE for KIDS xlsx
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Quick Reference for California Theater Arts Standards
I made this resource for myself to make it easier to scroll through the California Theater Arts Standards. I thought it might be useful for other art teachers in California! It has, from left to right, grades Pre-K to 6, but if there’s any interest in other grades/standards, I’d be willing to make more. Source: Theater Arts Standards, California Visual and Performing Arts Standards (https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/vpastandards.pdf) Improvements:- Horizontal layout: Instead of the verti
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PreK - 6th
Aistear Guide
What is Aistear?"Aistear is the curriculum framework for children from birth to six years in Ireland... learning and developing through interactions and play."-NCCAThis is a free 2 page document, giving some more information on the the content of my Monthly Aistear Plans.Included:Types of PlayStructure of the daily play hourLinks to LiteracyAistear ResourcesIntegrated LearningAlso included is a sample observations sheet for assessment.You can find my other Aistear resources here.If you find this
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Aistear Dramatic Play Yearlong Mega Bundle
No Fear Shakespeare
Side-by-side NFS translation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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9th - 12th
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Audition for Play Production- Permission slip and information form
This is the third and fourth page in my audition packet. The first is in the audition information sheet. It's a word document, so you can edit it with necessary information that pertains to your school and your production.
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No Fear Shakespeare
Side-by-side NFS translation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
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8th - 11th
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Performance Approaches to Shakespeare - sample chapters 1 & 2
Peruse chapters 1 & 2. Then purchase book in hardcopy or .pdf form from my website: https://www.lulu.com/shop/laurie-swigart/performance-approaches-to-shakespeare/paperback/product-zp77q5.html?q=performance+approaches+to+shakespeare&page=1&pageSize=4
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Whiz Learners Phonics-Speech & Drama Teaching Tool Kit (Free Sample)
The Whiz Learners Phonics-Speech & Drama Teaching Tool Kit provides you with comprehensive and customised lessons to enrich your child’s reading and drama skills.
It covers the 3 types of decoding strategies that help beginning readers with the oral equivalent of a written word, amalgamating phonic knowledge and sight-word knowledge as well as fundamental aspects in drama performance, etiquette, concentration exercises, posture, breathing, role-play, tableaux, choral & poetry recitatio
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PreK - K
No Fear Shakespeare
Side-by-side NFS translation of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
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10th - 12th
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Theater Safety Info & Resources
Rational and Purpose of Resource:The Department of Labor defines safety culture as “consisting of shared beliefs, practices, and attitudes that exist at an establishment.” This is the first and foremost important thing any sponsor, supervisor, director, and teacher of theater should establish when working in any setting where there is risk involved with those participating in theater activities. The purpose of this resource is to provide a guide for all educators, students, staff, and volunteers
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Hands-On Learning Guide for PreK, Kindergarten, Homeschool, and First Grade
Are you interested in making your classroom or homeschool day more hands-on? Well, look no further! Here are a few tips, tricks, and ideas to help you begin today!
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PreK - 1st
Spring flowers flannel story patterns
Printables Spring flowers flannel story patterns
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PreK - 1st, Staff
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