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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "A Lesson Learned" Poetry Theater: A Poem in Two Voices

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "A Lesson Learned", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework! and If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a skydiver...
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Activity
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Ish!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Ish!," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child debates eating fish with his grandmother.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Samantha Cinderella Scott" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "Samantha Cinderella Scott," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Kenn Nesbitt in When the Teacher Isn't Looking, students will dramatize a poem about a doctor telling a child that a shot isn't...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "How to Torture Your Teacher" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "How to Torture Your Teacher," students will participate in a poem in nine voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in No More Homework! No More Tests!, students will dramatize a poem that gives advice to students about how to...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "How to Torture Your Students" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "How to Torture Your Students," students will participate in a poem in nine voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Kids Ruled the School, teachers are given advice for how to torment their students.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Get Out of Bed!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Get Out of Bed!," learners will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Diane Z. Shore in If Kids Ruled the School, students will dramatize a poem about a child who pretends to be sick so that he doesn't have to...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Bad Baxter Barton" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "Bad Baxter Barton," students will participate in a dramatization of a poem. Adapted from the poem "Bad Baxter Barton" originally published in Tall Tales of the Wild West (And a Few Short Ones) by Eric Ode, students will assume roles...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "My Violin" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "My Violin," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child who causes problems at home whenever he plays his violin.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Stop Sniffling!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Stop Sniffling!," young scholars will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child who learns the importance of blowing his nose.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Out of Control" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Out of Control," students will participate in a poem in eleven voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a remote that mysteriously flips through...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "The Kindergarden Concert" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "The Kindergarden Concert," young scholars will participate in a poem in eight voices. Adapted from the poem by Robert Pottle in I'm Allergic to School, students will dramatize a poem about a concert that a kindergarten class performs.
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Activity
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Turn Off the Tv!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Turn Off the TV!," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize watching television with their parents.
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Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "I Went to the Doctor" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "I Went to the Doctor," students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Kenn Nesbitt in The Aliens Have Landed, students will dramatize a poem about a sick child who goes to the doctor and gets a shot.
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Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "I Call First!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "I Call First!," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Ted Scheu in If Kids Ruled the School, students will dramatize a poem about a student who wants to be the first in everything but learns...
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Activity
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "My New Pet" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "My New Pet," students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in Miles of Smiles, students will dramatize a poem about a child tries to make a choice about which pet to buy.
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Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "My Doggy Ate My Homework" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "My Doggy Ate My Homework," students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Dave Crawley in If Kids Ruled the School, students will dramatize a poem about a student who tells his teacher that his dog cooked...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "My Dog Has Got No Manners" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "My Dog Has Got No Manners," students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in Rolling in the Aisles, students will dramatize a poem about a child who complains about his dog's bad behavior to...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Bad Hair Day" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Bad-Hair Day," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Linda Knaus in If Kids Ruled the School, students will dramatize a poem about how one child's messy hair interrupts the class.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "My Noisy Brother" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "My Noisy Brother," students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework! students will dramatize a poem about a child who imitates the annoying sounds that his brother...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "The Teachers' Show" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "The Teachers' Show," students will participate in a poem in eight voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a zany talent show for teachers.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Readers' Theatre for Kapiti Plain

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This readers' theatre of Verna Aardema's Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain crosses the curriculum to incorporate language arts, social studies, and science objectives. Students will become familiar with the text of the story and then...
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Aaron Shepherd

Aaron Shepherd: The Legend of Slappy Hooper

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Aaron Shepherd: The Legend of Slappy Hooper
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Fiction Teachers: Classroom Theater

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lots of resources for those who want to do classroom theater. Contains scripts, lesson plans, and a background essay.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reader's Theatre With Jan Brett

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, learners will interact with the book Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett and create a Readers Theatre performance. Students will engage in interacting with story elements during before, during, and post-reading activities.

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