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Water Cycle Voice Thread
Students understand the water cycle through a role playing activity. In this water cycle lesson, students become familiar with the water cycle through a play about the water cycle. Students illustrate their parts and create a VoiceThread...
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Writing Drama-Trying Your Hand at being a Playwright
Fifth graders chart the elements of drama. In this performing arts lesson, 5th graders discuss the role of a playwrite, practice doing some Reader's Theatre scripts, write a paragraph about a problem between two people, and perform...
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Final Performance of a Play
Second graders study theatre by designing a play, studying actors, and work in partners to create a story to perform. In this theatre study lesson, 2nd graders discuss theatre as live theatre, television, film, and radio. Students act...
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Incorporating Literature into Social Studies Teaching and Learning
Students engage in a study of incorporating literature into the Social Studies classroom. They review a variety of literature sources and then create a bulletin board with the information. Then students practice using the Reader's...
Penguin Books
A Teacher's Guide to the Signet and Plume Editions of the Screenplay Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun
Although they may be based on a novel, a screenplay is not a novel and is read differently. This teacher's guide to Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun teaches readers how to read a screenplay, analyze camera instructions, and...
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Lights, Camera, Action!
Students participate in an alternative reading assessment using a video camera and script. In this alternative reading lesson, students work as a group to perform their reading story. students memorize their lines and film their play.
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Reading the Play
Do figures of speech enhance a play or story? In small groups, learners locate and describe figures of speech they find while reading a reader's theater play. After making predictions, they describe how the figures of speech make the...
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"Mind Reader" Math Trick
Young scholars perform a math-based card trick and explain the concepts behind the trick. They video tape classmates performing the trick. Finally, they write a paragraph explaining the trick.
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Nature’s Fury—Myths and Drama
Fifth graders explore the elements of theatre. In this dramatic performances lesson, 5th graders discuss the structural elements of theatre and dramatize "The Origins of the Season," an explanation myth.
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Happy April Fool's Day!
Grab students' attention with these lesson and activity ideas on April Fool's Day.
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Natural Phenomena That Change the Earth's Surface
Students explore a natural phenomenon. For this science lesson, students research a natural phenomenon and create a script about that phenomenon. Students act out their scripts for the class.
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On Thinning Ice: An eco-theatre production about climate change
Students investigate the causes and possible consequences of climate change in the north, and realize their choices and actions can help reduce climate change. Some of the skills involved in the lesson plan are discussion, synthesis,...
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Chinese Mythology
Seventh graders examine creation myths of China, discuss how myths reflect Chinese culture, differentiate between Chinese and Greek creation myths, and explore place of myths in Chinese culture as compared to their place in other...
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Women's Right To Vote
Fifth graders explore the history of women's right to vote and identify two of the leaders of the suffrage movement, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. After completing readings and discussions, they write an article for the newspaper about...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Readers Theatre
Contains plans for four lessons where learners put on a Reader's Theatre. Students write scripts, perform in groups, and practice using their voice to assume characters. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
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NWT Literacy Council
Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Reader's Theatre [Pdf]
Reader's Theatre is explained in this manual and a number of scripts for children's stories and rhymes are included. There are two scripts in other languages - Dogrib and French.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Readers' Theatre
Explore the world of Readers' Theatre with this online resource. This site features guides and scripts.
Aaron Shepherd
Tips on Scripting by Aaron Shepard
This tutorial explains the scripting process for reader's theater activities.
Aaron Shepherd
Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theater Page
If you're looking for a perfect combination of education and fun, here are resources for reader's theater including the acclaimed series of free scripts Reader's Theater Editions'-all from children's author Aaron Shepard.
Other
Fiction Teachers: Classroom Theater
Lots of resources for those who want to do classroom theater. Contains scripts, lesson plans, and a background essay.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Zoom Playhouse
This PBS kids site features dozens of short plays that have been performed on the children's television series "Zoom." Includes short scripts for skits which students can perform together, and lists of props to include in the performance.