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Drama Common Core W.6.3 resources
Diary of Anne Frank Play - Student-Ready Complete Packet
Diary of Anne Frank Student-Ready Packet is an attractively-designed ready-to-hand-out resource based on the play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It is aligned with ELA Standards, focusing most specifically on these skills:*analysis through citing textual evidence; drawing inferences*determining theme/central idea; summarizing*analyzing dialogue *determining word meanings; connotation*analyzing differences in points of view*writing arguments, explanatory text, and narratives-------------
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6th - 9th
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Monsters Are Due on Maple Street – Activities w/Theme Essay - Print & DIGITAL
Monsters Are Due on Maple Street – These standards-aligned resources focus on vocabulary, plot details, characterization, and theme for Rod Serling's science fiction teleplay. Now includes a PRINT and DIGITAL version! Students dig deep into the text to provide evidence and practice close reading skills. Includes two different differentiated writing assignments with convenient grading tools.To access the DIGITAL version, you will find:--a PDF with links to each of the resources--directions for u
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6th - 9th
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Diary of Anne Frank Play - DIGITAL Student Packet for Google
Diary of Anne Frank Play DIGITAL Packet is an attractively-designed ready-to-use paperless resource based on the play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Great for your one-to-one classroom or remote teaching! It is aligned with ELA Standards, most specifically CCSS RL8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, and W.8.1, 8.2, 8.3.:--analysis through citing textual evidence; drawing inferences--theme/central idea; summarizing--analyzing dialogue--determining word meanings; connotation--analyzing differences in poin
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6th - 9th
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Fairy Tale Lesson Plan Bundle
This lesson plan bundle—one of my all-time favorite ELA units to teach—contains activities designed to generate enthusiasm and skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and performing. Read on for notes regarding grade level usage. And see the Preview for Table of Contents, Standards correlations, and sample materials.
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I hope you enjoy my favorite unit!
Cynthia
The unit bundle includes the following, totaling over 100 pages
Storytelling with Rubrics | Middle School Writing | Creative Writing
You and your students will love this combination of creative writing, public speaking, and group collaboration! Plus, prepare your students, as self-directed learners, to be highly organized, well-planned, and how to work cooperatively in groups. This student-centered fun mini-unit resource is included in a bundle! Student ♥ Engagement Bundle of Language Arts Lessons for Middle and High SchoolAdaptable for all age groups - is this standards-based ELA mini-unit, a week of lessons culminate in an
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6th - 9th
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Write a TV Show Narrative Writing Pre Assessment Fun Writing Activity
Want to keep students engaged while practicing their writing? This high-interest writing activity for upper elementary will have students writing their own television episodes. Great for whole class, small groups, early finishers, end of the year, writing assessments, or narrative writing review! Helps reinforce narrative writing skills while teaching genre components for comedy, mystery, and drama. Includes additional resources to tie into your lesson to encourage students to read different gen
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3rd - 6th
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READERS' THEATER UNIT: READING & SCRIPT WRITING grades 5 6 7 8
Want three weeks of fun, no-prep drama or ELA lessons? In this 30% off Readers' Theater activities unit, students read two humorous scripts, answer questions and activities, and watch a slideshow. After absorbing the tips in the 38 slide presentation, they write their own 4-6 page scripts and read them to their admiring fellow students. All you have to do is photocopy the PDFs, or post them to Google Classroom, and let the fun begin! A minimal prep skills development board game will add to the e
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5th - 8th
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Theater Improv Warm-Ups and Games FOR EVERYONE
Young people LOVE theater improvisation, and so will you. Improv can help you create a cohesive class culture, spark creative writing, and make your students 100% engaged!Using this 4-page handout, you can explore many Improv WARM-UPS, EXERCISES and GAMES with your students - no previous improv experience required. The first page can turn into an easy anchor chart of what skills are necessary for improv (and serves as great justification for using improv in your classroom - these are important
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
Emergency Sub Plan! Beginning Acting| Character Analysis
This one to two day low prep lesson focuses on a particular acting exercise--character analysis. It is created for an introduction to theater or beginning acting class. Students view a segment of a play or musical (filmed live if possible), use the questions provided to write a short analysis, (short expository writing) and write about a character of their choosing. Need an emergency lesson or substitute? This is one I used many times when I was in a fix. This product can be used with any p
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7th - 9th
Writing a Play Graphic Organizer and Outline
Are you having a hard time teaching the steps of writing a play? This printable graphic organizer is perfect to help students organize their thoughts and plan for their playscript. This file includes a fully EDITABLE graphic organizer and outline.Get the whole bundle now.How to write a play PowerPoint, Graphic Organizer, and Outline.What's included?a PDF filean editable PowerPoint Graphic OrganizerOutlineIf you're an elementary/middle school ELA teacher, you MUST check out those interactive Powe
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4th - 6th
Pandora's Box - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a small group reader's theater for 4 students. It is a Greek legend about how trouble came into the world via Pandora's Box. In the script, Zeus is angry with Prometheus and Epimetheus because they gave man fire. He chains Prometheus to a rock and then makes a plan to punish Epimetheus as well. First he has Hephaestus make him a new daughter and names her Pandora. Then he introduces them to each other and suggests they marry. Epimetheus knows there must be a trap but falls in love. They
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Fairy Tales for Small Group Reader's Theater - Book One
My name is Melanie Whitesides but my store name is Wonbyone. One of the things I am passionate about is Reader's Theater. It is a fun way for my students to improve on their fluency. In a world where reading is pushed so hard on students that many are losing their love of reading it is IMPORTANT to give them opportunities to read that are fun. Reader's Theater does this. In this package I have placed 6 Reader's Theaters. They are: The Brennan Town Musicians, Cinderella, The Frog Prince, Rumpelst
The Boston Tea Party - Historical Small Group Reader's Theater
This script was written for 4 students. It was written to teach or reinforce a lesson about the Boston Tea Party of 1773. In the script, The students are having a test today on the Boston Tea Party. Everyone has studied except Alex. He didn’t think he needed to because he already knew about regular tea parties. But the Boston Tea Party was a protest by the colonies against the British Tea Act and NOT a real tea party. Chad, Rose, and Sarah tell him all about it and how the Boston Tea Party led t
Clever Coyote - Native American Reader's Theater
This Reader's Theater is for 4 students. It is a Comanche legend about how clever coyote saved the buffalo. In the script, A long time ago a monster came and stole all the buffalo overnight. He took them and locked them up in his mountain cave. Coyote called all animals and people together to discuss what they should do. They came up with a plan to give a pet to the small boy who lived with the monster and, at the right time, the pet would set the buffalo free. They sent a mouse and then a bird
The True Story of the Headless Horseman - Small Group Reader's Theater
This small group reader's theater was written for 3 students and for Halloween. It is based on the original ghost story and not based on Washington Irving's story. Again, the tale that follows is the true tale of the Headless Horseman and one that Washington Irving used to write the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In the script, a student has asked the narrator to prove they know how to tell a story by telling them one. In honor of Halloween the narrator chooses a scary one. So, the narrator begins a s
Rumpelstiltskin - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a small group reader's theater is for 4 students. In the script - a miller brags to the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. She cannot actually do this and a little man appears and offers to do the work for her. On the third day she has nothing to pay the little man with so she promises her first child. When the little man comes to get the child, the queen begs for a chance to keep it. The little man gives her three days to figure out what his name is. There is a writing pro
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow OR the Headless Horseman - Small Group R.T.
This script was written for four students and it could be used at Halloween. I wrote it as an extension for students who are reading Washington Irving's story. In the script, A lot of the people in the village of Sleepy Hollow have been invited to Farmer Van Tassel’s home for a party. Some of the villagers gather together to gossip about the schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane. He wants to marry Katrina Van Tassel but people think it may be for her money. Brom Bones also wants to marry Katrina and ha
Drama Lesson| St. Patricks Day| Creative Writing| Playwriting Monologue
Have a little leprechaun fun! This lesson focuses on a play-writing exercise--the monologue and beginning acting using a St. Patrick's Day theme. Students select an object indicative of St. Patrick's Day (which the teacher provides from this lesson) and write a monologue speaking as the object. Then, they design the object on their own paper and perform their monologue. Students don't even realize they are studying play-writing. Just copy and go! This lesson was created for a creative dramatics
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Drama Class St. Patrick's Day Readers Theater Creative Writing Folk Tale
Bundle of Creative Story Prompt Flashcards and Writing Templates for Year
BUNDLE of THEMED Story Writing tools- Graphic Organizers and Prompt Flashcards⭐All you need for students to practice writing creative stories over the year and to ease through the writing process⭐ Great for creative writing centers.Included are 5 themes and for each theme are:•23 character idea flashcards•23 setting idea flashcards•23 problem idea flashcards•Story writing template with primary lines•Story writing template (rough and good draft)•Individual student word bankCan be adapted for grad
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K - 6th
Beware the Bear Lake Monster! Small Group Reader's Theater
This Reader's Theater is for 4 students. It is about a Utah tall tale - the Bear Lake Monster. In the script, Izzik went to Bear Lake Utah on a camping trip last weekend and thinks he may have seen the Bear Lake Monster. The monster is a Utah folk tale and the other students want to know more about it. Clare knows about it so she and Izzik tell them. By the end of the script Fatima is not interested in seeing the Bear Lake Monster but Luis is. There is a short writing assignment afterwards askin
The Princess and the Pea - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a small group reader's theater is for 4 students. In the script - A queen wants only the best for her son the prince. Now that he is old enough this means she wants a REAL princess for him. A real princess is beautiful, smart, and sensitive. The prince has traveled everywhere looking for one but every princess he meets has something wrong. Then, there is a dark and stormy night and a girl shows up. She claims to be a true princess and the queen decides to test her. She puts a pea under t
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3rd - 12th
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The Children's Blizzard! - The Blizzard of 1888 Small Group Reader's Theater
This reader's theater was written for four students. It is based on an incident that happened over 125 years ago. There was a teacher who managed to save every one of her students during the blizzard by leading them to a farmhouse close by. In the script, Ms. Freeman and the students are at school when the blizzard hits. At first they plan on staying put because that is the safest thing to do. If they tried to leave they wouldn’t be able to see very long. There is too much snow, wind, and cold.
Fiction Writing for Middle School Bundle
This bundle offers comprehensive writing masterclasses to middle school and homeschool students.Over several units, students will explore narrative writing, descriptive writing, dramatic writing, and poetry. Each lesson builds on prior learning to help students develop their creativity.If you are using this or any of my other products in a homeschool environment, note that there is a collaborative component that will require a buddy or parent. My ethos on learning is social but whereas in tradit
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6th - 9th
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