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Activity
Mythology Teacher

Eros and Psyche: Part 1

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
With Eros and Psyche, your learners will have the opportunity to combine the art of reader's theater with a study of the ancient Greek gods! This engaging reader's theater script will also serve as a fantastic way for your class members...
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Lesson Plan
The New York Times

Writing to Explain: Creating How-To Scripts and Demonstrations

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Excuse me, can you give me directions? Scholars examine and practice technical writing to increase their ability to write directions. They participate in discussion, watch videos, and complete an assignment to create their own directions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Castle in the Sun

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the internet to find pictures of castles throughout Europe. After reading stories about castles, they use recycled boxes to build their own. To end the lesson, they write their own script and act it out in front of their...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Project: What's for Dinner?

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
This creative project may make your young programmers hungry as they practice their Java Script coding. The task is fairly open ended: add shapes using different shape functions, including the fill and stroke functions to add color and...
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Organizer
Learning Station

Writing Playscripts

For Students 4th - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students read a short description of a play script. Then, students read a fable and write a play script of the fable.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reader's Theater Script Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this reading worksheet, young scholars perform a short reader's theater script based on the book Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night. Students take a part in this 4 character play and read or perform it.
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Council for Economic Education

Athens and Olive Oil

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Athens had olive oil—and lots of it! However, it needed wheat from the Egyptians. Understanding how societies get what they need through advantage and trade can be complicated. A scripted role-play exercise and in-class production...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Alicia Keys, Songs in A Minor

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Need a musical lesson for your drama or performing arts class? VH1 has put together a really neat lesson, in which learners use biographical information about Alicia Keys to write and perform a one-act musical related to her life. This...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Scriptwriting Skill Module

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify and analyze conflicts in plots. In this conflict instructional activity students recall stories, novels and movies they've read or seen and discuss the conflicts contained therein.  They then complete some written...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Australia: Scriptwriting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write a script of a play using Freytag's Pyramid on plot.  In this scriptwriting lesson, students read a play and participate in a lecture/discussion about the main components of a play and the basis of drama.  Students relate...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chinese Script Decoded

For Students 7th - 8th
In this Chinese script decoded learning exercise, students read about the history or Chinese writing, then answer 30 questions about Chinese script, with questions in English and Chinese, as part of an exhibit at the Hong Kong Museum of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reader's Theater Script- Green Eggs and Ham

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
For this reading worksheet, students perform a reader's theater based on the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham. Students read the 2 character short script as a play.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Connected Text, Readers' Theater

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Readers' theater is a fun way to get kids reading with expression and improve their fluency! There is a full script here for The Three Bears with five characters to assign.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Macbeth News Broadcast

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here is an authentic assessment task for Shakespeare's Macbeth. Young literature scholars prepare, perform, and record a news broadcast about the major events in the play. For example, groups may choose to report on the death of Lady...
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Activity
Curated OER

Radio Commercial Assignment

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Testing, testing! Following the provided script, class members are asked to create a radio commercial, complete with sound effects and background music.
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Worksheet
Charlesbridge

Under the Freedom Tree: A Readers Theater

For Students 4th - 6th
Susan VanHecke's Under the Freedom Tree is transformed into a 12-part readers theatre script appropriate for a performance by upper-elementary classes.
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Lesson Plan
Civil War Trust

Civil War Reader's Theater

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Encourage class members to add expression and put themselves back in time during the Civil War with a reader's theater activity. The scripts include dialogue on what it was like for the Union and Confederate sides during this time.
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Activity
Beauty and Joy of Computing

Algorithms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Introduces the class to the idea of searching a list by building a script. Learners modify a guessing game script that will find a number in a list. 
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Readers Theater: Writing a Conclusion

For Teachers 8th Standards
That's all, folks! Scholars work with their group members to create conclusions for their To Kill A Mockingbird reader's theater scripts. They use a criteria list to help guide their conclusion writing and discuss how the conclusions...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson 5: In the Courtroom: Understanding the Players and the Action

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Young lawyers put Goldilocks on trial as they develop an understanding of the legal system in the final activity of this five-part series. After learning about key terms relating to litigation, students are assigned roles and reading...
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Activity
Library Sparks

When Marian Sang: Reader's Theater

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Put on an eight-actor show based on Pan Munoz Ryan's When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson. The resource comes with a color-coded script that includes some images from the picture book.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

End of Unit 3 Assessment: Readers Theater Commentary

For Teachers 8th Standards
Prove it! In the end-of-unit assessment, scholars write a commentary and provide evidence to justify the connection between their reader's theater scripts and To Kill A Mockingbird. After completing the assessment, they practice...
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Unit Plan
Learning to Give

Teaching Playwriting in Schools

For Teachers 1st - 12th Standards
The world is a stage, and so is your classroom! Hone the skills of the next generation of Tony® award winners with a set of exercises, reference pages, writing prompts, and excerpts from famous plays.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mother's Day Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Help your class develop their public speaking skills. They write original scripts for informative infomercials, plays, or poetry. They work to present their information with purpose.

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