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Drama Script & Cards to Teach Divergent, Parallel, and Convergent Lines
This is a dramatized version of a story that famous educator Maria Montessori created. It was recorded by Michael J. Dorer in his 2017 book, The Deep Well of Time and is known in the Montessori community as " The Love Story of the Lines" (yet my version isn't a love story). I adapted his script into a 4-page play (about 10-15 min.) that can be performed with a class forming two lines facing each other while the teacher narrates the script. You do not need to be a Montessori school or own Monte
K - 5th
Drama, Geometry, Math
CCSS
4.G.A.1
MathScripts: Algebra 1 – Writing Equations of Parallel Lines | Free Sample
Math Scripts: Algebra 1 is a classroom resource designed to help students speak the language of algebra through short, structured dialogues that strengthen reasoning, academic vocabulary, and conceptual understanding. With 19 topics and multiple scripts per topic, the book provides students with a low-pressure, high-engagement way to build confidence with algebraic ideas. This free resource is an excerpt from Math Scripts: Algebra 1 and is offered as a sample of the instructional approach and s
8th - 10th, Adult Education
Algebra, Algebra 2, Drama
Home: Elementary Music Concert Script for Grades 3-5 (Editable Readers Lines)
Home – A Flexible Grades 3–5 Concert Script & Song Theme GuideLooking for an engaging, meaningful elementary music concert that is easy to produce and flexible for your students? Home is a 25–30 minute upper elementary concert script designed for Grades 3–5 that explores the themes of belonging, community, growth, hope, and connection. This 15-page script provides a complete, cohesive framework while allowing you to choose the songs that best fit your classroom. Perfect for winter, spring, or en
3rd - 5th
Drama, Music, Other (Performing Arts)
Open Scene Project
This project is divided into three parts: Part 1 = This is an introduction to what an Open Scene is. You do this section together as a class, leading them through the process of choosing given circumstances for the example scene. Then you will get volunteers to perform what you came up with as a class and see how those given circumstances help to clarify the scene. Part 2 = In partners or trios, students will choose an Open Scene from a list of 4 choices. They will make decisions together as t
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Drama, Writing
Project - Creative Writing and Performance - Story Theatre - Grades 7-12
This story-theater project, which I originally used in conjunction with a 10th grade study of Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods, is intended either for drama or English classrooms and can be used with students ranging from grades 7 through 12. The first page of the document shows these instructions: Group project: Story Theatre Read two selections from Brave Little Tales in order to understand the conventions of story theatre as a literary/theatrical form (pages 2-27 and 28-50). In stor
7th - 12th
Creative Writing, Drama, English Language Arts
Root Finding Algorithms - Numerical Methods for High School Math
This is the chapter on Root Finding Algorithms from a larger project I wrote: A Numerical Methods Companion for High School Mathematics, which intended to be an aid for teachers of 10th, 11th, and 12th grade math to introduce computer science concepts in a manner which parallels topics taught in a standard math curriculum. Included in this PDF is a chapter giving explanations for many root finding algorithms, including Bisection Method, Newton Method, and Secant Method, along with worked out ex
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Engineering, Math
Root Finding Algorithms - Numerical Methods - First few pages
This is the chapter on Root Finding Algorithms from a larger project I wrote: A Numerical Methods Companion for High School Mathematics, which intended to be an aid for teachers of 10th, 11th, and 12th grade math to introduce computer science concepts in a manner which parallels topics taught in a standard math curriculum. Included in this PDF are the first few pages of a chapter that gives explanations for many root finding algorithms, including Bisection Method, Newton Method, and Secant Met
10th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Engineering, Math
Student-Led Write A Reader's Theater
A reader's theater is a script that students can read together, but do not memorize the lines. Allowing students to design and write their own reader's theater script is a great way to reinforce concepts with creativity! The script provides a basic outline, but students will complete the actual writing. Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3, Scene 4, and Scene 5 sheets included, blank sheet, and title page too! Thank you for your interest in this product! Check out other products by Miss Iced Coffee
3rd - 10th
For All Subjects, Writing
The Elves and the Shoemaker Reader's Theater and Performance Script
This fun, seasonal script supports your work in Reader's Theater or can function as a class project with speaking roles for 23 students. Based on Grimm's classic tale, this short script has a traditional feel while incorporating SEL elements. While this script is most useful for students in grades 1-3, it has been successfully used with Pre-K students (just give yourself enough time to rehearse their lines!) This script comes with production notes for those interested in performing, as well as
K - 3rd
Drama, Other (ELA)
Geometry Reader's Theater Scripts Classroom Readers Theatre Play 4th 5th Grade
This pack includes the following reader theater scripts for integrating math content into reading. Content Vocabulary integrated: Angles: Acute, Right, and Obtuse, Lines: Perpendicular, Parallel, Intersecting, Symmetry, Reflection Goldilocks and the Three Angles: Goldilocks spends the day investigating the home of the Three Angles, until she learns that acute is too small, right is just right, and obtuse is too big for her square angle investigator. 3 pgs. Parallela and her Wicked Stepsisters:
3rd - 5th
Balanced Literacy, Geometry, Reading
STAGE PLAYS for middle and high school - "Hollywood Dreamin"
For 19 years, I have been writing plays for middle and high school kids to perform where there is NO prima donnas. Everyone has lines, a character to develop and lots of times on stage. Each summer, I do a 2 week drama workshop with about 32 kids where I write the play for the kids who sign up. No auditions with rejections. There are two things you can do with my plays: 1. Use them in your classroom as a project for communication and expression. 2. Develop your own summer drama workshop p
6th - 12th
Drama, Music, Visual Arts
Spring Readers' Theater
Need a spring reading activity? Practice fluency in a fun and engaging way with this readers' theater script! Play Title and Short Description:SPRING CLEANING It’s time for the spring project that Mrs. Dunham’s class volunteers for each year. Usually it’s for something totally awesome, but this year they have to pick up trash! Can they find a way to make the day fun? QUICK INFO-5 roles (all gender neutral) -The script is four pages long (performance time: approximately 10 minutes) -Helpful inf
3rd - 4th
Art, Drama
CCSS
RF.3.4b
, RF.4.4a
, RF.5.4b
Also included in: Readers' Theater Bundle
Abridged Shakespeare for English Classes: Romeo and Juliet (modern text)
An edited, shortened version of the play that can be performed in about twenty minutes. It contains the whole play, the major speeches and scenes for about thirty players. This version has the lines revised into modern text. Original text is also available. This can be used both as a script for drama performance and for teaching the play to a conventional English class since the shorter run time makes understanding its plot and characters easier. I've also had my English classes perform it (info
9th - 12th
Drama, English Language Arts, Literature
Abridged Shakespeare for English Classes: Macbeth (modern text)
An edited, shortened version of the play that can be performed in about twenty minutes. It contains the whole play, the major speeches and scenes for about thirty players. This version has the lines revised into modern text. Original text is also available. This can be used both as a script for drama performance and for teaching the play to a conventional English class since the shorter run time makes understanding its plot and characters easier. I've also had my English classes perform it (info
9th - 12th
Drama, English Language Arts, Literature
Abridged Shakespeare for English Classes: The Tempest (modern text)
An edited, shortened version of the play that can be performed in about twenty minutes. It contains the whole play, the major speeches and scenes for about thirty players. This version has the lines revised into modern text. Original text is also available. This can be used both as a script for drama performance and for teaching the play to a conventional English class since the shorter run time makes understanding its plot and characters easier. I've also had my English classes perform it (info
9th - 12th
Drama, English Language Arts, Literature
Polar Express Play for 1st based on book by Chris Van Allsburg
Nothing says Christmas like the Polar Express! When I was teaching first grade, I thought it would be awesome to have my students perform a play based on the book. This product gives you the lines that I wrote broken down so that each student (there are 20 lines, you could make changes to fit your needs) has something to say. Between all of the awesome story, students will share some of the songs from the movie. Your guest will be pumped!!! Don't forget to take a video of it!!!
This pack includ
K - 3rd, Not Specific
Drama, Music
Joyful Christmas Sing-A-Long
Bring some joy and music to your Christmas celebration with this easy-to-produce script from award-winning playwright Andrew Kooman that will have the whole audience singing along. All you need is 4 performers (who can read or memorize their lines) and an audience with some holiday spirit. Synopsis: Greg’s annual tradition of Christmas carolling in the neighborhood is disrupted by his unexpected hospitalization. That’s when his daughter Amy surprises him by bringing the neighborhood to him to
Not Specific
Art, Drama
"THE BABY CARRIAGE" a one-act play for performance by young people and adults
Series: Around The World In Thirty Plays - Great Britain Bosworth Crocker’s THE BABY CARRIAGERevised, Edited & Curated for 21st Century Production byMichael Rulin Blevins ACTING EDITIONPlay: A Play in One-Act Cast: 2 females, 2 males; + 3 boys with no lines and an entrance as the curtain falls Suited for: Jr. & Senior High School students, University Students, & Adults actors Sets: Can be as simple or elaborate as desired Costumes/Props: Story appropriate as simple or elaborate as de
Not Specific
Drama, English Language Arts, Other (Arts)
Kindness Readers Theater | SEL Activities Being Kind Skits Scenarios Fun No Prep
Looking for no-prep SEL Kindness Themed Reader's Theater activities to practice reading fluency with your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students? This Bundle of skits/plays is perfect for your elementary school students learning how to be kind! 6 Different Readers Theaters Scripts Included: "The Group Project" "Lunchroom Kindness""A Helping Hand""Welcome to our Class""A Friend Who Cares""The Recess Injury"How it works:Split students into groups based on the number of characters.Have each student
2nd - 5th
Reading, Social Emotional Learning
CCSS
CCRA.R.4
, CCRA.SL.1
, CCRA.SL.2
+1
Persuasive Play Writing Unit | Planning Pages, Final Draft & Reference Page
Make persuasive writing fun and engaging with this Persuasive Play Writing Unit for 1st grade! This resource helps students plan, organize, and publish their own persuasive plays while learning important story elements and opinion writing skills. This activity is the perfect companion for Savvas MyView Literacy Unit 5 Week 6 Inquiry Project, but can also be used with any opinion or persuasive writing unit! What’s Included:☀Persuasive play planning sheet 2 versions included: Blank planning page☀P
K - 2nd
Creative Writing, Writing
Abridged Performance Text - Shakespeare - Measure for Measure - Grades 11-12
This 63-page document, which serves as the "sheet music" for a solid intellectual and performance challenge for student actors in senior high school, contains my abridged adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. The adaptation is structured in story-theatre style, meaning that its actors will speak passages both of Shakespeare's lines and of third-person prose narration that bridges gaps left in the original story and helps audiences unfamiliar with Measure for Measure to make sense of
11th - 12th
Drama, English Language Arts, Literature
Civil War Unit - The Better Angels Readers Theater Script (Part 5 of 5)
Civil War – The Better Angels of Our Nature (Part 5 of 5) Readers’ Theater Script concludes America’s struggle from Appomattox surrender to a nation’s lilac-scented mourning. Twelve scenes explore stacking arms, Richmond aflame, Lincoln’s assassination, the Sultana disaster, and a 1913 Gettysburg embrace—immerse students in courage, grief, and reconciliation. Walt Whitman’s lines anchor emotion while Abigail’s wonder and Benjamin’s analysis ensure clarity. Tiered roles support mixed-ability read
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Speaking & Listening, U.S. History, Writing
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.4
+7
Romeo and Juliet Puppet Play
Now your students can re-enact Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play with their own puppet presentation. 26 characters are in an easy-to-assemble hand puppet format and ready for the mini-stage. Your students will develop a greater understanding and working knowledge of Shakespearean dialogue as they take on individual roles and recite their lines. When videotaped, students can shoot individual scenes and edit them into their own movie of the entire play. Additional creative assignments could inc
9th - 12th, Adult Education
Drama, English Language Arts, Literature
CCSS
RL.9-10.3
, RL.9-10.6
, RL.9-10.10
Draculala short funny script for 2 actresses
Draculala short script for 2 actresses (2 female actors duologue) Run time: 3 minutes Draculala is a witty and lively two-character scene about Rosalinda, who bursts in excitedly to tell her friend Emmalia she’s landed the role of Draculala — an eerie, vampiric creature of the night — in an upcoming movie. As Rosalinda attempts to show off her memorized lines in a delightfully over-the-top “creepy” voice, she discovers she may have memorized them incorrectly, leading to humorous frustration and
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Drama, Reading, Speaking & Listening
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