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Drama: Creating a Production Step by Step using tons of Visible Thinking
This 33-page "workbook" or "drama journal" guides a group of students to create their own short (or longer) original production, using only Visible Thinking Strategies. It covers the entire creative process from goal setting, conception, story outline, character development, research, costume and set design, scheduling and planning strategies, audience reflections and finally, personal reflections. The students can, but do not have to write a script. There is no prescribed theme, genre, style or
4th - 10th
Creative Writing, Drama
Readers Theater Scripts Comical Multicultural Folk Fairy Tales Grades 4 to 6
SAVE 30% In this bundle are FIVE reader's theater scripts with UNITS, adapted from multicultural folk and fairy tales just for your classroom. Readers theater uses reading strategies to strengthen your students' reading, speaking, listening skills as well as build their imaginations. Students in reading, drama, language arts, social studies and ELL class will enjoy these pieces, just as my students have done so. A teacher could use these for distance learning assignments with a few tweaks to t
5th - 8th
Drama, Other (ELA), Speaking & Listening
Classic Tales Reader's Theater Bundle With Scripts. Familiar Children's Stories
Bring familiar stories to life with this Classic Tales Reader’s Theater Bundle, featuring engaging scripts based on well-known folk tales, fairy tales, and classic stories students already recognize. This bundle includes multiple complete reader’s theater scripts, making it easy to build fluency, comprehension, and confidence while keeping students genuinely engaged. Because the stories are familiar, students can focus on expression, pacing, and collaboration rather than decoding an unfamilia
K - 3rd
Drama, Other (Arts), Reading
Twelve Cranky Children Play Elementary Script Drama Club Readers Theater
Twelve Cranky Children Play Elementary Script Drama Club Readers Theater Is Jack a hero who saved the town, or an irresponsible boy who killed the giant after climbing the beanstalk and stealing the goose? Twelve Cranky Children must decide his fate in this comedic courtroom drama. With 21 roles, and a running time of approximately 45 minutes, the play is easily adapted to drama club or classroom use, with very small roles for the shy or reluctant readers to starring roles. Fairy tale charac
3rd - 8th
Drama, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies
Cooties Boys vs Girls Epic Showdown 3rd 4th 5th Grade Drama Play Readers Theater
The third through fifth grade students in my drama club are at that stage where some of the boys think the girls have “cooties” and vice versa. In this play, the teacher allows the children to settle the question of male vs. female superiority in a classroom debate, where the children must provide facts, not opinions, to offer supporting details to justify their positions.
Who wins? I’m pretty sure you already know, but the children certainly enjoy practicing their reading skills as they a
3rd - 6th
Character Education, Drama, Reading Strategies
Halloween Reader’s Theater Bundle | 3 Scripts for 5th Grade Reading Fluency
Bring spooky fun into your classroom this October with this Halloween Reader’s Theater Bundle! Designed for upper elementary students, these 3 engaging scripts boost reading fluency, expression, and comprehension while keeping kids excited to read aloud. Perfect for literacy centers, small groups, or a festive class performance! 🎃👻📚 What’s Included: ✔️ 3 Original Halloween Scripts The Mystery of the Haunted Library – Short script (6 parts) The Case of the Disappearing Pumpkins – 3 scene
4th - 7th
Drama, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RF.4.4
, RF.5.4
The Year Santa Got Mixed Up! - Readers Theater for the Entire Class
This is a Reader's Theater for the entire class. It can be performed at any time but is usually performed at Christmas. Reader's Theater is a terrifically fun way to improve your fluency. There is a short writing/discussion prompt at the end for your students to respond to.I would enjoy hearing back from you about what you think. The Year Santa Got Mixed Up! - Reader's Theater for the Entire Class by Melanie Whitesides and Amy Kensley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unport
3rd - 8th, Adult Education
Drama, Reading Strategies, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+16
A Sticky Situation Elementary Script Drama Club Readers Theater Play
A Sticky Situation Elementary Script Drama Club Readers Theater Play
With 22+ roles, and a running time of approximately 45 minutes, the comedic play is easily adapted to drama club or classroom use, with very small roles for the shy or reluctant readers to challenging starring roles. Roles can be combined for smaller groups.
The teacher is given a Very Important Note, but it is accidentally knocked into the trash bin. Once the people leave, the school supplies on the teacher's desk come to
3rd - 6th
Drama, Reading Strategies
Unity Day Original Bullying Play Elementary Script Readers Theater Drama Club
Unity Day is a comedy that addresses bullying issues, with 24 roles ranging from a few lines for the meek or struggling readers, with roles to differentiate all the way up through gifted readers and/or those who enjoy the spotlight. It is a historical view from a far distant future of a time when Earthling children first attend an intergalactic school and run into some trouble with their new classmates. They struggle to learn to get along despite their differences, but as usual, some are more
3rd - 6th
Character Education, Drama, Reading Strategies
The Witch's New Broom - Small Group Reader's Theater
This small group reader's theater has 4 parts. I wrote this one especially for the time near Halloween as students start thinking about spooky stories. If you like this script try the Halloween pack! I use the rubric that I have placed in my store. In the script, Rankle keeps bragging about how wicked she is and drives all the other witches nuts. Scrimpy decides to teach Rankle a lesson and pretends to get a new broom that only the wickedest witches can see. Rankle falls for it and buys the broo
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Drama, Reading Strategies, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.4.4
, RF.4.4a
, RF.4.4b
+12
Readers Theater Script Brave Little Tailor Grimms Fairy Tale Literature Toolkit
This comical reader's theater script with roles for 20+ students is suitable for upper elementary gifted or middle school students studying fairy tales, humor, L. Arts or Drama class. This piece could be a one or three day study depending upon how much effort a teacher wants to expend. Based on the beloved Grimms' fairy tale by the same name, students will have an opportunity to: study humor focus on their reading, especially in a play formatstrengthen their reading skills in vocal variety
5th - 7th
Drama, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies
Liar Liar Pants on Fire Play Elementary Script Drama Club Readers Theater
Elementary Script Drama Club Readers Theater Play: Liar Liar Pants on Fire With 27 roles, and a running time of approximately 45 minutes, the play is easily adapted to drama club or classroom use, with very small roles for the shy or reluctant readers to starring roles. Roles can be combined for smaller groups. Travis is prone to fanciful tales, and learns that sometimes lies have a way of getting us in the...um, end. Figurative language becomes anthropomorphized to help the children learn l
3rd - 6th
Drama, Reading Strategies
Ignoramuses Elementary Script Environmental Science Play Readers Theater
When I formed the drama club for 3rd-5th graders at my school, I had no idea scripts cost hundreds to thousands of dollars! I found some online readers' theater scripts, but none that were for more than a small handful of children or took more than a few minutes to perform. Necessity being the mother of invention, I started writing my own. The Ignoramuses is a comedic look at a serious issue. Instead of leaving mainstream society to form a better way of life, they form an island community
3rd - 6th
Drama, Reading Strategies, Science
Franken Cranky - A Cautionary Tale - Small Group Readers' Theater
We are moving our site, Wonbyone, to Wonbyone2. Please pardon our dust!This script was written for three students and for Halloween. In the script: A sweet little boy is allowed to stay up on Halloween and eat nothing but candy. It isn’t long before he is being rude and mean. He ends up staying up too late and gets a stomach ache. He has become, Franken-Cranky! The next day, his rude and terrible behavior continues. Mom and dad get him to bed early and are thankful when their sweet little boy re
3rd - 7th
Drama, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RF.4.3a
, RF.4.4
, RF.4.4a
+11
Princess and the Pea - a readers theatre play
Students will engage in reading, listening, and speaking as they perform this delightful Reader's Theatre version of the Princess and the Pea. If desired, the show can become a narrated pantomime, fully produced with costumes, etc., for an experience you and the students will be proud of. Synopsis:A Prince searches far and wide for the Princess of his dreams to marry, but to no avail. One stormy night, when he thinks all is lost, a young, bedraggled maiden appears at his castle door claiming to
Not Specific
Drama, Literature, Reading Strategies
Little Monsters Elementary Script Drama Club Readers Theater Play
Little Monsters Elementary Halloween Script Drama Club Readers Theater Play With 22+ roles, and a running time of approximately 45 minutes, the play is easily adapted to drama club or classroom use, with very small roles for the shy or reluctant readers to challenging starring roles. Roles can be combined for smaller groups. Ms. Pleasant really means it when she says her class is a bunch of little monsters. When the monster supply factory relocates to her town, she discovers her students are
3rd - 6th
Drama, Reading Strategies
The Principles New Clothes - Large Group Readers' Theater
We are in the process of moving our site, wonbyone, to wonbyone2. Please pardon out dust!This reader's theater is for the entire class! You will need at least 11 students but more is always better. This ties into my other twisted fairy tales except that it was written to do as a class. I split my class into two groups and both groups practice. When we perform we discuss what things we liked about each group. I use this to introduce the small group reader's theaters I have them do the rest of the
3rd - 10th, Adult Education
Character Education, Drama, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+14
'GONE
A modern riff on Sophocles' Antigone -- no suicides or trigger warnings. Less blood and more winning! Flexible roles perfect for 6-12 actors. Stage it or use it for reader's theatre. All roles are flexible for any gender!
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Drama, Other (Arts), Reading Strategies
CCSS
CCRA.L.1
, CCRA.L.2
, CCRA.L.3
+3
A Modern Day Rapunzel Story - Small Group Readers' Theater
We are moving our site, wonbyone, to wonbyone2. Please pardon our dust!This small group reader's theater was written for 3 students. Two parts are for girls and one part is for a boy. The story is about Rapunzel who is a normal girl with an unusual name. Prince, a normal boy with a dog's name, thinks he is living a fairy tale and comes to rescue Rapunzel. Rapunzel thinks he's crazy. This reader's theater is also in my twisted tales pack. I use reader's theaters to encourage my students to practi
3rd - 6th
Drama, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+14
The Class Pet - Small Group Reader's Theater for First Grade Level Readers
This reader's theater was written for 4 students. It was written for students who are on a 1st grade reading level. In the script, the class is getting a pet. Nan, Pat, Bill, and Jon are trying to guess what the pet will be. They discuss problems that different animals may cause and decide that the class pet should be a fish. I used this script to help my phonics group practice and then, once they performed it, we wrote a persuasive paper asking the principal to let us have a pet. There is a sm
1st - 5th, Adult Education
Drama, Reading Strategies, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.1.4
, RF.1.4a
, RF.1.4b
+23
After the Ball - Small Group Readers' Theater
We are moving our site, wonbyone, to wonbyone2. Please pardon our dust!This small group reader's theater is for 4 characters. Ever wonder what happened after the ball and before Prince Charming found Cinderella? This is a twisted fairy tale that answers that question. I use reader's theaters to encourage my students to practice fluency. It is a fun way to do something that they need. Most of my scripts are in black and white so they photo copy easily. This one does have a colored picture on the
3rd - 6th
Drama, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+14
FREE Teachers' Workday Script Drama Club Readers' Theater
I think the subject matter may have been a bit too sarcastic for some people's tastes, so I just converted this to a freebie in the hopes that you might enjoy my writing style and consider other readers' theater scripts for your elementary drama club or intermediate classroom. Of course, please do feel free to use this script if you wish. It may have been a personal vent, but it turned out to be a real hit with the children! This script is a comedic jab at all of the so-called educational expe
3rd - 6th
Drama, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies
Play Without Ceasing - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a religious reader's theater intended for a small group of 4 students. The object of the script is to examine what is meant by pray without ceasing and how to apply it in our lives. #2 is trying to be a better Christian and heard the pastor last week talking about a scripture that said to play without ceasing. He/she got it a little wrong and did not read too carefully when they looked it up so now they are mixed up. #4 is able to set the record straight by looking the scripture up and t
4th - 10th, Adult Education
Drama, English Language Arts, Religion
CCSS
RL.4.10
, RL.5.10
, RL.6.10
+6
Play Without Ceasing - Small Group Readers' Theater
We are moving our site, wonbyone, to wonbyone2. Please pardon our dust!This is a religious reader's theater intended for a small group of 4 students. The object of the script is to examine what is meant by pray without ceasing and how to apply it in our lives. #2 is trying to be a better Christian and heard the pastor last week talking about a scripture that said to play without ceasing. He/she got it a little wrong and did not read too carefully when they looked it up so now they are mixed up.
3rd - 10th, Adult Education
Drama, Reading, Religion
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+14
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