DRAMA FUN BIG BUNDLE: MIDDLE SCHOOL GAMES AND READERS THEATER

In this exciting 30% off Middle School drama bundle, (save $16.27!) you will find enough fun material to keep your grade 5-8 students happy and entertained for an entire semester. Even the most rambunctious Middle School drama classes during last block will be happily busy for weeks! The bundle contains 16 high-interest, often humorous games and scripts. The most you ever have to do is some photocopying and, with many of the games, not even that. They aren't print and go- they are just GO! Please check out the previews of each resource.
These resources are part of a mega money saving 50% off Bargain Bundle: 50% OFF DRAMA BIG BARGAIN BUNDLE.

Included:
-- 65 games in two resources
-- A readers' theater script writing unit
-- 7 Readers' Theater scripts with questions & activities, such as mix and match jokes and word searches. 5 of the 7 scripts are also brainteaser mysteries. Students not only have to read their roles with vigor, but solve mysteries (usually thefts) too. There are no murders, or violence of any kind! One of the scripts contains a definitions sheet of 25 Elements of Drama terms and several Elements of Drama exercises.
-- A drama circle
-- 3 seasonal impromptu speaking resources
-- A riddles act- the- answer game
-- Resources for ALL major celebrations are included!

HERE'S A QUICK SAMPLING OF SOME OF THE RESOURCES:
45 DRAMA GAMES
45 fun middle school theater games and activities will keep even the biggest and most rambunctious drama classes busy and entertained. These drama games and activities will nurture life-long skills while supplying lesson-long fun for your grades 5-8 students!
-- The games strengthen a variety of essential drama skills, using the voice, body, team collaboration, and even memory.
-- They range from improv warm-up games for individuals and teams, to scene creation, to games that can be played to hone skills while the class is rehearsing a play.

-- Some games last a few minutes, while others (depending on the size of your class) could take a whole lesson.
-- Some of these games are frequently used ones, but most (hopefully!) will be completely new to you. They all have one thing in common: FUN!
-- The resource ends with a Readers’ Theater Script. This script is a middle school drama class mystery that your students first read aloud, then collaborate to solve the drama class whodunit.
ALL GAMES AND ACTIVITIES ARE STUDENT TESTED AND APPROVED!

Teacher prep
Most of the games do not require ANY teacher prep. A few of the games use topic cards, giving you, for example, enough dramatic scenes and situations for each group in the class to have a different one. If you copy them onto card stock, or laminate them, they will last until your retirement party.

This resource contains
-- 21 Warm up games for individuals
-- 10 Warm up games for teams

-- 7 Scene creation activities
-- 7 Play rehearsal warm up games
-- Readers' Theater Mini-Mystery Script.

DRAMA TIME FILLERS

These 20 fun drama activities are precious sanity savers! This no-prep drama time fillers resource heals a horror experienced by all middle school and high school teachers. It is last block of the day and your beautifully planned lesson has finished...but the block hasn’t! There is another 10 minutes to go- yikes! When you have this drama teacher survival kit at the ready you can quieten even the most rambunctious classes on Friday afternoon. The 20 activities in this resource will calm your classes, rather than rev them up, as acting games often do. Unscrambling drama words, performing drama writing (such as creating a dice roll plot synopsis), hand drawing a drama word cloud- all of these activities will keep your students thinking about drama, even when they are not acting! Only ONE activity has to be photocopied: the drama word search.

READERS' THEATER: Mystery of the Stolen Laptop

This grades 5-8 Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script gives students high-interest practice in reading aloud, comprehension and writing. Drama and ELA fun! "The Mystery of the Stolen Laptop" readers’ theater script requires your students to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The cast list is intended for 8 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded, depending on how many groups you wish to have.
PLOT
This funny and engaging 12 page script is about the theft of a laptop at school and the detective work two characters use to track it down. The main character parts range in age from 10-14. Matt fears he isn’t as speedy at working things out as his clever friend Sophie is, but he manages to wow her in this whodunit- and discovers where his laptop is!

STUDENT TASKS
-- Students read aloud their assigned part.
-- To track down the missing laptop, students unscramble anagrams.
-- They also work out clues using a numbers-to-alphabet code.
-- They discuss and write on six short answer questions.
-- They complete a journal entry in paragraph form.
-- They design a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ style drawing for a fellow student.

Question sheets and answers are included.

READERS' THEATER: Mystery of the Drama Camp Thief
This funny Middle School readers’ theater mystery activity will give your students practice in reading aloud, comprehension, and writing. Making inferences and finding context clues practice AND Drama and ELA whodunnit fun- phew! The Mystery of the Drama Camp Thief is a realistic, 10 page script that will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The cast list has 12 readers but the number of readers can easily be reduced to as few as 7. Doubling up of roles is easy. This resource will delight both entire classes and small groups of early finishers. Question sheets and answers are included. The script is both a printable PDF and an Easel Activity.

PLOT

This funny and engaging story is about the theft of a necklace at a camp and the detective work that two characters use to track it down. The main character parts range in age from 12-14. Matt fears he isn’t as speedy at working things out as his clever friend Sophie is, but he manages to wow her in this story- and discover where her much-loved necklace is!

STUDENT TASKS
-- Students read their individual parts aloud.
-- To track down the missing necklace, students unscramble anagrams. They also work out clues using a numbers-to-alphabet code.
-- Students write on 5 pages of writing activities. Students have to discuss and write on questions about the reading of the play, how it might be filmed, and on issues the play raises, such as peer pressure.
-- They also have some fun creative tasks, such as writing a short rhyming poem.

I have yet more Reader's Theater scripts in my store! For example, try
READERS THEATER SCARY MYSTERY SCRIPT: A STORMY MYSTERY + QUESTIONS.
I also have a mystery script for every major holiday. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's, End of the School Year- my young detectives are ever vigilant!

If your students like the detection heroes of two of the Readers’ Theater Scripts, Matt and Sophie, they will enjoy their further exploits in Mini Mysteries grades 5-8.
Your students will also enjoy the speaking activities in ELA Games grades 5-8

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