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Arts & music Common Core RL.4.5 activities
Elements of Drama UNIT Interactive Notebook Video Lessons & Comprehension
Teaching drama doesn’t have to be stressful with this PRINT & DIGITAL unit! Step 1) Students watch an introductory video lesson while completing a handout. Step 2) Students watch a video lesson walking them through the interactive notebook activity. Step 3) Students complete an Elements of Drama vocabulary matching activity. Step 4) Students will be so familiar with these terms that they will ace the drama comprehension quiz. Step 5) You keep your sanity!This DRAMA UNIT includes:20-Slide Ani
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2nd - 5th
Elements of Drama Activities and Worksheets - Types of Writing - Plays & Theater
Practice identifying unique elements of drama with this mini lesson activity! Perfect for reading centers, this mini lesson leads students through identifying acts, scenes, stage directions, and more in a play. Students then color code elements of drama in a separate play, then match terms to their definitions.Both printable and Google Slides versions are included! Students must identify elements of drama specified in the Common Core Literature Standard 4.5. This Resource Includes:↠ Digital and
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3rd - 6th
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Aesop’s Fables Unit & Lesson Plans – Genre Study for 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
This fables unit offers a complete reading, writing, speaking, and listening experience! It includes lesson plans, 10 stories with comprehension questions, 7 plays, writing, and compare-contrast activities. You’ll have everything you need to teach your third, fourth, or fifth grade students. Open the preview to take a closer look at the components. Lesson PlansThree weeks of ELA lesson plans are ready to go! You may use them to guide your study of fables. (Open the bonus preview to see the plans
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3rd - 5th
Read-Aloud Plays: Tale of Peter Rabbit Readers Theater
The last time my 5th graders performed this for our primary students, well, in 20 years of having kids produce plays, I've never seen a funnier play or a more engaged audience! This original read-aloud play uses Beatrix Potter's classic story to focus on peer pressure and character traits. It comes with the original text and three worksheets: vocabulary and grammar development, fact and opinion maze, and a compare and contrast exercise. The play is for from 7 to 11 students, depending on your ne
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3rd - 6th
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Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Bundle Point of View
If you're looking for an engaging way to work on FLUENCY with your upper elementary students, this Fractured Fairy Tale Readers' Theater bundle is PERFECT! Explore three well-known fairy tales from the perspective/Point of View of different characters. These scripts and reading comprehension activities are perfect for small groups and can be used throughout the year with no prep for you. These also make great SUB PLANS! Scripts included in this Bundle:The True Story of the Three Little PigsHumpt
William Shakespeare Bundle of 5 plays, abridged adaptations
Stop! You've found it, a wonderful set of five of Shakespeare's finest plays. Introduce your class to the greatest hero of the English language and give them a performance experience they'll never forget. These original adaptations have been written in kid friendly language retaining the irresistible excitement of the Bard's stories and will become a favorite of your students now and for years to come.The 5 plays included are:Shakespeare’s Macbeth, abridged adaptationShakespeare’s Midsummer Nigh
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3rd - 8th
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Poetry Prose and Drama Digital Mini Lessons BUNDLE - Passages and Activities
This bundle includes mini lessons that explain each element of poetry, prose, and drama. Students then color code each element within a text, and match each element to the correct definition.Includes printable and Google Slides versions. These resources are not editable.Students must identify ALL elements specified in the Common Core Literature Standard 4.5.***Please Note: These lessons are also included in my Comparing Poetry Prose and Drama Unit - Nursery Rhymes Bundle.***This Resource Include
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3rd - 5th
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Medieval Scripts for Readers Theater, Short Play or Puppet Show BUNDLE
This medieval script bundle can be used in many ways to support your medieval unit! The various plays can simply be used as readers theater scripts. They could also be used in writing instruction/modeling. Three of the stories include both a script and narrative version of the story. However the most fun way to use them is to have your class perform them in a "Medieval Fair Unit Culminating Event" !!!Included in this bundle:-Medieval Character Profile Page-12 Full Color Medieval Character Pictur
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Not Grade Specific
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All the World's a Stage: Body Positions on Stage
⭐ ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE: Body Positions on Stage ⭐ ☆ BESTSELLER ☆Over 40 slides/pages for teaching the 9 main stage areas and 8 different body positions actors have to learn and consider when on stage: Where to be or go on stage, and How to position their bodies. Perfect for use with the Parts of Stage and Stage Directions and the Types of Stages resources (available in a money-saving bundle).What's included:An 20+ slide, richly animated and editable Main Powerpoint Presentation (Google Slides
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: All The World's A Stage 3-in-1 Bundle (100+ pages/slides)
Readers Theater Scary Mystery Script - GRADES 3-4 Making Inferences
This grades 3-4 Readers' Theater fun mystery script will give your students high interest practice in reading aloud, inferencing, making predictions and drawing conclusions. The Mystery of the Haunted House will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve three major clues. The script is intended for about 9 students but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded depending on how many groups you wish to have. If you have a class that dislikes any
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3rd - 4th
Elements of Drama -- Ideas for Comparing Scripts & Stories; Printable Questions
Compare scripts and stories with these ideas and printable play excerpts. Two worksheets are included. Suggested answers are given for the Comparing a Story and Play worksheet, and the worksheet for identifying parts of a script can be used with any play. This resource as well as a 7-question Easel assessment can be accessed digitally on any device.Click here for another one of my drama resources. ✅ WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:This resource is not intended to cover the standards associated with it in
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3rd - 4th
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Quiz Quiz Trade RL.4.5 Poetry Drama & Prose or Story | Flash Cards
EDITBALE: This quiz and trade set includes both a PDF and an editable version so you can add or change questions or answers to fit your needs. For example, I teach in Tennessee, so I needed to change the word "prose" to "story."It is designed to be printed double-sided so all students have to do to find the correct answer is flip the card over.I use this in my classroom to review structural elements of poetry, drama, and prose/story for RL.4.5. I have my students take turns quizzing each other
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4th
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Readers' Theater Brain Teaser Mystery Script GRADES 3 & 4 Bundle
3 readers' theater scripts for the price of 2! This fun 30% off grades 3-4 high-interest trio of brain teaser mystery scripts will delight both ELA and Drama students. They will practice reading and comprehension skills while testing their wits in deductive work. In one of the mysteries they will discover the thieves of a laptop at school. The main characters, Matt and Sophie, are upper elementary students who love riddles and are effective detectives. In another mystery, twins Sloane and Sport
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3rd - 4th
Writing in Dramatic Form – Kids Write Skits, Plays, Readers Theater & Drama
Let them write plays! Kids learn about structural elements of poetry, practice, and rewrite age-appropriate children’s stories in dramatic form. Your students will love writing drama – and then acting it out as skits or readers theater. Open the preview to take a closer look at the activities.First, kids learn about elements of drama with two reference guides, or anchor charts:Cast of characters – list of characters in a playDialogue – words that tell the actors what to sayCharacter tag – name t
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3rd - 5th
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Reader's Theater Script: A Winter Tale, Squirrels, Reading Strategies Activities
A Winter Squirrely Tale (Winter Theme, Reading and Writing Activities)READING STRATEGIESSquirrels in Winter?5 CHARACTERSReader's TheaterScripts With ContentFor Intermediate ReadersThis Reader’s Theater Script is a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small groups, centers, or teacher table.Where Are The Nutz? It is a fun story about a family of squirrels surviving a hard cold winter. Someone ate the last acorn, grandma has a hidden cache, and everyone is lo
Our Solar System, Science Script And Lots Of Activities, Planets One By One
Reading And Science Integration: Our Solar System
(The Sun, The Planets, Pluto, and The Big Bang Theory)
Reading/Science Integration: Activities To Be Used In Small Groups, Centers, Or Teacher Table.
10 Characters/ Intermediate To Advance Readers
This script will talk about:
The Big Bang Theory (The universe origin)
The Milky Way
Our Solar System
The Sun And Planets Order & Characteristics
Full Package includes:
Cover
Introduction
Common Core Standards (Reading, Listening, Science)
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Meter and Rhythm in Poetry Made Easy!
I was asked by the fourth-grade teachers at my school to do a lesson in music class on Meter and Rhythm in Poetry, because the concept wasn't "sinking in" with the students. After many trials and errors, I finally came up with a lesson that is effective, simple and, most importantly, FUN! This lesson works for both music teachers and classroom teachers. I used Nursery Rhymes and a game-like activity to make this lesson not feel like work, but more like exploring and "playing around." I hope this
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2nd - 5th
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Theater Point of View
Experience a "twist" on the Three Billy Goats Gruff story by learning about the Troll's perspective in this witty Readers' Theater play and reading comprehension unit! Students will enjoy the script and review key reading and writing skills. ** This product is part of a bundle: check it out HERE!Students will enjoy reading (and acting out) this fun story. There are 6 parts, making this perfect for small groups. After reading the play, engage your students in a variety of reading and writing acti
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Bundle Point of View
Poetry, Drama, and Prose - Comparing Text Types
To read more about how I use this product in my classroom, check out this post. A big standard in fourth grade is explaining major differences between poetry, drama, and prose. As a teacher, I know it's easy to get caught up in the fun of our poetry unit, and ignore this standard. We just want to get to the fun haikus and sonnets and cinquains! Hey, I get it!This resources teaches the major differences between poetry, drama, and prose in multiple fun activities! Little or no prep is required for
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Poetry Activities Bundle
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen readers theater
This script includes chapters 1 & 2 of Hatchet where the main character is in the plane. It leaves a cliffhanger so readers will want to read more. There are 20 narrator parts and three character parts.
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Gary Paulsen books Readers Theater Bundle
Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh Readers Theater
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation script has 5 narrators and 15 character parts. The readers will be engaged as they follow the plot of how the family takes their case to court.
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2nd - 7th
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Elements of Drama Digital Learning Stations
This is a google product. You will need to make a copy to your own drive. The wording on each slide is completely editable. These are digital learning stations embedded with links and videos to teach Elements of Drama: What is drama?, Cast of Characters, Setting, Dialogue, Stage Directions, and Acts and Scenes. I would set these up with pairs or small groups with a computer and allow them to work through this at their own pace. Alternatively, you could set up 5 computers around the room and have
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3rd - 5th
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Shakespeare’s Macbeth, abridged adaptation
My students love, love, love this play. They've become the rock stars of 3rd grade after performing it, so admired, so confident. Get this play for your kids and see for yourself. This abridged adaptation of the play, Macbeth, takes 17 minutes to perform. Students love the magic and drama of Macbeth, which is made clear through the kid friendly language. This simplified version of the Shakespeare text is ideal for second language learners. As your ELL students practice this play, you can see the
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: William Shakespeare Bundle of 5 plays, abridged adaptations
Elements of Drama Scavenger Hunt
This is a fun and interactive way for students to learn, or review, the elements of drama. They will collaborate and converse with their peers about which element of drama answers the riddle.
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3rd - 6th, Higher Education
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