Activity
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "When the Bubble Burst" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "When the Bubble Burst", students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a child who gets in trouble for...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understanding Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Make complex inferences in a play and use textual evidence to support your understanding.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Monologues and Soliloquies (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
Recognize monologue and soliloquy and explain how they function in a play.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
Article
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: "Edward Ii". Vii. Marlowe Kyd. Kyd. Vol. 5. The Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
Marlowe's play, Edward II, has been referred to as the best effort in dramatics for him.
Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "A Lesson Learned" Poetry Theater: A Poem in Two Voices

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "A Lesson Learned", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework! and If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a skydiver...
Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Bad Baxter Barton" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "Bad Baxter Barton," students will participate in a dramatization of a poem. Adapted from the poem "Bad Baxter Barton" originally published in Tall Tales of the Wild West (And a Few Short Ones) by Eric Ode, students will assume roles...
Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "My Violin" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "My Violin," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child who causes problems at home whenever he plays his violin.
Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Stop Sniffling!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Stop Sniffling!," young scholars will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child who learns the importance of blowing his nose.
Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Out of Control" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Out of Control," students will participate in a poem in eleven voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a remote that mysteriously flips through...
Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "My Dog Has Got No Manners" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "My Dog Has Got No Manners," learners will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in Rolling in the Aisles, students will dramatize a poem about a child who complains about his dog's bad behavior to...
Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Bad Hair Day" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Bad-Hair Day," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Linda Knaus in If Kids Ruled the School, students will dramatize a poem about how one child's messy hair interrupts the class.
Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "My Noisy Brother" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "My Noisy Brother," young scholars will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework! students will dramatize a poem about a child who imitates the annoying sounds that his...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Excerpts From Three Sisters

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpts from Three Sisters" a play by Anton Chekhov, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
Website
American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: A Streetcar Named Desire

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers good material on Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire," including a quote from Williams on art, and information on the original 1947 production of the play and the 1950s film version.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Chicken Little

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Excerpt From the Tragedy of Julius Caesar: Act Iii, Scenes I, Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from the Tragedy of Julius Caesar: Act III, Scenes I, II" by William Shakespeare, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Fourteen

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
A learning module that begins with "Fourteen" Alice Gerstenberg, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Trifles

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
Lesson Plan
Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "The Teachers' Show" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "The Teachers' Show," students will participate in a poem in eight voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a zany talent show for teachers.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Introduction

For Students K - 1st
This is an introduction to three little plays. It discusses that it requires students to play pretend in plays.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Guess, Guess

For Students K - 1st
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue between Boy and Girl. Click on Words to complete an activity.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Dog and Cat

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue between Dog and Cat. Click on Words to complete an activity.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Cookies

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive is a little ebook play with dialogue among Mother, Girl, and Boy. Click on Words to complete an activity.