Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Leisure Skills

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students investigate the skill of self initiating a leisure skill using a choice training procedure. The training is done in short intervals of about five minutes each. The behavior is reinforced and the goal is to keep it sustained....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Can You Stretch the Truth?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students study folk tales. They write a class folk tale and then one of their own using a famous character or known celebrity as their main character. They put on a class play of one of the student's folk tales.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers rebuild the a portion of the text of Twelfth Night by reordering lines of text to create meaning thereby gaining confidence when in their ability to gain meaning when reading Shakespeare.
Website
National Arts Centre (Canada)

Arts Alive: English Theatre

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtsAlive provides a detailed look into world of professional theatre. Thematically organized content walks through all the processes involved in "transforming a play from the page to the stage," including playwriting, directing, acting,...
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: New Year's Resolutions [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd
A reader's theater adaptation of Francis B. Watts' story, New Year's Resolutions. Eight character roles are needed in this performance.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: A Christmas Story: Shoot Your Eye Out [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for a scene from Jean Shepherd's children's story, A Christmas Story: Shoot Your Eye Out, is provided on these pages. Five character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: A Little Excitement [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Marc Harshman's book, A Little Excitement, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Lenore Look's children's book, Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things, is provided on these pages. Seven character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Angelina Ice Skates [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig's children's book, Angelina Ice Skates, is provided on these pages. Sixteen character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Ant and the Grasshopper [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Aesop's fable, The Ant and the Grasshopper, is provided on these pages. Five character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Arthur's Christmas [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Marc Brown's children's book, Arthur's Christmas, is provided on these pages. Ten character roles are needed in this activity.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Arthur the Brave [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A reader's theater script for Marc Brown's book, Arthur the Brave, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Patrick Carman's Atherton: The House of Power

For Teachers 5th - 8th
A reader's theater script for Patrick Carman's young adult dystopian novel, Atherton: The House of Power, is provided on this activity. Eight character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: A Bad Case of the Stripes [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for David Shannon's children's book, A Bad Case of the Stripes, is provided on these pages. Eighteen character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Bfg [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Roald Dahl's children's book, BFG, is provided on these pages. Six character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Big Al [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Andew Clements Yoshi's book, Big Al, is provided on these pages. Eight character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Birbal's Trip to Paradise [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A reader's theater adaptation of Steve William's version of Birbal's Trip to Paradise. Six speaking parts are needed in this performance.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Brave Irene [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for William Steig's children's book, Brave Irene, is provided on these pages. Four character roles are needed in this activity.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Christmas Everywhere [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
A reader's theater script for Phillip Brooks' children's book, Christmas Everywhere, is provided on these pages. Eight character roles are needed in this activity.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Cinderella Bigfoot [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Mike Thaler's children's book, Cinderella Bigfoot, is provided on these pages. Fifteen character roles are needed in this activity.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Cinderella V.1 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of the fairy tale, Cinderella V.1, is provided on this script. Nine character roles are needed in this performance.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Daisy Head Mayzie [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A reader's theater script for Dr. Seuss'children's book, Daisy-Head Mayzie, is provided on these pages. Sixteen character roles are needed in this activity.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Janet Stevens and Susan Crummel's nursery rhyme version, And the Dish Ran Away With The Spoon, is provided on these pages. Twenty character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Hansel and Gretel [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Dom DeLuise's Hansel and Gretel is provided on these pages. Twelve character roles are needed in this activity.