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Learners Edge: Play in the Classroom
Play is not more important than science, literacy, physics, or math - it IS science, literacy, physics, and math. It is the FOUNDATION for learning. This article touches on the research supporting the importance of incorporating play...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)
You will be able to recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
British Library
British Library: Prose and Verse in Shakespeare's Plays
An article discussing how Shakespeare used prose and verse in his plays, and what we can learn from this. The author cites numerous examples from Shakespeare's plays and a few from other authors. Includes images of documents in the...
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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Dramatize a Situation [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will help students plan a drama that is based on a story or a historical event. Students will complete a graphic organizer, answer guiding questions, and write a play based on the content.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)
Recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
PBS
Pbs: Play Pretend Restaurant (Make a Restaurant Lesson Plan)
An exercise in role playing centered on restaurants. Work with young learners to list the supplies needed to run a restaurant. Then gather props, create menus with pictures of food items, and take turns role-playing waiters and customers.
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Ncrel: Home Literacy Activities for Preschoolers
This list of suggestions for encouraging a love of reading and the development of pre-reading skills is very helpful. It contains sections on Daily Reading, Book Talk, Extended Discourse, Language Play, Writing, and Dramatic Play....
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Hummingbird Educational Resources: Ladybugs and Insects
This is a resource for any teacher looking for some ideas to use to complement a unit on bugs. Scroll down for songs, center ideas, crafts, science discovery, math ideas, dramatic play ideas and much more!
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Dramatic Irony (English I Reading)
Recognize dramatic irony and explain how it functions in a play.
PBS
Pbs: Play Pretend Post Office (Make a Post Office Lesson Plan)
Instructions for creating a make-believe post office.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in Dramatic Tragedy
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to change the action in the turning point of a tragedy in order to see the effect on the rest of the play. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Joy, Or, New Dramatical Charades by Annemina De Younge
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Joy, or, New Dramatical Charades for Home Performance by Annemina de Younge (c1875), a collection of short plays to use for charades.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Determining Dramatic Irony
Read lines 1 - 175 of Act V, scene 3 from Romeo and Juliet together to determine how dramatic irony is used to develop the tragic tone of this play?
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Retelling Is Fun!
The purpose of this lesson plan is to get students involved with retelling activities, including writing a narrative and dramatic play.
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: Imagine! Introducing Your Child to the Arts
Creative play with a purpose! Information, from the National Endowment for the Arts, to encourage and guide your children in understanding and appreciating the arts. Learn how to engage them in arts of all sorts: writing, dance, music,...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Explore Wedding Traditions
A lesson plan that gives young children the opportunity to learn about weddings and to experience different wedding traditions. Includes ideas for making props and role-playing wedding ceremonies and celebrations.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Trifles by Susan Glaspell
Come and explore "Trifles" A Play in One Act by Susan Glaspell at this site from the University of Virginia. This online version of the play is maintained at the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Susan Glaspell
Have you ever read any of Susan Glaspell's work? This site offers a range of material on the work "Trifles." The materials range from classroom issues and strategies, major themes, historical perspectives, and the personal issues that...
Scholastic
Scholastic: How to Promote Creative Thinking
As teachers, we play an important role in supporting children's ability in art, dramatic expression, and creative responses to problems. Creative power increases a young child's desire to learn and supports intellectual development. This...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Readers' Theatre for Kapiti Plain
This readers' theatre of Verna Aardema's Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain crosses the curriculum to incorporate language arts, social studies, and science objectives. Students will become familiar with the text of the story and then...
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Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing
This site, by the author of a workbook on the craft of writing, is filled with essays about many elements of dramatic writing, from the principles of storytelling, to plot development, to character development. There are also numerous...
Northern Virginia Community College
Introduction to Theatre Six Parts of a Play Character
This site tells of Aristotle's six parts of a play. It goes into detail on the Character and the different terms that describe different character types.
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Creative Drama & Theatre Education Resource Site
Contains a large amount of information on creative drama including classroom ideas, theater games, plays for performance, and more.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Much Ado About Nothing Study Guide [Pdf]
This is a 10-page PDF study guide for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing prepared by Barbara McKean for Montana Shakepeare in the Schools, Montana State University - Bozeman. It includes information about characters in the play, a...
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