BOOK GUIDES
Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest, covers the serious topics of colonialism and imperialism, making this work perfect…
Because The Taming of the Shrew deals with relationships between several different "courting" couples, it can capture…
WORKSHEETS
Encourage creativity outside the classroom with these printable finger puppets from The Backyardigans. Children will…
LESSON PLANS
Readers Theatre is an oral reading activity that invites children to become the characters in favorite books and…
ASSESSMENT
The organization, elements of drama writing, grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling of a written piece are scored in…
Students learn to summarize one chapter from a Harry Potter book and write a one scene script for it.
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide for Shakespeare's Othello provides a variety of ideas and activities to…
Explore teaching activities to be used before, during, and after reading Shakespeare's plays.
Explore Shakespeare's Richard III includes a variety of activities and discussion questions to stimulate students'…
Explore Macbeth includes a literary overview, suggestions for teaching the play, extended learning activities, and…
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide for Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun contains an annotated list of characters,…
Love, villainy, friendship, parent-child relationships, society, and customs – Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing…
Build background knowledge in 19th-century history and culture with the lesson planning resources in this teacher's…
Utilize the resources in this teacher's guide to explore the historic, cultural, and linguistic significance of…
Introduce students to the common themes in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice through the pre-reading activities in…
To use Readers Theater with social studies, students read an historical novel, then select one part of it to script.…
This sample script can be used as a basis for a Readers Theater production.
Bring The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane to life by having pupils practice dramatizing and reading aloud from this…
Use a printable that contains three different brief rhymes that students can perform with accompanying gestures.
Student work in groups of three or four to pick a scene or event that they will present as a skit.
This 24-page teacher's guide to The Importance of Being Earnest focuses on themes, character analysis, and drama-based…
This printable teacher's guide to Anton Chekhov: The Major Plays focuses on The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, and The…
The plays in The Mousetrap and Other Plays cover Agatha Christie's work from 1944 to 1960 and are accessible to all…
Use performance-based teaching techniques to unlock the language of Shakespeare's romantic comedy A Midsummer Night's…
