Drama Centers

Studying The Crucible ? Looking to give students some context for the play? Then this product is for you! Introduction power point includes:

-About the Author

-The Salem Witch Trials

-McCarthyism

-Story Overview

-Themes

-Symbols

-Essential Questions

A fun, simple toddler and preschool friendly dragon yoga sequence.

Poses: Superhero (locust pose), cobra, down dog, mountain pose

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas - A Fun and Humorous Readers Theatre Script

Bring the magic of Christmas and the fun of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas into your classroom with this Readers Theatre script, designed to engage and delight students in Years 3-5! This playful twist on the classic holiday story keeps the Grinch’s mischievous spirit but adds humor and a heartwarming message about kindness and community, making it the perfect addition to your classroom Christmas activities.

Why You'll Love This Script:

• Christmas Spirit & Teamwork: Emphasises important themes of empathy and friendship, creating opportunities for students to discuss kindness and holiday cheer and what Christmas is really about.
• Character Variety: Includes fun, memorable characters—like the Grinch, Cindy Lou Who, and even Max, the Grinch’s slightly sassy dog.
• Easy to Use: No prep required! Print and go for an engaging readers theatre activity that’s ideal for end-of-term fun or a Christmas-themed lesson.
• Cross-Curriculum Benefits: Builds confidence in reading aloud, encourages expressive storytelling, and enhances comprehension skills as students engage with the text and each other. This readers theatre script is written in rhyme just like the classic The Grinch Who Stole Christmas story.

Perfect for:

• Christmas celebrations, literacy centres, drama class or just some end of year fun!
• Developing reading fluency and teamwork through readers theatre.
• Teachers looking to create a joyful, laughter filled atmosphere during the holiday season.

Product Includes:

• Detailed, easy to follow script with 8 unique scenes for Years 3-5
• Tips for character assignment and staging, making it easy to adapt to different group sizes

This readers theatre script is a fantastic way to bring the spirit of Christmas alive in your classroom while supporting literacy skills in a fun and engaging way. Your students will love being part of the Grinch’s journey as they learn valuable lessons about generosity and joy. Add it to your Christmas readers theatre activities today and create holiday memories that will last long after the season ends!

Looking for more Christmas readers theatre scripts?

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

Need more Christmas activities for your upper elementary/primary classroom?

Christmas Scavenger Hunt

Christmas Activity Booklet

Christmas Writing Around The World

This engaging activity combines hands-on crafting with imaginative play to offer a multitude of benefits for young learners.

Benefits for Students:

Cognitive Development:

• Problem-solving: Children will need to think creatively to assemble their burgers, considering the order of the ingredients and the best way to attach them.
• Sequencing: Constructing the burger involves following a specific sequence of steps, enhancing their understanding of order and process.
• Spatial Awareness: Arranging the ingredients on the bun requires spatial reasoning and visualization skills.

Language and Literacy:

• Vocabulary: The activity introduces new vocabulary related to food, cooking, and restaurants, expanding their word bank.
• Narrative Skills: During dramatic play, children can create stories and dialogues, practicing their storytelling abilities.
• Communication Skills: Engaging in role-play encourages effective communication and interaction with peers.

Social-Emotional Development:

• Cooperation: Working together to create burgers or role-playing in a restaurant setting fosters collaboration and teamwork.
• Empathy: Taking on different roles allows children to understand and appreciate diverse perspectives.
• Self-expression: Through creative play, children can express their thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

Fine Motor Skills:

• Dexterity: Cutting, gluing, and manipulating small objects like burger patties and lettuce leaves refines fine motor control.
• Hand-eye Coordination: Precisely placing ingredients on the bun requires coordination between hand and eye movements.

By combining these elements, the Hamburger Craft and Dramatic Play activity provides a fun and enriching learning experience that promotes holistic development in young children.

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Looking for a tasty way to engage your little ones in learning? Say hello to our delightful Make a Smoothie Pretend Play activity! Designed for preschool and kindergarten students, this interactive math activity is both educational and entertaining

Not only is this activity fun, but it also provides valuable learning opportunities. As your child follows the recipes, they'll practice counting, develop their fine motor skills through scissor practice, and learn about healthy eating habits—all while having a blast!

Ideal for children aged 4-6, this activity kit offers an engaging way to explore numbers and cooking. Let your little one dive into the world of pretend play, where they'll blend, mix, and create their very own smoothie masterpieces!

What comes in the product:

- 4 Blender Sheet

- 2 Cut out sheets (7 different ingredients)

- 8 Smoothie recipes

- 7 pages to print

- A4 paper Size

- Best to print on card stock (Colors will vary depending on printer used)

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Bring the charm and vibrancy of an Italian restaurant to your classroom with our "Restaurant Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Waiter Pretend Restaurant Bunting Italian." This delightful and colorful bunting is designed to enhance your restaurant dramatic play area, creating an authentic and inviting environment for imaginative play.

Product Highlights:

• Italian Restaurant Bunting: Includes letters spelling out "RESTAURANT" and features classic Italian restaurant symbols.
• Vibrant Design: Each letter and symbol is designed with bright, engaging colors and clear, bold text to capture children's attention and spark their imagination.
• Easy to Use: Simply print and cut out the letters and symbols, then string them together to create a lively and inviting bunting for your roleplay area.
• Durable: Laminate the letters and symbols for added durability and repeated use, ensuring your restaurant bunting stays vibrant and intact throughout many play sessions.

Why This Resource Is Essential:

• Enhances Roleplay: Provides a realistic touch to your Italian restaurant dramatic play area, making the experience more engaging and authentic for children.
• Promotes Creativity: Encourages imaginative play as children immerse themselves in their roles as chefs, waiters, and customers.
• Supports Social Skills: Helps children develop important social skills such as communication, collaboration, and empathy as they interact in their pretend restaurant setting.
• Easy to Set Up: Simple to print, cut, and assemble, allowing you to quickly create a captivating and immersive play area.

Ideal For:

• Teachers looking to create an engaging and educational dramatic play area in their classroom.
• Educators aiming to promote social-emotional learning and creativity through roleplay activities.
• Parents and caregivers wanting to set up a fun and educational pretend play restaurant at home.

How to Use:

• Print and Cut: Print the bunting letters and symbols, then cut them out.
• Assemble: String the letters and symbols together to create the Italian restaurant bunting.
• Decorate: Hang the bunting in your dramatic play area to enhance the restaurant setting and create an inviting environment for imaginative play.

Create a vibrant and engaging Italian restaurant roleplay area with our "Restaurant Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Waiter Pretend Restaurant Bunting Italian." This resource provides everything you need to add a realistic touch to your pretend play restaurant, helping children develop essential social, emotional, and communication skills through imaginative play

This fun and engaging paleontology pretend play center encourages students to play imaginary roles of being a paleontologist. Students will engage in literacy, self-regulation, fine/gross motor skills, and social skills.

What is dramatic play?

It’s the kind of play where kids take on roles and act them out as a way of exploring themselves and their surroundings. By pretending to be someone—or something—else, children can learn new ways to express themselves, share thoughts and ideas, and even get in touch with their feelings.

Dramatic play is a very important part of childhood development. Students will engage in literacy, self-regulation, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and social skills. They will be interacting with one another in positive ways and learning so much without realizing it!

Here’s what you’ll get:

• Station Labels - Research Lab, Sorting, Weigh, Measurement, Observation
• Open/Closed Signs
• Supply Labels - Lab Tools, Digging Tools, Shovel, Small Brush, Hard Hat, Large Brush, Pick Axe, Gloves, Goggles, Flasks, Bone Bags, Weighing Scale, Fossils, Clipboard, Test Tubes, Droppers, Notebooks, Bones, Maps, Chisel, Magnifying Glass, Bucket, Compass, Rocks, Measuring Tapes
• Caution Staff Only Sign
• Campsite Sign
• 2 Pages of Printable Fossils
• Fossil Sorting Pages - By Size, By Type (fossil, bone, egg)
• Fossil Site Sign
• Field Observation Sheet
• Dinosaur Dig Checklist

All of the hard work is done for you. Simply print and cut out the LOW PREP pages and laminate them for use year after year.

Optionally you can add hard goods to make it more interactive.

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Feeling like your lessons in your curriculum are forgettable or lack zing? Make learning stick with this dramatic play and catchy rhymes. Hard G and Soft G is just another rules based lesson, right? Oh, NOT today, my friend. You have found the Hard G/Soft G full lesson plan that will have your students begging for more. This 39 page activity pack has everything you need to bring the lesson to life. From step by step teacher directions to an assessment of the skill, this complete unit is packed full of engaging activities. Come take a look at what's inside and learn Hard G and Soft G with The 3 Billy Goats Gruff!

Take a at my preview for a better look at what is included and the quality of the design.

I also have my Hard and Soft C Pack has another great dramatic play and rhymes-so check that out when you teach that lesson. Or better yet, GET THE BUNDLE and save some $. Getting 2 AWESOMES in one download. YES!

What You'll Get Inside:

• Full Lesson Plan for Hard G
• Full Lesson Plan for Soft G
• One Cat Crown for structured dramatic play
• 3 Goat Crowns for structured dramatic play
• 6 Goat Bodies with different letters
• 5 Grass Tufts-with letters to learn the rules
• 1 Giant Troll Crown
• 1 Interactive poem anchor chart for Hard G
• 1 Poem Anchor Chart for Hard G in Color
• 1 Black/White Student Worksheet for Hard G
• 1 Interactive poem anchor chart for Soft G
• 1 Poem Anchor Chart for Soft G in Color
• 1 Black/White Student Worksheet for Soft G
• 1 Colored Anchor chart with both poems to save space
• 1 Interactive poem anchor chart for Soft G
• Bump Game Rules, Directions and 3 Versions of the Game
• 2 Versions of Word Sorts
• 1 Bonus Giant Troll...because kids LOVE the Troll!

This pack is perfect for late Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade phonics learners and any student learning phonics rules. It includes whole class instruction, with teacher directed dramatic play, poems, guided practice, a game for a center rotation and independent work. Designed to keep even the most wiggly students engaged.

Common Core Alignment:

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3: I can know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3: I can decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

What's in the Lesson Plan?

• Dramatic Play involving Goats /g/ and Giant /j/ Troll on a Bridge /j/
• Students learn a poem for the rules behind Hard G and the rules behind Soft G
• As the poem is learned, the dramatic play of the Three Billy Goats Gruff continues with each line as the other students perform arm motions to the rhyme.
• Students interact with the anchor charts to solidify WHEN g says /g/ and WHEN g says /j/
• Students create their own anchor chart to further stick the learning
• The lesson wraps up with an anchor chart for the room for reference to the Hard G and Soft G rule with the characters of Cat and Mice that students won't forget.
• Follow up with a Bump it Game in Center rotations for a few days and finally, an assessment of the skill with a Word Sort with variations for different learning levels.

You will LOVE this because:

It is DONE for you. AND it's pretty cute.

The students will beg to say the poem and 'do the acting' (Secretly learning...SHH teacher magic)

It makes a sometimes boring topic come to life and the students will REMEMBER the rule and apply it. WIN. WIN.

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Dive into the festive spirit of Pancake Day and Shrove Tuesday with these engaging Paper Craft Crown Templates, perfect for learners in kindergarten, preschool & early elementary. This hands on art set offers 6 black & white designs. Ideal for classroom activities, morning work, centers or as a creative task for early finishers. Transform your students learning into an interactive celebration of Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday, making it an unforgettable part of their educational journey.

Ways to use these crown crafts:

1. Literacy Integration: Integrate the Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday crown craft into literacy lessons by having your students write short stories or poems about Pancake Day and then present them wearing their crowns.
2. Math Connections: Incorporate math lessons by challenging students to solve pancake-themed math problems before they earn pieces of their crown to color and assemble.
3. Cultural Studies: Use the crown-making activity as an opportunity to teach students about the history and significance of Shrove Tuesday and how it is celebrated in different parts of the world. After the discussion, students can decorate their crowns with symbols or phrases that reflect what they've learned about the traditions and practices of various cultures on this day.
4. Community Building: You can use these crafts to foster a sense of community and teamwork in the classroom by organizing a Pancake Day parade or a crown-wearing ceremony.

Side Pieces Included:

1. Pancakes: Stack 'Em High!
2. Syrup and Smiles on Shrove Tuesday.
3. Flip, Flip, Hooray for Pancake Day!
4. Batter Up for Shrove Tuesday Fun!
5. Flipping Fun on Shrove Tuesday!

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Extension chant to the book "One Lonely Fish". A great addition to this book which does not have too many words and perfect for keeping a steady beat!

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Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream? Looking for a way to engage your students? Our graphic organizers go perfectly with this timeless classic. Helping your students learn vocabulary, theme, plot, and symbols. This includes 5 graphic organizers and a rubric for easy grading

The Witch Who Lost Her Magic - Halloween Readers Theatre Script for Year 3-5

Description: Bring the magic of Halloween into your classroom with this fun and engaging Readers Theatre script: The Witch Who Lost Her Magic!

Perfect for Year 3-5 students, this Halloween themed script tells the enchanting story of Hazel, a mischievous witch who loses her magic and must perform acts of kindness to restore it. This delightful readers theatre script will have your students laughing, learning, and improving their reading fluency, all while celebrating the spooky season!

What's Inside:

• A 5 scene, easy to read Halloween Readers Theatre script.
• 6 engaging characters: Hazel the Witch, Broomie the talking broomstick, Ollie the Owl, Ginger the Goblin, Flora the Fairy, and a Narrator.
• Themed for Halloween, with a message of kindness and teamwork.
• Designed for Year 3-5 readers, with dialogue that encourages expressive reading and collaboration.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Perfect for Halloween: Get your students excited about Halloween with a script that's spooky but sweet!
• Builds Reading Fluency: This Readers Theatre script offers repeated reading opportunities, helping students improve their fluency, expression, and comprehension.
• Engages All Learners: The fun, quirky characters and magical storyline will keep even the most reluctant readers engaged.
• No Prep, Just Print and Go: Simple to use in literacy centers, guided reading, or even for a class performance. All you need to do is print and enjoy!

How It Works:

• Perfect for group reading or small performances, this Readers Theatre script encourages teamwork and reading confidence.
• A great fit for Halloween literacy centers, as a classroom play, or even as a fun end of October activity.

Looking for more Halloween resources? Make sure you check out these, they are perfect for halloween literacy centres...

Halloween Readers Theatre - The Ghost Who Lost His Scare

Halloween Description Writing

Halloween Writing Prompts

Halloween Reading Comprehension - The Witch Who Changed Her Ways

Halloween Activities Booklet

Halloween Scavenger Hunt

Make sure you follow Captivating Kids for more resources for upper primary/elementary!

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This engaging activity offers two creative approaches to exploring Thanksgiving traditions and food.

Option 1: Dramatic Play

• Laminated Play Food: Create a set of laminated food items, such as turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and rolls.
• Dramatic Play Area: Place the laminated food items in the dramatic play area, along with play plates, utensils, and tablecloths.
• Student Engagement: Encourage students to create their own Thanksgiving dinner plates by selecting and arranging the food items.

Option 2: Arts and Crafts

• Food Cutouts: Provide students with pre-cut shapes of various Thanksgiving foods.
• Creative Assembly: Allow students to color, decorate, and cut out the food items.
• Thanksgiving Plate: Have students glue the food items onto a paper plate to create their own personalized Thanksgiving dinner.

Benefits for Students:
Both approaches offer a multitude of benefits for students:
Cognitive Development:

• Problem-Solving: Students must decide which foods to include on their plates, considering their preferences and dietary restrictions.
• Decision-Making: They can practice making choices about food portions and combinations.
• Sequencing: Students can sequence the steps involved in preparing a Thanksgiving meal, from cooking to serving.

Social-Emotional Development:

• Cooperation: Students can work together to set up the dramatic play area or assist each other with the arts and crafts project.
• Communication: They can discuss their food choices, preferences, and Thanksgiving traditions with peers.
• Empathy: By imagining themselves as hosts of a Thanksgiving dinner, students can develop empathy for others.

Language Development:

• Vocabulary: Students can learn new vocabulary related to Thanksgiving, such as "turkey," "stuffing," and "cranberry sauce."
• Sentence Structure: They can practice using descriptive language to describe the appearance, taste, and smell of different foods.
• Storytelling: Students can create stories about their Thanksgiving experiences, incorporating the food items they have chosen.

Fine Motor Skills:

• Cutting: The arts and crafts approach provides opportunities for students to practice cutting skills.
• Gluing: Students can develop their fine motor skills by gluing the food items to the plate.
• Manipulating Objects: In the dramatic play area, students can practice manipulating the laminated food items and utensils.

By participating in this activity, students can develop a deeper understanding of Thanksgiving traditions, enhance their creativity, and strengthen various cognitive, social-emotional, and language skills.

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Looking for a tasty way to engage your little ones in learning? Say hello to our delightful Make a Smoothie Pretend Play activity! Designed for preschool and kindergarten students, this interactive math activity is both educational and entertaining

Not only is this activity fun, but it also provides valuable learning opportunities. As your child follows the recipes, they'll practice counting, develop their fine motor skills through scissor practice, and learn about healthy eating habits—all while having a blast!

Ideal for children aged 4-6, this activity kit offers an engaging way to explore numbers and cooking. Let your little one dive into the world of pretend play, where they'll blend, mix, and create their very own smoothie masterpieces!

What comes in the product:

- 4 Blender Sheet

- 2 Cut out sheets (7 different ingredients)

- 8 Smoothie recipes

- 7 pages to print

- A4 paper Size

- Best to print on card stock (Colors will vary depending on printer used)

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Transform your classroom into a bustling pizzeria with our "Restaurant Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Waiter Pretend | Printable DIY Pizza" set. This delightful and interactive resource allows students to create their own pretend pizzas, complete with various toppings and tools. Perfect for fostering creativity, fine motor skills, and social interaction, this set can be laminated for repeated use in the classroom or used as an individual project for kids to take home.

Product Highlights:

• Pizza Base and Cheese Layer: Start with a printable pizza base and a cheese layer that students can assemble to create the foundation of their pizza.

• Variety of Toppings: Includes a range of toppings for students to choose from, allowing them to customize their pizzas:

  • Olives
  • Shrimp
  • Pepperoni
  • Bacon
  • Peppers
  • Mushroom
  • Onion

• Pizza Tools: Enhance the roleplay experience with printable pizza tools:

  • Pizza Cutting Board: Provides a realistic surface for assembling and cutting the pizza.
  • Pizza Roller: Adds authenticity and fun as students pretend to slice their pizzas.

• Versatile Use: This set can be laminated for use in a dramatic play center, ensuring durability and repeated use. Alternatively, it can be used as an individual project for students to create their own pizzas and take them home.

Why This Resource Is Essential:

• Encourages Imaginative Play: Provides a fun and creative activity that allows students to engage in pretend play and explore their culinary skills.
• Develops Fine Motor Skills: Cutting out and assembling the pizza and toppings helps students develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
• Promotes Social Interaction: Encourages students to work together, share, and communicate as they create and serve their pizzas.
• Supports Learning Through Play: Combines play with practical skills, making learning enjoyable and engaging.

Ideal For:

• Teachers looking to create an engaging and educational dramatic play area in their classroom.
• Educators seeking to promote creativity, fine motor skills, and social interaction through roleplay activities.
• Parents and caregivers wanting to provide a fun and educational pretend play project for children at home.

How to Use:

• Print and Prepare: Print the pizza base, cheese layer, toppings, and tools. Laminate them for durability if using in a classroom setting.
• Assemble: Encourage students to cut out the toppings and assemble their pizzas on the pizza base and cheese layer.
• Roleplay: Use the pizza cutting board and pizza roller to enhance the roleplay experience. Students can pretend to slice and serve their pizzas.
• Take Home: For individual projects, allow students to create their pizzas and take them home to share with their families.

Create a vibrant and interactive pizzeria in your classroom with our "Restaurant Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Waiter Pretend | Printable DIY Pizza" set. This resource provides everything you need for a fun and educational pizza-making experience, helping students develop essential skills through imaginative play.

Looking for a fun way to get your students practicing social skills through dramatic pretend play? This spa dramatic play printables set is perfect to incorporate into center time through playing imaginary roles of working at a spa.

What is dramatic play?

It’s the kind of play where kids take on roles and act them out as a way of exploring themselves and their surroundings. By pretending to be someone—or something—else, children can learn new ways to express themselves, share thoughts and ideas, and even get in touch with their feelings.

Dramatic play is a very important part of childhood development. Students will engage in literacy, self-regulation, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and social skills. They will be interacting with one another in positive ways and learning so much without realizing it!

Here’s what you’ll get:

• Spa Hours Sign
• Appointment Cards
• Open and Closed Signs
• Spa Menu
• Check In Sign
• Labels for: Lotion, Towels, Herbal Tea, Aroma Therapy, Flip Flops, Mortar & Pestle, Stones, Candle
• 3 Inspirational Quote Posters

All of the hard work is done for you. Simply print and cut out the LOW PREP pages and laminate them for use year after year.

Optionally you can add hard goods to make it more interactive. For example, toy apples, cash register, scale, play money, etc.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Moira P. says, "This was a fabulous resource for my dramatic play unit and spa day with my granddaughter. We enjoyed a girly day together with the help of this resource."

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Feeling like your lessons in your curriculum are forgettable or lack zing? Make learning stick with this dramatic play and catchy rhymes. Hard C and Soft C is just another rules based lesson, right? Oh, NOT today, my friend. You have found the Hard C/Soft C full lesson plan that will have your students begging for more. This 32 page activity pack has everything you need to bring the lesson to life. From step by step teacher directions to an assessment of the skill, this complete unit is packed full of engaging activities. Come take a look at what's inside and learn Hard C and Soft C with Cat and Mice.

Take a at my preview for a better look at what is included and the quality of the design.

A perfect follow up to this lesson is my Hard and Soft G Pack for another great dramatic play and rhymes-so check that out when you teach that lesson. Or better yet, GET THE BUNDLE and save some $. Getting 2 AWESOMES in one download. YES!

Benefits to your students:

• The learning will STICK
• They will be ENGAGED and excited
• They will master the skill of decoding and spelling hard and soft c
• They will REMEMBER and APPLY the rules

What You'll Get Inside:

Full Lesson Plan for Hard C

Full Lesson Plan for Soft C

One Cat Crown for structured dramatic play

2 Mice Crowns for structured dramatic play

8 Balls of Yarn-with letters to learn the rules

1 Interactive poem anchor chart for Hard C

1 Poem Anchor Chart for Hard C in Color

1 Black/White Student Worksheet for Hard C

1 Interactive poem anchor chart for Soft C

1 Poem Anchor Chart for Soft C in Color

1 Black/White Student Worksheet for Soft C

1 Colored Anchor chart with both poems to save space

1 Interactive poem anchor chart for Soft C

Bump Game Rules, Directions and 3 Versions of the Game

2 Versions of Word Sorts

This pack is perfect for late Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade phonics learners, interventionists and any student learning phonics rules. It includes whole class instruction, with teacher directed dramatic play, poems, guided practice, a game for a center rotation and independent work. Designed to keep even the most wiggly students engaged.

Common Core Alignment:

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3: I can know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3: I can decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

What's in the Lesson Plan?

• Dramatic Play involving a Cat /c/ and some Mice /s/
• Students learn a poem for the rules behind Hard C and the rules behind Soft C
• As the poem is learned, the dramatic play of the Cat and Mouse continues with each line as the other students perform arm motions to the rhyme.
• Students interact with the anchor charts to solidify WHEN c says /c/ and WHEN c says /s/
• Students create their own anchor chart to further stick the learning
• The lesson wraps up with an anchor chart for the room for reference to the Hard C and Soft C rule with the characters of Cat and Mice that students won't forget.
• Follow up with a Bump it Game in Center rotations for a few days and finally, an assessment of the skill with a Word Sort with variations for different learning levels.

You will LOVE this because:

It is DONE for you. AND it's pretty cute.

The students will beg to say the poem and 'do the acting' (Secretly learning...SHH teacher magic)

It makes a sometimes boring topic come to life and the students will REMEMBER the rule and apply it. WIN. WIN.

Click the follow ⭐next to my name and get notified when my newest products post.  

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Go to your My Purchases page and beside each purchase (after 24hrs) you'll see a Leave a Review button. Click that and you can leave a quick rating and a comment. You will get 1 credit for every spent to use on future purchases! I value your feedback greatly, and it helps me create more products to help you!

My passion and goal is to create products that help you make learning COME ALIVE to your students. Thank you so much for your support of my store.

Use these chants to introduce more literature into the classroom and make the books you are using relevant to music! Use the chant to "Freeda the Cheetah" to explore movement and play along with rhythm sticks. Follow up with a lesson on rhyming words. The chant for "One Lonely Fish" is perfect for keeping a steady beat and making this book more engaging for your little ones. Use the chant in "Pokko and the Drum" to play along with Pokko the frog on her adventures. "The Very Quiet Cricket" is great for teaching whisper voice. Finally, try to wake up the elephant from his sleep in "Wakey, Wakey, Elephant"! Use the additional activities with the some of the chants to extend your lessons. Can be used across several grade levels PreK-2nd grade.

REMINDERS

1. If you have any questions about this product or any of my products, feel free to email me at creatingmusicalliterature@gmail.com

2. Your purchase of this product is for SINGLE USE ONLY. Please purchase additional licenses to share with other teachers. Copyright © 2022 Creating Musical Literature. All rights reserved.

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Reading Romeo and Juliet? Looking for a way to engage your students? Our graphic organizers go perfectly with this timeless classic. Helping your students learn vocabulary, theme, plot, and symbols. This includes 5 graphic organizers and a rubric for easy grading.

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Get your students tuned into Fractured Fairytales in your classroom with this 'The Three Little Pigs and the Wolf Allergy' Readers Theatre Script**.** This funny and heartwarming script is an engaging and entertaining way to teach students about fractured fairytales.

In this Readers Theatre script, your students will act out the Fairytale of the Three Little Pigs, but with a twist! This Fractured Fairytale tells a different version of the classic tale, where the pigs are allergic to wolves and sneeze their houses down. The wolf, Wolfie, is actually trying to help the pigs by warning them about their fragile homes.

Through a series of humorous and heartwarming scenes, your students will act out this fractured fairy tale and learn the importance of teamwork and understanding.

Key Features:

Educational and Entertaining: This fractured fairy tale readers theatre script combines education and entertainment seamlessly, making it an ideal teaching tool. It's perfect for a fairy tale unit or study! Perfect for literacy sessions or the drama classroom!

Character Development: The fairytale characters in the script are relatable and well-developed, allowing your students to connect with them on a personal level.

Engaging Dialogue: The witty and heartwarming dialogue keeps students engaged and eager to see what happens next, making it an excellent choice for classroom readings and performances.

Literacy Sessions or Performing Arts Lessons: Perfect to integrate into your literacy centres or your social emotional learning lessons! A great way for your students to study fractured fairytales and then create their own.

Lesson on Teamwork and Understanding: The central theme of teamwork and understanding is woven throughout this fractured fairytale readers theatre script, imparting valuable life lessons to young minds.

Perfect for Years 3 - 6: Suitable for middle-upper elementary students, this script can be adapted for various grade levels, ensuring that every student can benefit from its message of cooperation and empathy.

Fractured Fairy Tales: A fun way to teach Fractured Fairytales and all the wonderful literacy elements that come along with them.

Easy to Use: All you need to do is print, staple, and go!

By using this 'The Three Little Pigs and the Wolf Allergy' Readers Theatre Script, you can explore fractured fairy tales and have fun while you’re at it. Your students will not only enjoy the entertaining story but will also gain a deeper understanding of different perspectives and the power of storytelling.

Simply download, print, staple, and you're good to go! Woo hoo!

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