Digital Resources for Classroom Teachers
Integrating Drama with Text:
Fiction and Non-Fiction
A collection of lesson plans for multiple grade levels integrating simple drama strategies with Language Arts.
Each lesson includes:
1) Step-by-step lessons with fiction or non-fiction texts,
2) Brief demonstration videos on how to apply simple drama strategies,
3) Downloadable handouts on the texts, drama strategies and student handouts.
LOWER ELEMENTARY
Rain School
by James Rumford
Students creatively compare their experiences of a first day at school with the that of a group of children in Africa who build their own school.
ELEMENTARY
Bridge of Flowers: A Filipino folktale
The teacher and students improvise a family meeting to discuss what to do about the youngest daughter’s behavior
The Story of Ruby Bridges
by Robert Coles
The teacher and students improvise a family meeting to discuss what to do about the youngest daughter’s behavior
UPPER ELEMENTARY / MIDDLE SCHOOL
The Friend who Changed my Life
by Pam Munoz Ryan
Students enact the characters and relationships in this story about the thin line between friends and bullies.
Henry Hudson
(Beyond the Sea of Ice by Joan Elizabeth Goodman)
Students dramatize the story of the mutiny against Henry Hudson.
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Email Tamara Smith at HTY, edadmin@htyweb.org