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