Tales Retold Story Is the Wicked Witch really so wicked? What did the Big Bad Wolf do that was so bad? Is Prince Charming’s life not quite as charmed as we thought? Students in grades 3-8 will love this hilarious retelling of classic fairy tales. With plenty of active roles available, this piece is a … Read more
Señor Coyote Acts as a Judge What better way to teach action-reaction than a story packed with mischievous animal characters, including a clever coyote, a sneaky snake, and a righteous rabbit? In this lesson, students in grades 3-8 can practice collaboration, imitation, transformation, and action-reaction skills. By presenting their dramas, students can get hands-on experience … Read more
The Story of Rabbit, Elephant, and Whale In this story, the rabbit outsmarts the elephant and the whale, both of which use their physical size against the rabbit. Students like to act out the different parts in this story as they learn that sometimes being wise can counter physical size. This story is also designed … Read more
The Well story This story is designed to be played by a group of 4, but it can be told with any number of students. In this story, students learn to identify and imitate emotions such as pride, silliness, anger, fear, frustration, joy, and shock.
The Kid Who Loved Cookies story A story written in script form with dialogue for students and teacher to play together – a wonderful way to introduce sequencing as a part of everyday life.
The Little Hole story Based on science, this story is a key component to the Transformation in Landforms unit. How do little holes become large islands? You can also use this story with upper grades to show how writers might make a drama of landform transformations
Mom Figures it Out story Students make inferences and learn about the five senses with this delightful tale about a brand new ball. A full lesson plan was developed around this story to teach students how locomotor and nonlocomotor movements assist with space in drama.
The Dragon Kite story Use this story to discuss cooperation, friendship, and making choices as they relate to the story and real life situations. This story works well with the Kite Activity.
The Haunted House story This story can be used with the Body Objects Lesson. The students work in groups and part of the activity is to identify different emotions from the story.
Why the Earth is Green story This story was written for students studying drama and the solar system. In science, this can be used when the students are learning the characteristics of the planets.