Summer Poem

Summer Poem  Who doesn’t love summer? This short and sweet poem provides a great opportunity for students in grades K-3 to practice imitation and collaboration skills. Students can work in pairs or small groups to imitate all the different summer activities mentioned. You may choose to integrate Language Arts by discussing how the author creates … Read more

Charlene Poem

Charlene Poem This bully picked on the wrong kid! In this whimsical poem, the narrator reduces their classroom bully to a single ear. Students in grades 2-5 may use this poem to practice Action/Reaction, Problem-Solving and Transformation skills. Additionally, you may choose to integrate Character Education with a discussion of Anti-Bullying strategies. We have also … Read more

The Well

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.

Ghost Who Couldn’t Scare Lesson

Ghost Who Couldn't Scare Lesson

Ghost Who Couldn’t Scare Lesson: Audience Behaviors Objective: students analyze how audiences or viewers make drama better. This story about a ghost who wants to learn to scare people focuses on friendship and the unpleasantness of being a bully.   Students discuss audience behaviors that support live presentations and how respectfully responding to the work of … Read more

The Dragon Kite

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 Old Statue Maker

The Old Statue Maker story  This is a story that works with the idea of friendships.  You can use this as a warm-up: have the students enact this story in movement only as you tell it.  It works with the skills of Imagination, Playwriting, and Story Elements: Theme.

The Apple

The Apple story This is a story with an ant and a grasshopper with a focus on how self-esteem, cooperation, and problem solving in this story reflect real life situations.  You can warmup with the actions and movements of the characters.  This story works with the skills of Imagination, Movement, Speaking/ Dialogue, and Transformation: Animals.

The Ghost Who Couldn’t Scare

The Ghost Who Couldn’t Scare story This story was inspired by an old railroad car and tracks I saw for years sitting on the prairie as I drove to visit my parents in Western Illinois.  Weeds grew up around that railroad car and I’m sure people had forgotten all about it.  This is the story … Read more

Scareman

Scareman story  This story is used for younger children to work on problem solving and the 5 senses.  Stories sometimes have problems that will need to be solved in order to act them out.  These are called “actor problems.”  It is an actor’s job to think through these problems and find possible solutions. This story … Read more

Lone Bear – a FREE drama story

Lone Bear – a FREE Drama story Friendship is explored in this tale inspired by “The Caveman” story [requires membership].  Play them both. We offer many resources for teachers, teaching artists, and others wanting to integrate drama into their teaching.  The following original story was written specifically for use in drama.  Have fun adapting it to meet … Read more