LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 2

The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.

Objective 2.05

Create dramatizations based on texts.

Resources aligned to this objective

Lesson plans on the web

Masks and Aesop's fables
Students learn on of Aesop's fables, make simple masks, and retell the fable as part of a Greek chorus using masks. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 English Language Arts, Theatre Arts Education, and Visual Arts Education)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Readers theatre
Students develop scripts, perform in groups, and practice using their voice to depict characters from texts. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 2–5 English Language Arts and Theatre Arts Education)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Twelve dancers
Students study the musical Brothers of the Knight and a Grimm Brothers' folktale called “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” and act out four main events in each of the tales. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Theatre Arts Education)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Uppity farm animals
Students analyze problems and create solutions by dramatizing the story, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type and the poem, “Farmer Brown Has a Problem” by Diane Ambur. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 Theatre Arts Education)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Using writing and role-play to engage the reluctant writer
Students explore the different characters in the story The Three Little Javalinas and then select one of the characters to write a letter to the author in role. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Theatre Arts Education)
Provider: IRA/NCTE