Free Play for the Fourth

When I wrote Read Aloud Plays: Symbols of America for Scholastic back in 2002, it was supposed to be a … More

If The President Did His Own Taxes…

If the President had to prepare his own taxes, I’d bet our tax code would be a lot simpler. If … More

Technology has it benefits, but sometimes I wish I could go back to teaching the way it was when there … More

Whether for RT or stage performance, here are half-a-dozen kid-friendly scripts to ramp up your MLK Day celebrations and Black … More

My class of fifth graders staged a nifty trio of plays recently. Eric paced about the stage as the insanely … More

A few weeks ago I blogged tongue-in-cheek about swiping reader’s theater scripts through nefarious means, so I thought I’d follow … More

I’m sure you remember those big FBI warnings at the beginning of our old VHS movies. Aren’t you glad the … More

While digging around for something to write about this week I stumbled upon a transcript from a pretty cool podcast … More

My plays often make return appearances in Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine, such as The Daring Escape of Henry “Box” Brown this … More

The Common Core requires that we teach students to “evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event … More