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Tag: classroom plays

Reader’s Theater for MLK Day

MLK Day feels especially important this year. Let’s face it, we have a lot of work to do if we’re … More

Black History Month, Civil Rights, classroom plays, Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins, John Lewis, Mack Lewis, Mackowiecki Lewis, Martin Luther King, MLK Day, play scripts, Read aloud plays, reader’s theater, Zoomer’s theater

Girl Power!

Let’s start with Sybil Ludington. She’s known as the “female Paul Revere.” Although her story is less well known, her … More

Black History Month, classroom plays, Claudette Colvin, Deborah Samson, girl power, Mack Lewis, Mackowiecki Lewis, Philip Hoose, plat scripts, plays for kids, readers theater, Ruby Bridges, Shyeann Webb, Sybil Ludington, The Secret Soldier, Twice Toward Justice, women in history, Women's History Month

How to Create that Interactive Vibe

I’ve heard many teachers lament that this online instruction deal isn’t what they signed-up for, yet here we are. What … More

classroom plays, daily writing instruction, Mack Lewis, Mackowiecki Lewis, play scripts for kids, Read aloud plays, readers theater, remote instruction ideas, Storyworks magazine, Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Zoom Aloud Plays, Zoomer's Theater

How to Commemorate Juneteenth

Here’s my most poignant play—and it’s perfect for celebrating Juneteenth. Based on actual slave narratives, Freedom for the First Time … More

Black history, Civil War, classroom plays, Jubilee, Juneteenth, Mack Lewis, Mackowiecki Lewis, Read aloud plays, readers theater, slavery, Zoomer's Theater

Rikki Tikki Tavi

Originally published by Scholastic, here’s another of my classroom plays getting new life on TeachersPayTeachers! Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Rudyard Kipling’s classic short … More

classic short stories, classroom plays, cobras, Jungle Books, Mack Lewis, Mackowiecki Lewis, mongoose, play scripts, Read aloud plays, readers theater, Rikki Tikki Tavi, Rudyard Kipling

Pip & the Prisoner

When most people think about Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, they land on Miss Havisham and her creepy old mansion … More

balanced literacy, Charles Dickens, classroom plays, Great Expectations, Mack Lewis, Mackowiecki, Magwitch, Pip, play scripts, Read aloud plays, readers theater

How to Celebrate the Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary

I was seven years old when the Apollo 11 mission blasted off for the moon in mid-July of 1969. I … More

Apollo 11, classroom plays, elementary science instruction, Mack Lewis, Mackowiecki Lewis, Man on the moon, Moon landing, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Read aloud plays, readers theater, space exploration, Walter Cronkite

Here’s Help for that Holiday Chaos!

That last week before Christmas vacation can be a real doozy. While thoughts of sugar plums may not derail that … More

A Christmas Carol, Christmas plays, Christmas reader's theater, classroom play scripts, classroom plays, Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge, Gabriel Grub, Gift of the Magi, holiday plays, holiday reader's theater, Mack Lewis, Mackowiecki Lewis, Maupassant, O. Henry, Read aloud plays, readers theater, The Necklace

See the Movie. Stage the Play!

Take advantage of high student interest in the Peter Rabbit movie by enacting my read aloud play script, The Tale … More

Beatrix Potter, classroom plays, Mack Lewis, Mackowiecki Lewis, Peter Rabbit, Read aloud plays, readers theater, Scholastic, Storyworks

How to Create a Library Culture

One of the greatest things my mother ever did for me was regularly take me to the public library when … More

Black Boy, Black History Month, classroom plays, love of reading, Mack Lewis, Mackowiecki Lewis, play scripts for kids, public libraries, Read aloud plays, readers theater, Richard Wright, The Library Card

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