Celebrate Our Unsung Heroes

In case you weren’t aware, March was Women’s History Month. Celebrating the contributions of women to history, though, needn’t be … More

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

Here are two plays in one package with which to celebrate and teach about Presidents’ Day. The first, President’s Day … More

In addition to all the MLK plays featured in my last post, here’s more great reader’s theater for Black History … More

I appreciate the folks at Teach.org. Their mission is to recruit future teachers to a profession that is apparently not … 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

Fairies waving candied wands… Goblins drooling chocolate malt… Halloween has such a bizarre place in our classrooms. In my school … More

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

Before you crack those text books or assign that homework reading, how about blasting away all that summer slog with … More