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Writing Scripts Drama Genre Mini-Unit Natalie Holt Target Age Group: 4, 5, 6 grades Lesson time: About 45 minutes per day Utah CORE Standards: Standard 8:1:a) Generate ideas for writing by reading, discussing, researching, and reflecting on personal experiences. Standard 8:2:c) Compose a written draft using strong verbs and precise and vivid language to convey meaning. Standard 8:6:d) Write in different forms and genres (e.g., essays, editorials speeches, TV scripts, responses to various media). Materials Needed: Peanuts comic strips Reader’s Theater scripts Goldilocks and the Three Hares by Heidi Petach. Published by Scholastic Inc., 1998. (Or an alternative favorite picture book of your class) Several sample plays (examples: “The Case of the Runaway Appetite: A Joe Giles Mystery” by Rob Hales, published in Houghton Mifflin Reading: Expeditions, Houghton Mifflin, 2001; “Mexicali Soup” adapted from a story by Kathryn Hitte and William D. Hayes, and “The Magic Bookshelf“ by Patricia Clapp, in Never a Worm This Long, D.C. Heath and Company, 1989. Frankenstein audio clip and script Useful Resources: Theatre of the Mind: Writing and Producing Radio Dramas in the Classroom by Don Kisner. Revised Edition, Balance Publishing Company, 2003. Available at Reader’s Theater scripts by Aaron Shepard. Available at /rt/RTE.html Adventures in Old-Time Radio: Frankenstein . Released by Radio Spirits, 2001. Available at Vocabulary/Terms to Teach: Play: the stage representation of an action or story Script: the written text of a play or broadcast Act: one of the main divisions of an act Scene: where, when, and the surrounding environmental details where the current action in the play takes place Characters: the people in the play Narrator: a character who tells part of the story line, but does not act in the play Dialogue: