children's plays, american

Presents an introduction to immigration in a readers' theater format.

Help build students' reading fluency and build awareness of important people in U.S. history through fact-based, original plays about 22 famous Americans. These read-aloud biographical plays provide kids with the repeated practice they need to read with speed, automaticity, and expression-the key elements of fluency. Background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links round out this versatile resource. A great way to connect social studies content with reading.

A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Contains seven short plays for two actors about popular holidays, including Halloween, Christmas, and Fourth of July, and includes staging notes and costume suggestions.

A collection of eleven plays for children by Hispanic American authors, five presented in English, four in Spanish, and two in both languages.

Presents seven thirty-minute plays for primary children on such themes as Christmas, Halloween, and the first day of school.

Rudy anxiously prepares for and then goes out on a first date with an attractive girl who is older than he is.

A collection of eleven one-act, royalty-free plays for young people, based on traditional Hispanic stories, legends, and folktales.

An old woodcarver named Geppiggo carves a wooden piggy bank he names Pignocchio and the kind fairy princess Sue makes him come alive with the promise he would become a real pig if he was good and didn't tell a lie.

A collection of sketches and skits based on classic folktales of absurd behavior, such as those about the Merry Men of Gotham and the "Wise" Men of Chelm.