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25 Science Plays for Emergent Readers

2000
Reproducible plays with extension activities that build literacy and invite kids to explore favorite science topics.

Show time at the Polk Street School

plays you can do yourself or in the classroom
1992
A collection of three plays featuring the Polk Street School characters: "The Candy Corn Contest, " "The Secret at the Polk Street School, " and "Fancy Feet." Includes staging, costume, and prop suggestions.

The Christmas magic-wagon

a play
1975
A play in which the Jason family receives back more than they give when they decide to make Christmas a little brighter for the less fortunate families along their road.

Small plays for special days

1977
Seven short plays for two actors about popular holidays with staging notes and costume suggestions.

Charlotte Shakespeare and Annie the Great

1989
After prodding her best friend Annie into trying out for the lead in the play she has written for their sixth grade class, Charlotte feels herself losing control of her own play and experiences jealousy when Annie suddenly gets all the attention.

Twenty ways to lose your best friend

1993
Emma loses her best friend when she votes for another girl to get the lead role in the class play.

Martha helps the rebel

a narrative poem
1975
In 1780 a young girl helps an American soldier pursued by the British to escape.

General George at Yorktown

a story in play form
1975
A British drummer boy witnesses the last moments of the battle of Yorktown.

Theater magic

behind the scenes at a children's theater
1986
Follows the Children's Theatre Company as it produces an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale, " describing how the play is planned, designed, cast, and rehearsed for its opening.

Death of a salesman

certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem
1949
Pulitzer Prize-winning play concerned with the despair of a sixty-three-year-old traveling salesman when he is forced to face the reality he has evaded all his life.

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