Primary English: Plays

Engaging lesson ideas, activities and scripts for reading, writing and performing plays with your primary pupils

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Primary School Children Performing A Playscript On Stage

Help your pupils to immerse themselves in plays with this collection of resources for exploring, understanding and writing scripts

To get your young learners warmed up and ready to perform and create, why not explore this hand-picked collection of play resources for primary pupils, with everything from introductory lessons, playscript analysis tasks and group activities to script writing prompts and creative inspiration?

Reading plays

Covering the key features of scripts, including how to read dialogue and stage directions, these are great resources to introduce plays to your pupils.

An Introduction to Drama Texts
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An Introduction to Drama Texts

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An Introduction to Drama Texts is a ten slide PowerPoint presentation designed to help students understand the basic features of a drama text. The resource could be used before a class play is read to help pupils understand how a drama text works. The PowerPoint lesson includes: An example...
Aesop Fables The Lion and the Mouse Guided Reading Script
sue Russell

Aesop Fables The Lion and the Mouse Guided Reading Script

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Aesop Fables: The Lion and the Mouse Guided Reading Script plus lesson plan including teaching input, synopsis, guided reading script, discussion points and suggestions for further work. Cast of 6, around 10 minutes reading time Lesson: 20 30 minutes, depending on how much of the lesson ...
Doctor, Doctor - A short play / short script
FifthFloorDrama

Doctor, Doctor - A short play / short script

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The play is set in a doctor s waiting room, with the characters trying to remember something important. The play is original and fun for students to either perform in front of an audience, or to read as part of guided reading / literacy circles. Each character s part is highlighted throughout t...

Writing plays

Plans, templates and inspirational ideas to help young learners to create plays and practise writing in the correct format for play script.

Play script Writing Planning Sheet - UKS2 (Year 5 & 6)
Phiree245

Play script Writing Planning Sheet - UKS2 (Year 5 & 6)

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This handout will help children to structure their playscript writing. It contains skills for Upper Key Stage 2 (Year 5 and 6). The examples link with the story Wolves in the Walls but can be used with a variety of texts. It helps to identify the features of a playscript and structure the writing...
Writing Playscripts: Structure and Organisation!
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Writing Playscripts: Structure and Organisation!

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This stimulating and thought-provoking lesson enables students to create playscript texts containing appropriate and accurate structures, using rules and knowledge to accurately organise their ideas. In particular, students learn how key features such as character lists, stage directions, act/scene ...
LKS2 Playscripts - Romeo and Juliet
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LKS2 Playscripts - Romeo and Juliet

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Adapted version of Romeo and Juliet appropriate for LKS2. Comes with writer's toolkit which reinforced the key features appropriate for writing a successful playscript. Good resource for use with Talk 4 Writing and appropriate to innovate upon.
Writing Playscripts - Upper KS2 Knowledge Organiser!
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Writing Playscripts - Upper KS2 Knowledge Organiser!

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This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for year 5/6 children when writing playscripts. The organiser is also perfect for teachers, parents and English subject leaders - aiding their planning and supporting of children s knowledge development for this...

Performing plays

Explore this collection of scripts for whole-class productions or classroom-based practice, to get your pupils performing and showcasing their skills.

3 little pigs play script
samdaunt77

3 little pigs play script

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Used as part of a unit on 'Light and Shadows', where chn made their own shadow puppet theatres. This was the play they were to perform, and so had to theme their theatre to match the story, and create the puppets necessary. (Good because there aren't too many puppets! Chn enjoyed creating silhouette...
Cinderella in 5 minutes (humorous play script)
DJGunn

Cinderella in 5 minutes (humorous play script)

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A humorous re-write of the story / pantomime of Cinderella, designed to be performed in under 5 minutes. Adaptable / editable Word document, so you can make your own changes & add your own children to the attached cast list. Ideal for class assembly, this has gone down well at year 6 leavers' as...
Ancient Egyptian Assembly Script
Shaun McMahon

Ancient Egyptian Assembly Script

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A script for an Assembly about the ancient Egyptians. The script covers the topics hieroglyphs, pyramids, the making of mummies and the River Nile amongst others. The scrip is aimed at a class of 25 or more students with a number of named characters. Very few props are required and there is the ab...
Playscript for years 2/3/4: Blackbeard's Bad Day
MrCare

Playscript for years 2/3/4: Blackbeard's Bad Day

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This is a playscript I wrote for my year 3/4 class while we were studying pirates. We used it to put on a class assembly for the parents. I split the class into 4 groups and had a different group perform each scene, but you could give it to one group to perform for fun, or as a nice extension task....
Macbeth | A Play Script for Young Performers
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Macbeth | A Play Script for Young Performers

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This is a play script for William Shakespeare's Macbeth, which has been written to be suitable for ages 9 to 14. The script now also comes with a PDF teacher presentation to help you introduce the play and the characters to your students. Macbeth tells the story of a fierce warrior who meets three ...