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Theatre

I love taking a few minutes every week or so to do a little acting in the classroom.  Whether it's reader's theatre, skits, monologues, speeches or impromptu debate, it's good for students to find their inner thespian.  Use these resources to help your students improvise!

Audience Critique Sheet- Ask your students to be the judges with this simple form

Voice Inflection- Great ideas for helping students to reduce their similarity to robots while reading from a script

Reader's Theatre Tips- From the NEA

Theatre Games- Great list of games from We the Teachers

Charades

Speeches
Oral Lanaguage Program- Use these quick speech starters to get students talking in front of the class
Oral Language Topics- More ideas for quick speeches