Use these Elements of Drama Worksheets with Figurative Language Activities inside each play. This resource is ideal for your 4th, 5th, & 6th-grade students. This set includes 4 figurative language plays worksheets and 5 readers’ theatre scripts for students to read and learn about plays. Kids will have a blast reading these 9 dramatic play printables while learning about drama and the various types of figurative language. There are several reading comprehension passages, vocabulary terms, and activities inside.

1. DRAMA VOCABULARY TERMS FOLDABLE

Inside the foldable are essential terms for understanding the drama/readers’ theater genre, such as stage directions, stage, curtain call, italicized words, bolded words, act, playwright, play, stage left and right, scene, and more!

Step-by-step instructions to put together the folding activity. The student will only need scissors and glue or a glue stick to assemble. Students can then find the definitions for the vocabulary words using a highlighter or a pencil, and glue them into their composition notebook.

2. DRAMA READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES WITH QUESTIONS

(ONE OF MY BEST-SELLING PRODUCTS!)

Upper elementary and middle school students will practice common reading skills. Students can read and act out the play.

•  5 plays are included in this packet
• 5 comprehension questions with each passage
• The answer key is included at the end of the presentation.

The following reading skills are covered in the passages:

Inference, Vocabulary, Text evidence, Theme, Character Analysis, Turning point, and Idioms.

Each play has a theme for the reader to identify through its problem and major events.

The themes in this play are:

• Persistence pays off
• Stand up for yourself
• Being the Bigger Person is Important
• Be Kind to Others
• Cooperation

3. DRAMA SCRIPTS USING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

These readers’ theater scripts are great for third-, fourth-, or fifth-grade students to practice acting out a drama while learning to recognize different styles of figurative language in written text. Once the reader’s theater plays are read and completed, each play includes comprehension questions for grading. The figurative language styles added to the plays are: Simile, Metaphor, Idioms, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Personification, Alliteration & Hyperbole