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Teacher Resource Book - Write plays in your classroom.

Inspire reluctant writers in your elementary and middle school classrooms by assigning fun playwriting exercises.   Each chapter in my book, Literary Ideas and Scripts for Young Playwrights (Teacher Ideas Press, 2004), starts with a broad range of sources to adapt as plays, from poetry to historical events.  Plus, each chapter includes one or two original scripts for teachers and students to enjoy as examples of how the techniques work.

Drawing on poetry, folk tales, story jokes, popular nursery rhymes, and more, Literary Ideas helps you introduce students to plays as they create new stories and then scripts for choral readings, readers theatre, and classroom plays with the help of simple worksheets.  The process inspires creativity, problem solving, observation, and listening skills within a writing and theatrical framework.  For an excerpt from the books' introduction, click the Excerpt link.   You can go to the National Writing Project website and read their review by clicking this Review link. 

The book is available through the publisher, Teacher Ideas Press, at your local bookstore, at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.  Click on Favorite sites for other sites helpful to writers.

School Visits

Want a school visit to get your playwriting off the ground?  Drop me a note by email and let's see what we can design to fit your needs.  Check out my classroom workshop page by clicking on the Workshops link.  You can click on Author bio below for more information about me.

Students, earn your school a discounted workshop by winning a writing contest.  Click on the Contest link for details. 

Your comments and questions are welcome.  Just send me an email at contact@lisakcobb.com. 

This page was last updated on 04/17/06.

Happy trails...happy writing.