Drama and Theater Terms word search, scramble and crossword puzzle

Introduce drama and theater vocabulary through a crossword, word scramble, and word search. Students practice stage terms including script, props, monologue, and soliloquy.
Grades
Grades 5–8
Pages
6
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Jun 05, 2026

Subject
ELA, Drama, Vocabulary
Topic
Drama terms, Theater vocabulary
Resource types
Crosswords Puzzles, Word Searches
Answer key
Included
Standards
L.6.6

Product description

From the author

Review fifteen drama and theater terms with a word search, word scramble and crossword. Vocabulary includes script, act, scene, stage, actor, actress, director, audience, props, costume, set, curtain, dialogue, monologue and soliloquy.

Each puzzle comes in its own two-page PDF with a completed key, for six pages total. Short clues support the crossword and scramble. Use a puzzle for individual review, partner work or an early-finisher activity.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Attach a stage term to a short functional definition, from "handheld objects" for props to "background scenery" for set

  • Tell apart the three kinds of stage speech the list carries — dialogue as conversation, monologue as a long solo speech, soliloquy as thinking aloud alone

  • Spell each term correctly from scrambled letters using the supplied letters and clue

Teaching tips

  • Use the same fifteen terms across separate lessons, with the crossword and scramble for meaning work and the word search for recognition.

  • Compare actor and actress using their adjacent scramble clues, and discuss how those terms are used.

  • Keep the three completed keys for checking; the scramble’s blank lines do not indicate letter counts.

Skills covered

  • Stage vocabulary recall — students link fifteen theatre terms to compressed definitions such as "written play", "acting area" and "in charge", used in the crossword and scramble.

  • Distinguishing related terms — dialogue, monologue and soliloquy are separated only by their clues, as are act and scene, and actor and actress.

  • Locating words in a letter grid — the word search sets all fifteen terms into a twenty-by-twenty grid, using the printed word bank.

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Which vocabulary is practiced?

The fifteen terms include script, act, scene, stage, actor, actress, director, audience, props, costume, set, curtain, dialogue, monologue, and soliloquy.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • L.6.6

Core concepts

  • Drama vocabulary

  • Theatre terms

  • Word puzzles

  • Spelling

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