Planning a Play Script – Writing Practice Worksheet
- Grades
- Grades 3–5, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Creative Arts, Art, ELA, Drama, Writing
- Topic
- Playwriting, Narrative Planning
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- W.3.3
Product description
From the author
If you want to give students extra practice with writing plays, I have just the resource for you.
What You Get:
This is a Planning a Play Script Worksheet that was designed for elementary students who are working on or have mastered this skill. It also works well as a review for students. This is a 1-page printable.
How To Implement This Resource:
You can print off enough copies of the worksheets for each student to have. You may also choose to print only a few copies and laminate those. If you choose to laminate them, students can use dry erase markers to complete the worksheet. This makes a great small group or reading center activity.
The Planning a Play Script Worksheet is a blank template that features 5 sections:
Which characters will be in your play?
What entertaining events will happen?
Where will each scene take place?
Describe the opening stage directions.
How will the play end?
I hope you enjoy!
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Plan the core narrative elements of an original play script, including characters, events, and setting.
Sequence a play into distinct scenes by identifying the setting for each of up to six scenes.
Draft opening stage directions and a closing outcome before writing a full script.
Teaching tips
Use this planning sheet before students draft their play script, since every section asks for planning decisions rather than finished dialogue or narration.
Have students complete the six scene-setting boxes in order, since the sheet numbers them Scene 1 through Scene 6 to mirror a sequential script.
Pair this sheet with a full script-writing template or notebook for the drafting stage, since this sheet is scoped to planning decisions only.
Skills covered
Narrative planning — students decide on characters, events, and settings before drafting a script.
Scene sequencing — up to six numbered scene-setting boxes require students to plan a play's structure in order.
Playwriting fundamentals — dedicated prompts for opening stage directions and an ending introduce core script-planning vocabulary.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
Is this a finished-script writing template?
It is a planning sheet for characters, events, scene settings, opening stage directions and an ending. Students draft the full script separately.
How many scenes can students plan?
The setting section provides numbered spaces for up to six scenes.
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Standards
Standards
- W.3.3
Core concepts
Core concepts
Play script planning
Scene structure
Stage directions
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