The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Play Script
- Grades
- Grades 1–5, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Reading, Drama
- Topic
- Wizard of Oz, Play script
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- CCSS.RL.2.6
About this resource
What's inside this resource
A short play script for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, based on the original book by L. Frank Baum, for you to adapt for your class or school performance.
School plays are an incredible platform to introduce children to drama, to music, to theatre skills.
The school play enables a group, or class of children, to interact together and to work in a team. There is a role for everyone, whether the child:
is an actor, who is comfortable learning lines and being on the stage
loves singing and dancing
enjoys making props, costumes, or helping with technical skills backstage, in sound or lighting
A positive experience in a school play boosts confidence and helps a child to feel valued. They can be performed at any time of the year and not just at Christmas. It is a good way to end a term and get parents more actively involved. They can be elaborately staged events, or just a simple assembly.
If you have read our book Park Lane School Presents... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, why not put on your very own school production, using our play script as a starting point.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Student can perform an assigned character role using scripted dialogue and stage directions.
Student can follow the plot structure of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz through a scripted performance.
Teaching tips
Assign non-performing roles (props, costumes, sound, lighting) to students who prefer working backstage, since the introduction explicitly frames this as part of the play's value.
Use the printed stage directions as a rehearsal checklist for lighting and sound cues rather than leaving them to be improvised.
Note that the script is offered 'as a starting point' for adaptation, so trim scenes or combine minor roles as needed for a shorter class performance.
Skills covered
Script reading and performance — students memorize and deliver character dialogue with stage directions for lighting, sound, and movement cues.
Character role interpretation — students embody a specific character (e.g., Dorothy, Scarecrow, Wicked Witch) across a multi-scene narrative arc.
Collaborative production roles — students not cast as performers can take on props, costumes, sound, or lighting responsibilities within the same production.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
How closely does this script follow the plot of the original Wizard of Oz story?
It is described as adapted from Baum's original book by Sally Anne Jones and is explicitly offered 'for you to adapt for your class or school performance,' so it follows the familiar plot beats (the cyclone, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion, the Wicked Witch, the silver shoes) but is intended as a flexible starting point a teacher can further trim or adjust rather than a fixed, unabridged transcript.
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Curriculum
Standards, concepts & topics
Standards
Standards
- CCSS.RL.2.6 — Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
Core concepts
Core concepts
drama
play script structure
story adaptation
Topics
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