1. Unit Planning Organizer
Tanya Stahl
Subject: Drama
Grade: 3 & 4
Unit/Topic: Reader’s Theatre
Duration: 2 lesson per week for 4 weeks (March)
1. General Learning Outcome(s) for the Unit
READERS’ THEATRE General Speaking Skills
2. Specific Learning Outcomes for Unit
• develop the following vocal skills:
− recognize and reproduce the articulated sounds of standard speech
− speak clearly
− speak with ease
− speak expressively
− speak with energy Drama (Elementary)
− speak with an appreciation of the flexibility of the voice as an instrument
− learn concepts of pitch, pace, pause, rate, intensity, volume
3. Lesson Topics
 Lesson Concepts: Developing the following vocal skills
4. Assessment:
Students will be formatively assessed on the quality of their vocal skills
Clarity
Expressiveness
Energy
Volume
5. Essential Resources:
Reader’s Theater Scripts: Aesop’s Fables, A Bike Ride to Remember by Deb Hanson
6. Possible Learning Activities:
Drama games that focus on development of vocal skills
Reading from readers theatre scripts in pairs.  
7. Learning Strategies:
Direct Instruction- with student participation
Small group practice
8. Addressing Learner Diversity:
I will be wearing a mic so our student who is hard of hearing can hear me. There will be written instructions on the board.