Parts of a Drama

Reader's theater texts are broken down into...

• Chapters

• Scenes

• Stanzas

How do stage directions help the reader better understand the drama?

• They describe what the characters look like.

• They tell the words the reader is supposed to say.

• They describe the actions and feelings of the characters.

Which contains stage direction?

• Narrator 3: He runs away in fear.

• Beaver: (smiling) You are so clever!

• Leopard: I am the king of the jungle!

Which one shows stage direction?

• Anansi: (laughs with Aso) look at those fools.

• Anansi: I will spin my web.

• Narrator 1: They both look down and smile.

What is a small portion or section of a play

• act

• props

• scene

• playwright

Every time you change the scene in a Drama you change the

• climax

• plot

• Scene

• Setting

Label the parts of the stage.

a

b

c

d

e

Upstage

Down Stage

Stage Right

Audience

Stage Left

A person who fills in the details to the audience throughout the play is called the _ .

What is a story that is meant to be performed for an audience?

• a drama or play

• a poem

• a story

Match the following

• the units of the action

• playwright

• the author of the play

• actors

• the people who perform

• acts

• parts of the acts

• scenes