Introduce or revise the features of a play script in Year 5 and Year 6 with this short, print-and-go worksheet.

Pupils read an original one-scene script set in a dusty attic, answer comprehension questions, find the stage directions in brackets, and explain what they are for. They then complete drama definitions using a word bank (cast, dialogue, scene, script, setting) and write the next three lines of the script, including a stage direction.

It supports the English national curriculum reading aims for Years 5 and 6 of reading a range of texts, including plays, and identifying how structure and presentation contribute to meaning, and offers a short script-writing task. It does not include a performance activity.

What’s included (4 pages):

• 1 colour cover page
• Pupil page 1: Scene 1: The Missing Map – the script, 4 multiple-choice questions and 2 short written answers
• Pupil page 2: Drama Words – 5 word-bank definitions, 2 multiple-choice questions and a numbered writing task (question 14)
• Answer key with all 14 answers and marking notes

Great for: starters before a play-script unit, guided reading, homework, early finishers or cover lessons. Print the black-and-white pupil pages and go.

Format: PDF, US Letter page size (prints on A4 with “fit to page”).

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