Stageworthy by Widy creates performing arts lesson materials that help you teach the arts like a rockstar – even if you’re not a specialist.
Download these free resources to help you get started teaching music, drama, and dance.
Free Music Lesson Plans
Grade 1 Music Lessons Download
Teach your Grade 1 Music class all about the difference between beat and rhythm with this easy-to-use and low prep set of lesson plans. Perfect for back to school, flexible enough to use anytime.
Grade 4 Music Lessons Download
Review rhythm concepts with your Grade 4 Music class using this easy to use and low prep set of lesson plans. Perfect for back to school and the first day of music class, flexible enough to use anytime.
Rhythm Worksheets with Sound Clips
These music worksheets come with all the music clips you need so that you (or your supply teacher) doesn’t have to worry about playing the samples correctly. With a fun back-to-school theme, these rhythm worksheets are a great way to engage your music students.
The included Powerpoint has embedded sound clips, making it a fool-proof activity for non-specialist teachers.
Free Dance Lesson Plans
Rhythm Worksheets with Sound Clips
Elements of Dance Lesson Download
Not sure where to start teaching dance? You can do this! Try out this sample lesson to teach the element of time – most appropriate for grades 4-6.
Christmas Roll A Dance Printable
This is a packet of two roll-a-dance activities – one for grades 1 & 2 and one for grades 3 & 4. Students roll a dice to choose one or more prompts and then create a short dance phrases using the planning page. Due to the element of choice using the dice, you can use them more than once and still have a valuable experience through additional practice.
Free Drama Lesson Plans
Guided Role Play Download – Farm Theme
Guided role play allows your students to explore characters and dramatic movement by improvising responses based on prompts within a story. Read the story out loud and pause after each prompt to allow students to interpret the story, adding their own dialogue, movements, and details.
By using a variety of activities all based around the same theme, students have the opportunity to build a vocabulary of characters, movements, and words.
Free Virtual Field Trip – Intro To Theatre
This adorable little virtual field trip for drama introduces your class to the basics of theatre: what it is, who are some of the most important people, drama vocabulary, and how to behave as an audience member. It works well as an sub plan drama lesson, but could also be used as a prep lesson in-class before attending a live performance.