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Drama worksheet · Putting on a show
Good Audience Manners
Sort what a good audience member does and does not do during a show.
- Grade level
- Grades 1–3
- Time
- About 15 minutes
- Topic
- Putting on a show
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Being a good audience, Planning a set and a poster, Reflecting on a performance, Celebrating effort
What kids do
Printed on the sheet:
- Actors work hard to put on a show. A good audience helps them do their best!
- Things people do at a show clap at the end talk to a friend laugh at funny parts sit and watch kick the seat in front play on a phone stay quiet when the lights go down walk around during a scene
- Write each one under Good audience or Not good audience.
- Not good audience
Teacher tip
Before a class show, read the sheet together and act out a “not good audience” moment, like talking to a friend. Then practice the good version.
How to use it
- Use these sheets around a class performance: plan before, reflect after.
- Talk about audience manners before kids watch any show.
- Read the box at the top of the sheet together, then try the first item out loud as a class.
Watch for
Sets with too much to build. Simple is easier to make and to see.
Talk about it
- What makes a good audience?
- What did you change in your voice or body to show that?
Take it further
Invite families or another class to be the audience.
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