🎭 Explorers: Script & Scenes

A fully interactive A2.1 Kids writing lesson that moves the Explorer Club's Adventure Showcase from plan to script. Students begin with four warm-up questions about their story plan, then work through a three-block Script Frame project toolkit: How a Script Works (a narrator/character/sequencer/spark table plus the narrator-lines + character-lines + one-dialogue-spark formula), Feelings & the Dialogue Spark (was/were feelings, the loud spark, and say verbs said/shouted/whispered), and Split Into Scenes (a four-scene table matching setup, problem, climax and resolution). Ten script and stagecraft words (script, scene, narrator, line, dialogue, character, shout, whisper, feeling, perform) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get detailed review flashcards. The reading is a magazine-style model script, 'The Lost Map — The Script', in which Team Compass turn their island adventure into four scenes with narrator lines, character lines, sequencers, feelings and a dialogue spark, with key words highlighted on hover. Practice includes 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blank questions (narrator, scene, first, took, shouted, were, finally, dialogue) with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking read-through section with five prompts and a model team read-through dialogue; a guided 25-45 word writing task with a four-point checklist (sequencer + setting, problem, one dialogue spark, feeling + Finally) and a live word counter with auto-save; and a full 8-question multiple-choice quiz mixing script parts, past tense and two reading-comprehension questions, with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle and localStorage persistence.