Musical Play: “Grammarosaurus”

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What is this? An easy, flexible, 25-minute musical play for grades 1-4. Comes with the script, audio recording (with both a vocal and instrumental version of each song), and a teacher's guide. No music or drama experience needed!
Story & Content Funny script ✓ Catchy tunes ✓ Flexible casting ✓ Dumb jokes
It turns out there's more than one Loch Ness Monster, and they're all masters of grammar and punctuation. Learn more!
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Synopsis

The Loch Ness monster has surfaced, and it turns out she's a Grammarosaurus! Nessie and her friends, all experts on grammar, have come out of the lake to save the world from grammatical crisis. As reporters, tourists, professors and grammar-lovers converge on Loch Ness, the Grammarosauri are only too happy to explain all about capital letters, plurals, contractions, subject-verb agreement, complete sentences, and punctuation.

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Key Concepts

Designed for students beginning their study of grammar, Grammarosaurus is a great introduction to and review of English language concepts. And, like all of our plays, this show can be used to improve reading, vocabulary, reading comprehension, performance and music skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and numerous social skills (read about it!) -- all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!

  • Simple contractions
  • Uses of periods, exclamation points, and question marks
  • Use of quotation marks
  • Parts of speech
  • Basic capitalization: proper names, words at the beginning of sentences, months, and days of the week
  • Complete and incomplete sentences
  • Commas with dates and items in a series, and in the greeting and closure of a letter
  • Word order

For a more advanced show about grammar, see Pirates from Grammar Island.

Aligned with national standards! View the standards and vocabulary. 

Publication Info

Author: Ron Fink (Composer) and John Heath (Book and Lyrics)

ISBN:
978-1-886588-45-5

© 2008
Bad Wolf Press, LLC

1 review for Musical Play: “Grammarosaurus”

  1. Marie Hinton (verified owner)

    Our students, and parents loved this play. We are never disappointed in Bad Wolf products. They are perfect for all ages and fun. Costumes and music are easy for teachers and parents.

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The Show

We want you to know what you're getting, so the cast list and first third of the script are available here! Bad Wolf shows are written for flexibility and can be edited however you like to meet the needs of your actors, school, curriculum, parents, astrological chart, latest whim, etc. If you have questions about the portions of the script not shown, please contact us.

Casting

Flexible casting from 11-40 students. Use as many Grammarosauri as desired. There are a lot of characters in the show, but many of them have just a few spoken lines. Actors can easily play several roles, or a single role can be divided between multiple actors. All parts can be played by any gender.

CHARACTERS:

Jessica (reporter)
Roberto (reporter)
Capital Grammarosauri
Sally (roving reporter)
Plural Grammarosauri
Contraction Grammarosauri
Tourist
Cameraman
Subject/Verb Grammarosauri
Noun Grammarosaurus
Verb Grammarosaurus
Professor Participle
Professor Semicolon
Comma Grammarosauri
Dr. Pickwick
Quotation Marks (2)
Nessie

and a CHORUS composed of all students who are not playing roles on stage at the time.

Script

This is the first one-third of the script.

There is a big sign on the wall that reads:

Breaking News from Scotland:
Grammarosaurus Discovered!

Song 1

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CLASS:

Extra! Extra! Stop that press!
Guess what they found in Loch Ness!
Greeting tourists on the beach
Teaching folks 'bout parts of speech
Grammar
Grammarosaurus
Grammarosaurus.

Extra! Extra! I'm not done
Nessie's not the only one
They think commas are a treat
Their sentences are complete.
Grammar
Grammarosaurus
Grammarosaurus.

Read the interview
They even know what colons do.

(spoken): Do you?

Extra! Extra! Stop that press!
Guess what they found in Loch Ness!
Greeting tourists on the beach
Teaching folks 'bout parts of speech.
Grammar
Grammarosaurus
Grammarosaurus
Grammarosaurus.

(ROBERTO and JESSICA enter. They each carry a microphone. THEY address audience.)

JESSICA: Good evening. I'm Jessica, and this is Roberto.

ROBERTO: Welcome to our special report. We have breaking news from Scotland.

JESSICA: People from all over the world are flocking here to talk to the Loch Ness Monster.

CAPITAL GRAMMAROSAURUS #1: Hey, I heard that!

CAPITAL G. #2: I'm NOT a monster!

CAPITAL G. #3: I'm a Grammarosaurus.

ROBERTO: How many of you are there?

CAPITAL G. #1: Lots.

JESSICA: How come you¹ve never come out in the open before?

CAPITAL G. #2: The world is in crisis.

ROBERTO: Economic crisis?

JESSICA: Environmental?

CAPITAL G. #3: Grammatical.

CAPITAL G: #1: The world needs us now.

CAPITAL G. #2: We Grammarosauri love different kinds of grammar.

CAPITAL G. #3: The three of us, for example, love capital letters.

ROBERTO: Capitals?

CAPITAL G. #1: Of course.

CAPITAL G. #2: But there's one capital letter we REALLY like.

CAPITAL G. #3: Because it's an entire word!

Song 2

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CAPITAL GRAMMAROSAURI:

The first word in a sentence gets a capital
The other words don't usually even try
But there's one word that always gets a capital
My very fav'rite capital is I!

No matter where you put it it's a capital
Beginning middle end it stands up high
The subject I like best, well, it's a capital
My very fav'rite capital is I!

I, I, I, I

CHORUS: It's just one little letter

CAPITAL GRAMMAROSAURI:

I, I, I, I

CHORUS: It can't get better than I!

CAPITAL GRAMMAROSAURI:

Oh sure a person's name will get a capital
And certain words like Monday or July
But if I have to pick out just one capital
My very fav'rite capital is I!

CAPITAL GRAMMAROSAURI and
CHORUS:

I, I, I, I
It's just one little letter
I, I, I, I
It can't get better than I!
It can't get better than I!
(THEY exit. SALLY SWAMPWATER enters with three GRAMMAROSAURI. )

SALLY (to audience): Hi there. I'm Sally Swampwater, your roving reporter. I¹ve just come across three more Grammarosauri. Or is it Grammarosauruses?

PLURAL GRAMMAROSAURUS #1: I prefer Grammarosauri.

PLURAL G. #2: It's the Latin form.

SALLY: You guys know Latin?

PLURAL G. #3: Doesn't everybody?

SALLY: You must have been in that lake a very long time.

PLURAL G. #1: Yes---it's taking us a while to adjust to modern times.

PLURAL G. #2: But we do love the tea.

PLURAL G. #3: And it's just a few minutes before tea time!

SALLY: What do you find so confusing about life these days?

PLURAL G. #1: Lots of things. Forks, for example.

PLURAL G. #2: And the tax code.

PLURAL G. #3: And Harry Potter---is Dumbledore dead or not?

PLURAL G. #1: And especially plurals.

PLURAL G. #2: It used to be so easy to make a plural. You just added an "s"

PLURAL G. #3: But modern life is complicated!

Song 3

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PLURAL GRAMMAROSAURI:
When I was young life was simple
Plurals just added an "s"
"Voice" became "voices"
"Choice" became"choices"
Plurals were easy to guess.

When I was young life was simple
Plurals just added and "s"
Then I got older
The world grew colder
Now ev'rything is a mess!

"House" becomes "houses"
"Mouse" becomes "mice"
"Moose" isn't "mooses"
And "die" becomes "dice."
It's so random it's causing me stress
I miss the "s."

GRAMMAROSAURI and CHORUS:
When I was young life was simple
Plurals just added an "s"
"Voice" became "voices"
"Choice" became "choices"
Plurals were easy to guess.

When I was young life was simple
Plurals just added and "s"
Then I got older
The world grew colder
Now ev¹rything is a mess!

"Child" becomes "children"
"Sheep" just stays "sheep"
"Goose" isn't "gooses"
A "foot" becomes "feet"
It's so random it's causing me stress
I miss the "s"
It's so random it's causing me stress
I miss the "s"

(THEY exit. THREE Grammarosauri enter. They're wearing long coats. They whisper to each other. Then a TOURIST carrying binoculars walks by.)

CONTRACTION GRAMMAROSAURUS #1 (to other GRAMMAROSAURI): Hey look, it's a tourist.
(TO TOURIST, secretively):
Pssst. Hey, buddy.

TOURIST: Wow, a Grammarosaurus! I've come all the way from _______ (fill in name of your city) to see one of you up close.

CONTRACTION G. #2 (reaching into coat and pulling at a large letter "O"): You wanna buy an "O"?

TOURIST: You mean the letter O?

CONTRACTION G. #3: Ssssshh! Yeah. The letter O.

TOURIST: What is this, Wheel of Fortune?

CONTRACTION G. #1: A nice fresh O. Took it right out of the phrase, "Should not."

TOURIST: You stole an O?

CONTRACTION G. #2: Ssshh. We didn't really STEAL it. We BORROWED it.

CONTRACTION G. #3: We do it all the time...we take the O out of phrases like "should not" and put an apostrophe in its place.

TOURIST: You shouldn't!

CONTRACTION G. #1: Exactly. We end up with shouldn't!

CONTRACTION G. #2: It's a contraction.

CONTRACTION G. #3: And we LOVE contractions!

(This concludes the first one-third of the script.)

The Songs

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Standards

Common Core and Other National Standards

Language Arts

  • Grammarosaurus was written specifically to teach the Common Core Language Standards: Conventions of Standard English - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
  • Common Core Reading Standards for Literature: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
  • Common Core Reading Standards: Foundational Skills:
    • K and 1st: Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Word Recognition
    • 2nd: Phonics and Word Recognition
    • 3rd, 4th, 5th: Phonics and Word Recognition, Fluency
  • Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards: Comprehension and Collaboration - K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
  • Common Core Language Standards: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use - K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
  • Common Core Standard 10: Range, Quality & Complexity: Range of Text Types for K-5th

National Core Arts Standards

Vocabulary

Grammatical terms (including "grammatical" and "grammarian") found in Grammarosaurus:

colons
semicolon
clause
punctuation marks
apostrophes
participle
direct quote
conjugating
hyphen
object
parts of speech
subjunctive
reported speech

General Vocabulary Building:
economic
adjust
satisfaction
scoop
sunflowers
psychologist
transference
environmental
die (dice)
footage
peek
bouquets
astonishing
inflammation
roving
random
lure
leak
groundhog
expert
buddies
Latin
tourist
whiz
absurd
date
nervous
Bigfoot

Phrases & Slang
"stop the press!"
"feeling negative"
"once and for all"
"tax code"
"cramp your style"
"be that as it may"
"biz"
"Loch Ness (monster)"
"breaking news"
"buzz off!"
"tea time"
"smiley face"
"beyond reach"
"so be it"
"Nessie"

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