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Being a Good Audience

Kindergartners learn how to be a good audience — sitting quietly, watching, and clapping at the end — so everyone can enjoy a show together.

KindergartenAudience25 minutes1 class periodArtistic ProcessExplicit teaching4 StandardsNCAS
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Be a good audience.
  • ✓Tell good watching from not.
  • ✓Clap to say thanks.
  • ✓Enjoy a show.
Essential Question

When you watch a show, you are the audience! A good audience helps everyone enjoy it. What does a good audience do?

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Standards Aligned
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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Good Audience or Not?

Project this and sort each thing into good audience or not.

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👏 Good Audience
🙅 Not
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The Lesson · Artistic Process (Warm-Up · Explore · Rehearse · Perform · Reflect)

25 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Warm-Up — You’re the Audience

3 min

When you watch a show you’re the audience — what makes a good one?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Pretend to watch a show.
  • Ask how to be good.
  • Warm up.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Watch.
  • Think.
  • Warm up.
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Explore — Good Audience

7 min

Children explore.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send children to Good Audience or Not?
  • Sort each one.
  • Talk about them.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort them.
  • Talk.
  • Name.
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Rehearse — Rehearse

7 min

Children rehearse.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Practice sitting quietly.
  • Practice watching.
  • Practice clapping.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sit.
  • Watch.
  • Clap!
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Perform — Perform

5 min

Children perform.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Watch a friend’s show.
  • Be a good audience.
  • Clap at the end.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Watch.
  • Be good.
  • Clap!
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Reflect — Reflect

3 min

Children respond.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say what a good audience does.
  • Show it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Show it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the National Core Arts Standards (Theatre).

NCAS
TH:Re7.1.K

Watch a performance as audience.

NCAS
TH:Pr6.1.K

Take part as audience.

NCAS
TH:Re8.1.K

Respond to a show.

NCAS
TH:Cn11.2.K

Connect to being an audience.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Audience picture cards.
  • Sentence frame: “A good audience ___.”
  • Role-play watching.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with quiet vs. loud.
  • Sort one at a time.
  • Practice clapping.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Make an audience rule.
  • Explain why we’re quiet.
  • Cheer nicely.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🎭A pretend stage
  • 💻Good Audience or Not?
  • 👏Hands to clap
  • 🖍️Crayons
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

audiencethe people watchingwatchto look at the showquietnot talkingclapto show you liked itshowa performanceperformto do a showenjoyto have funrespectbeing kind to others
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
Name something a good audience does.
Sit quietly, watch the show, or clap at the end.
QUESTION 2
When do you clap?
At the end of the show.
QUESTION 3
Should you talk loudly during a show?
No — sit quietly and watch.

Reflect: good watching.

Have children practice being a good audience — sitting quietly and clapping — during a show at home. A printable audience sheet is in the Arts library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

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Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: audience, clap, enjoy, perform, quiet, respect, show, watch
  1. not talking
  2. being kind to others
  3. to look at the show
  4. to show you liked it
  5. a performance
  6. to do a show
  7. the people watching
  8. to have fun

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. Name something a good audience does.
  2. When do you clap?
  3. Should you talk loudly during a show?
Answer key — Part A: 1) quiet · 2) respect · 3) watch · 4) clap · 5) show · 6) perform · 7) audience · 8) enjoy
Part B: 1) Sit quietly, watch the show, or clap at the end. 2) At the end of the show. 3) No — sit quietly and watch.