try using easy classic stories that they may already be familiar with, i suggest something like little red riding hood or the three little pigs or if it �s a christmas thing maybe the shoemaker and the elves or something, choose a book you have that they enjoy and go.�
1st step: read them the story, go all out and change your voice have fun with it, go over vocabulary etc
2nd step: read it again and invite them to speak out important character parts with you (ex: or ill huff and ill puff and ill blow your house down)�
3rd step: narrate the story and invite students to act it out
4th step: invite other students to narrate
suddenly you have a little production�
important: i never put on a play in any of my classes unless everyone has some kind of speaking task: narrators, presenters, characters, director etc if it �s a large class adding a song at the beginning and end of the play usually does the trick
ps i have done this with all age groups and it �s always worked really well
