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Drama Common Core RL.4.1 resources
St. Patrick's Day Readers' Theater Script & Reading Activities: Grade 3, 4, 5, 6
St. Patrick's Day Readers' Theater Script: "How to ALMOST Catch a Leprechaun": This humorous readers' theater St. Patrick's Day literacy toolkit includes the following:>"How to ALMOST Catch a Leprechaun": 7-page script for 4-6 readers>Sound Effects: Cue Cards>Vocabulary: Word Work activity>Comprehension Check: Inference graphic organizer activity>The Legend of Leprechauns: Fun Facts page>An overview of readers' theater & the four elements of fluent readingThe script include
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3rd - 6th
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Cyclops: The Monster in the Cave--Readers Theater from The Odyssey
Includes comprehension activity, key, and teacher notes! Liven up your reading curriculum and satisfy the Common Core with this kid-friendly classroom play based on the 9th book of Homer's The Odyssey. Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, "Cyclops" is suitable for reader's theater or stage performance. Use it to introduce the original text, build fluency, and improve comprehension. Pair it with a Percy Jackson novel as part of a literature circle! Or j
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5th - 9th
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Aesop’s Fables Unit & Lesson Plans – Genre Study for 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
This fables unit offers a complete reading, writing, speaking, and listening experience! It includes lesson plans, 10 stories with comprehension questions, 7 plays, writing, and compare-contrast activities. You’ll have everything you need to teach your third, fourth, or fifth grade students. Open the preview to take a closer look at the components. Lesson PlansThree weeks of ELA lesson plans are ready to go! You may use them to guide your study of fables. (Open the bonus preview to see the plans
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3rd - 5th
Christmas Carol Reader's Theater Script & Activities RL3.1, RL3.2, RL4.1, RL5.1
~ Literature ~ Fluency ~ Common Core Aligned~~~ A Christmas Carol - Scrooge - Charles Dickens~~~This is a CCSS aligned readers’ theater or play for grades 3-5. This resource will assist your students with fluency/expression reading practice, comparing & contrasting characters, and sequencing story events.Included in this set is the following items:✔ age appropriate readers’ theater script/ can also be used for a play✔ character cards that can be made into puppets✔ a sequencing of events pri
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Christmas Carol Nutcracker Readers Theater Comprehension Bundle
Dragon Readers' Theater Script - Fluency, Word Work & Inference - Grades 3/4/5/6
Dragons - Readers' Theater Script Literacy Toolkit: "How to Teach an Old Dragon New Tricks": The day an old dragon followed Jonas J. Jeffries home from school, Jonas's life changed completely.* * * * * * * * * *This readers' theater literacy toolkit is also available in two different discounted bundles of scripts, literacy toolkits, and readers' theater poetry collections:*READERS' THEATER MEGA BUNDLE OF SILLINESS*READERS' THEATER BUNDLE OF FUNNY FLUENCY SCRIPTS* * * * * * * * * *This readers' t
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3rd - 6th
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The Nutcracker Readers Theater with Text-Dependent Questions and Context Clues
This readers theater is a great addition to Christmas festivities for readers in the grades 3-6 levels. This is the classic legend of the Nutcracker. I have taken care to make the script engaging. My students really enjoyed becoming the characters of Fritz, Marie, and Nutcracker, but it was Godfather Drosselmeier that really stole the show in my room. This readers theater allows students to work on fluency and expression as they read it aloud. There are many speaking parts to make sure that
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Christmas Carol Nutcracker Readers Theater Comprehension Bundle
Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Bundle Point of View
If you're looking for an engaging way to work on FLUENCY with your upper elementary students, this Fractured Fairy Tale Readers' Theater bundle is PERFECT! Explore three well-known fairy tales from the perspective/Point of View of different characters. These scripts and reading comprehension activities are perfect for small groups and can be used throughout the year with no prep for you. These also make great SUB PLANS! Scripts included in this Bundle:The True Story of the Three Little PigsHumpt
Read-Aloud Plays: Tale of Peter Rabbit Readers Theater
The last time my 5th graders performed this for our primary students, well, in 20 years of having kids produce plays, I've never seen a funnier play or a more engaged audience! This original read-aloud play uses Beatrix Potter's classic story to focus on peer pressure and character traits. It comes with the original text and three worksheets: vocabulary and grammar development, fact and opinion maze, and a compare and contrast exercise. The play is for from 7 to 11 students, depending on your ne
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3rd - 6th
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Christmas Carol Nutcracker Readers Theater Comprehension Bundle
This set of readers theater scripts and text-dependent printables will get the attention of your students they still are tuned in to an educational activity. Introducing these classic tales with a readers theater is a great way to expose elementary students to these long-loved stories at their reading level. My students work on their comprehension as well as their fluency as we read these in our classroom. I have also included context clues to help students practice the skill of figuring out
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3rd - 6th
Reader's Theater Script: Natural Resources, Conservation, Waste Management
Reading and Science Integration: USE AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES “TRASH ME NOT”Scripts with Content for Intermediate Readers. FULL PACKThis Readers’ Theater is a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small groups, centers, or teacher table.TRASH ME NOT will be divided into 5 scenes. Each scene will have a reading response activity!For example:Scene1:First: Read and Re Read (Fluency)Next: Making Predictions, Answering & Asking Questions (Comprehen
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3rd - 5th
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Wizard of Oz Script for Small Casts
This short script, which includes 8 speaking roles, is ideal for small casts such as those formed by drama club students or schools with low class sizes. Larger roles, such as Dorothy and the Scarecrow, can be divided in order to create more speaking roles for additional actors.
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1) Script
Based on the novel by Frank L. Baum, this abridged version of The Wizard of Oz uses simple vocabulary that is suitable for younger students as well as English language learners and actor’
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4th - 7th
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Charles Dickens' Gabriel Grub--Christmas Readers Theater
Long before Scrooge there was Gabriel Grub, the gravedigger. From Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, this eerie tale is a perfect compliment to the Christmas Carol story or a wonderful stand-alone Gothic holiday play. Enough parts for an entire class, or double up roles and stage it with as few as twelve. Suitable for reader's theater or a full stage production. Use it with grades 5 and up. (Warning: it may be too scary for younger students). Fully reproducible: original purchaser is licensed to prin
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5th - 9th
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Also included in:Â A Dickens' Christmas -- Reader's Theater Pack
Readers Theater Brain Teaser Mystery Script GRADES 3-4
This grades 3-4 Readers' Theater fun AND funny mystery script will give your students high interest practice in reading aloud, inferencing, making predictions and drawing conclusions. The Mystery of the Stolen Laptop brain teaser script makes your students into detectives, performing inference tasks to solve clues. If you have a class that dislikes anything they perceive as "babyish", this amusing script, with its relevant modern characters, will get a thumbs-up! Drama and ELA fun! Question she
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3rd - 4th
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Reading & Writing Pirate Unit Activities "Talk Like a Pirate Day" Grades 3 4 5 6
Pirate-themed bundle of reading and writing activities for a pirate unit or to help celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day (every September 19th!).The bundle of pirate activities includes three products:>The Three Little Pigs becomes . . . THE THREE PIRATE PIGS (6-page fractured fairy tale readers' theater script for 5-8 readers plus extension activities)>PIRATES DON'T WEAR LIFE JACKETS (3 1/2-page readers' theater script for 6-9 readers plus extension activities) >THE TALK-LIKE
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3rd - 6th
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Four TALL Tales Reader's Theaters
Here are four often overlooked tall tales about the Old West! Included are tall tales about Hiawatha, Casey Jones, John Henry, and Mike Fink! Each tall tale is written in kid friendly language and is a great way to motivate your students to read while at the same time improving oral expression, fluency, and comprehension skills! Your students will love actively learning about how Hiawatha saved his people, Casey Jones drove his train over many perilous journeys, John Henry helped blast throug
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2nd - 4th
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Readers' Theater Brain Teaser Mystery Script GRADES 3 & 4 Bundle
3 readers' theater scripts for the price of 2! This fun 30% off grades 3-4 high-interest trio of brain teaser mystery scripts will delight both ELA and Drama students. They will practice reading and comprehension skills while testing their wits in deductive work. In one of the mysteries they will discover the thieves of a laptop at school. The main characters, Matt and Sophie, are upper elementary students who love riddles and are effective detectives. In another mystery, twins Sloane and Sport
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3rd - 4th
Readers Theater End of Year Mystery Scripts Grades 3-4 - Two Scripts + Questions
Both of these Readers’ Theater end of year fun mystery scripts for grades 3-4 provide high interest lessons in the last few days of the school year. Your students reading aloud, comprehension, critical thinking and writing skills will receive a B-I-G boost. Perfect for performances too! All of this, AND giggles guaranteed fun- phew! If you have a class that dislikes anything they perceive as "babyish", these amusing scripts, with their relevant modern characters, will get a thumbs-up. -- Questio
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in:Â End of Year Activities and Games Grades 3-4 - ELA Brain Teaser Fun!
Reader's Theater Script: A Winter Tale, Squirrels, Reading Strategies Activities
A Winter Squirrely Tale (Winter Theme, Reading and Writing Activities)READING STRATEGIESSquirrels in Winter?5 CHARACTERSReader's TheaterScripts With ContentFor Intermediate ReadersThis Reader’s Theater Script is a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small groups, centers, or teacher table.Where Are The Nutz? It is a fun story about a family of squirrels surviving a hard cold winter. Someone ate the last acorn, grandma has a hidden cache, and everyone is lo
Our Solar System, Science Script And Lots Of Activities, Planets One By One
Reading And Science Integration: Our Solar System
(The Sun, The Planets, Pluto, and The Big Bang Theory)
Reading/Science Integration: Activities To Be Used In Small Groups, Centers, Or Teacher Table.
10 Characters/ Intermediate To Advance Readers
This script will talk about:
The Big Bang Theory (The universe origin)
The Milky Way
Our Solar System
The Sun And Planets Order & Characteristics
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Cover
Introduction
Common Core Standards (Reading, Listening, Science)
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Betsy Ross: Fact or Fiction? U.S. History Reader's Theater
The history of the flag of the United States is a compelling story, but historians are divided as to the facts. Did Betsy Ross really create the first flag? This play, which was originally published in my book, Read Aloud Plays: Symbols of America, and later reprinted in the January 2002 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine, encourages readers to become history sleuths. It includes the play script, a short reading supplement, a bubble quiz, a comprehension activity built around William Canb
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4th - 7th
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Theater Point of View
Experience a "twist" on the Three Billy Goats Gruff story by learning about the Troll's perspective in this witty Readers' Theater play and reading comprehension unit! Students will enjoy the script and review key reading and writing skills. ** This product is part of a bundle: check it out HERE!Students will enjoy reading (and acting out) this fun story. There are 6 parts, making this perfect for small groups. After reading the play, engage your students in a variety of reading and writing acti
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Bundle Point of View
Readers' Theater HALLOWEEN MYSTERY Script Grades 3-4 | Halloween Thieves Mystery
This grades 3-4 Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script will give students Halloween scares and giggles. The Mystery of the Halloween Thieves readers’ theater script will engage both ELA and drama classes. It requires learners to use critical thinking skills and make inferences from context clues to reveal the identities of two thieves. The script is intended for about 10 students but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded, depending on how many groups you wish to have.
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in:Â HALLOWEEN Grades 3-4 Brain Teaser Fun | Readers Theater, Activities, Games
TALL Tales Readers Theaters: Wild Women of the Old West!
There's NO doubt about it! Readers Theaters are an excellent way to make students WANT to read and ENJOY reading! This product contains four readers theaters about Wild Women of the Old West--Annie Oakley, Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Slue Foot Slue, and Calamity Jane!! These plays are written in kid friendly language using an old west dialect that helps kids to create characters while they perform in front of the class developing fluency and expression skills at the same time!Also inclu
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2nd - 5th
Character Analysis Lesson, Understanding Character Types and Roles for Gr. 4 - 6
Unlock the power of character analysis with this comprehensive reading lesson, "Understanding Character." Perfect for students in grades 4-6, this engaging and interactive resource is designed to enhance comprehension through a deep dive into character types and roles. This product is ideal for teachers looking to enrich their literacy curriculum with dynamic, standards-aligned activities.This Resource Includes:Warm-Up Theater Activity: Kick off the lesson with a fun and interactive theater warm
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4th - 6th
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