Earth Day Reading Activities: Readers' Theater Script, Vocab +: Grade 3, 4, 5, 6

Earth Day Activities ~ Poetry & Readers' Theater - Earth Day Readers' Theater Script & Activities: "Twas the Night before Earth Day": Get students thinking about Earth Day with some fun fluency practice. This 25-page toolkit of Earth Day activities makes a terrific reading activity to celebrate Earth Day and get students thinking about ways they can help the environment. It also comes with access to a ready-to-use 9-page TpT Digital Activity that students can complete digitally in literacy centers or as a part of distance learning activities. Suitable for students in grades 3, 4, 5 & 6.

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This Earth Day readers' theater literacy toolkit is also available as part of a discounted bundle of 11 different holiday-themed readers' theater literacy toolkits and poetry collections:

*HOLIDAY READERS' THEATER ALL-SCHOOL-YEAR FUNNY BUNDLE.

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The literacy toolkit includes the following:

>"Twas the Night before Earth Day": 3-page script for 2-5 readers

>"Twas the Night before Earth Day": 2-page version in poem format

>Vocabulary: Word Work activity

>Comparing with Similes graphic organizer activity

>Inside the Actions of Recycle Rick: 1-page environmental factsheet

>Making an Earth Day Difference activity

>An overview of readers' theater & the four elements of fluent reading

The script includes a list of “Watch-out words!” This feature highlights challenging words for which students may need help as they practice. These words also make terrific candidates for classroom vocabulary instruction.

If you choose to do script-based vocabulary instruction, the Word Work vocabulary activity included with the script uses the “Watch-out words!” for more in-depth vocabulary study. A Sample Answer Key is included.

If you want to strengthen students' skills with interpreting and using figurative language, you can use the Comparing with Similes graphic organizer activity as another extension of the script. A Sample Answer Key is included.

Inside the Actions of Recycle Rick is a 1-page factsheet that takes a closer look at some of the actions of the main character in the script, showing how his actions benefit the environment.

As a final activity, you can have students complete the Making an Earth Day Difference activity sheet. They brainstorm their own ways to help the environment and then use the internet and/or other resources to find facts supporting why their actions could make an important difference.

A basic overview of readers' theater is also provided, including information on the four essential components of reading fluency—accuracy, rate, phrasing, and expression.

The file is in PDF format.

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Also, consider some of my other readers' theater bundles:

* READERS' THEATER MEGA BUNDLE OF SILLINESS

* READERS' THEATER POETRY BUNDLE