Animal Adaptations Partner Plays: 5 Scripts with a Comprehension Check Worksheet

These eight animal adaptations partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th-5th students can do with a partner. This set of scripts focuses on fascinating animal adaptations that are sure to astound your students. Many animals are featured, including the thorn bug, the cuckoo bird, the pistol shrimp, the hippopotamus, the elephant, the duck, the pufferfish, the humpback whale, the butterfly fish, and the Texas horned lizard.

It also includes a BONUS comprehension worksheet. After reading each script, students answer two comprehension questions that accompany that particular script.

This resource is available in multiple formats. Each teacher gets to choose the format that best meets his/her students' needs. You will choose between the printable partner plays and the paperless version that uses Google Slides. These plays contain real photographs of each animal.

These scripts require minimal teacher support, thereby allowing teachers to work with other small groups. For teachers who implement reading centers, these plays are perfect. These scripts are also ideal for parents who are looking for fun at-home reading activities that parents and children can read together. If you have a child who is reluctant to read at home, I encourage you to give these scripts a try!

This set includes eight independent scripts:

• Learning About Adaptations (elephant ears, duck's webbed feet, bears hibernation)
• Watch Out for the Thorn Bugs (thorn bugs)
• The Cunning Cuckoo (cuckoo bird)
• Underwater Adaptations (pufferfish, butterfly fish, flatfish)
• Scary Deer Doodles (tufted deer)
• Migrating Whales (humpback whales)
• Texas Horned Lizard: Most Bizarre Adaptation? (Texas horned lizard)
• And the Winning Animal Is... (hippopotamus & pistol shrimp)

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Here's what teachers like you had to say about using these plays with their students:

⭐️ Leslie B. said, "I highly recommend Deb's partner plays! They were a big hit with my students last year during our reading rotations, and I loved them because they were no prep and helped me incorporate science and social studies content with ease!"

⭐️ Jacquie N. said, "What a fun and interesting topic! If you haven't tried Deb's partner plays, your students are missing out! I have purchased many for my 4th grade students and they can't get enough!"

⭐️ Kristin F. said, "Love these partner plays so much! And they fit in with our fluency targets AND science!"

⭐️ Amanda S. said, "My students absolutely loved these plays! I was planning on each of my groups reading only one of the plays, but my kids begged me to read all of them so we extended our unit."

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You may want to check out the other upper elementary partner plays I have written for students in GRADES 4-5:

Greek Mythology

Figurative Language

Inferences

Fall & Halloween

Christmas Traditions Around the World

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