Context Clues Practice: Partner Play Scripts and Worksheets 4th 5th

Do your students enjoy reading scripts? Could they benefit from practice activities where they are required to use context clues as they read? This set of five partner plays is perfect for students who would benefit from targeted activities that work toward building reading fluency and using context clues to infer the meaning of a word within a text.

These five partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th and 5th-grade students can read with a partner. It comes with a BONUS context clues worksheet. After reading each script, students are asked to define four underlined words in the script.

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 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. If you choose the printable option, you will have access to versions with color clip art and blackline clip art. Each script is exactly two pages, making it easy to print them back-to-back on a single page.

This set includes five independent scripts. The words that must be defined are written in parentheses):

• Lending a Helping Hand (immaculate, strenuous, altruistic, recuperating)
• Innocently Accused (innocent, culprit, repulsive, reprimand)
• Good Luck/Bad Luck (spouse, grave, dreadful, escorted)
• It's All About Attitude (mundane, pessimistic, optimistic, adverse)
• The Unexpected Art Piece (adept, enraged, colossal, cherish)

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

⭐️ Jamie M. said, "My students enjoyed using this to learn about context clues. It kept them more engaged than a typical short story. I had students work as partners to read the play and use context clues to figure out the meaning."

⭐️ The Texas Teacher said, "My students have SO much fun with your scripts! My co-teacher and I fight (nicely!) over who gets to use them in our small groups because it makes the kids so happy! They have no idea how much it helps them with their fluency, not to mention the skill of the week!"

⭐️ Yvonne C. said, "My ELLs love them! They can work on their fluency as well as a reading skill. They just love these!"

⭐️ Emily J. said, "Love that my students will be combining always-needed fluency practice with the skill of using context clues."

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You may want to check out the other upper elementary partner plays I have written:

Greek Mythology

Animal Adaptations

Figurative Language

Inferences

Character Traits

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