READERS' THEATER THANKSGIVING & CHRISTMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL BUNDLE

This exciting 30% ($4.00 off) Readers' Theater seasonal bundle will ensure that you are set for Thanksgiving and Christmas fun lessons! These no-prep, high-interest scripts give you all the drama activities you need for two of the year's biggest holidays. Two of the scripts are Readers' Theater mysteries, so after the read aloud, your students will become detectives. Get 3 scripts for the price of 2! Question sheets and answers are included for all of the scripts.

Readers' Theater Thanksgiving Mystery
This amusing Thanksgiving Readers’ Theater whodunnit brain teaser mystery script will give students practice in reading, comprehension and writing, while having lots of fun. The Mystery of the Vanishing Turkey printable and Easel Activity script will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The script is intended for 9 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded depending on how many groups you wish to have.

PLOT

This funny and engaging story is about the theft of a family’s mound of turkey leftovers. Which desperate family member, driven mad by turkey tacos, turkey meatballs, and turkey bolognaise, stole the leftovers container from the fridge? The clues seem to point to 11 year old Daisy and 13 year old Darius, but is it really them? Mom won’t rest until she knows!

STUDENT TASKS
To track down the turkey thief, students will have to disentangle three major clues. To end the activity, students discuss and then write on six questions, complete a journal entry and design a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ style drawing for a fellow student to locate the turkey leftovers container. There is also a mix and match Thanksgiving jokes activity, and a word search. This resource will delight both entire classes and small groups of early finishers.

Question sheets and answers are included.

Readers' Theater Christmas Mystery
This amusing Christmas Middle School Readers’ Theater brainteaser mystery script will give students practice in reading, comprehension and writing, while having lots of fun. The Mystery of the Vanishing Presents printable and Easel Activity script will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The script is designed for 11 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded depending on how many groups you wish to have.

PLOT
This funny and engaging story is about two Christmas Eve thefts: one of a family's stack of presents from under the tree, and the other of an expensive breed of puppy. 12 year old twins Sloane and Sporty have to exercise their sharpest detection skills to track down the culprits. Even when they do, the reasons for the thefts are not what they expect. They learn that Christmas is about so much more than presents! This is the second Sloane and Sporty mystery. The first is READERS' THEATER SCARY MYSTERY MIDDLE SCHOOL SCRIPT

STUDENT TASKS

-- Students read out their individual roles.
-- They solve the two thefts. To track down the thieves themselves, students disentangle some major clues. They write out their guesses on a mystery answer sheet before the culprits are revealed.
-- They discuss and then write on six questions, and complete a journal entry.
-- An assortment of Christmas activities are provided for early finishers. They design a ‘Spot the Difference’ style Christmas tree drawing, unite Christmas riddles with their answers, and match funny names to appropriate books.

Question sheets and answers are included.

Readers' Theater Christmas Script: Chilly the Snowman

This fun winter Readers’ Theater Script introduces Middle School students to the TRUE tale of a much loved Christmas character. A lot of fake news surrounds the legend of Frosty the Snowman - including his name - and this amusing script will reveal the real deal.

PLOT
In a merry morality tale, students will learn how a cold-hearted snowman is transformed thanks to the kindness of an elf child. Chilly learns to put his
mean pranks aside and become the most loved snowman at the North Pole.
HOW TO USE THIS SCRIPT

It can be used either in small groups, or perhaps even better, for the whole class. The students who do not have an individual speaking part will read the words or make the sounds or actions indicated when the character tag EVERYONE appears. When actions or sounds have to made by EVERYONE, the instructions are in bold italics.
STUDENT TASKS

-- Students read out their individual roles.
-- They participate in reading the EVERYONE responses together as a whole group.
-- They discuss and then write on three questions on the script, and complete a journal entry.
-- An assortment of Christmas activities are provided for early finishers. In a mix and match Christmas jokes activity they reunite jokes with their punchlines, do
a word search AND unscramble a page of Christmas words.
Question sheets and answers are included, of course! Please take a peek at the preview.

Reader's Theater Reading Tips and Rubric
This fun PowerPoint and PDF gives Middle School readers' theater participants several useful tips on how to read in a lively way. It also supplies a full teacher rubric, brief peer feedback forms AND self evaluation sheets. With this resource you have everything you need for a readers' theater unit- all you need to do is supply the script! Both a PowerPoint and a PDF are included to give you maximum flexibility on how you can use this resource.

What is included:

Advice to students on how to read to create an interesting, believable character.

Two short exercises.

A 30 point, 3 category rubric to mark students' performance.

A peer feedback form (2 to a page)

A self-evaluation form (2 to a page)

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If your students enjoy this script, they will have fun with these three mystery romps: READERS' THEATER- MYSTERY OF THE DRAMA CAMP THIEF
READERS' THEATER SCARY MYSTERY MIDDLE SCHOOL SCRIPT
Readers' Theater - Mystery of the Stolen Laptop
Try a Young Holmes mystery, based on a classic Sherlock Holmes story:

YOUNG HOLMES READERS' THEATER MYSTERY SCRIPT
For oodles of drama fun, try Drama Games for Middle School.
Students will also love the 15 tales in Mini Mysteries grades 5-8 and this long, single mystery: Brain teaser mystery fun inferential skills practice
OR select a bundle of ELA Games and mini-mysteries: Brain Teaser Bundle grades 5-8

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