The Day the Colored Pencils Resigned: A Reader's Theater and Literature Toolkit
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This bundle of text-based reader's theater scripts offers the perfect teaching tools for fluency, reading comprehension, and read aloud activities. Each original script is based on my favorite picture books and read aloud selections.Even though I teach middle school language arts, I still utilize "kPrice $11.00Original Price $18.75Save $7.75
The complete collection of Erin Beers' reader's theater scripts for BIG KIDS!Cover your reading literature standards while engaging your students with these high-interest reader's theater scripts.Your students will LOVE the chance to perform while working on fluency, comprehension, context clues, anPrice $49.00Original Price $90.00Save $41.00
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Have you read the picture book The Day the Crayons Quit? It may just be one of my favorite read alouds that lets students understand the funny perspectives of crayons. I loved this book so much that I created this reader's theater script to use with my class!
The Day the Colored Pencils Resigned is an evergreen reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating this high-interest story into your language arts instruction. This 12 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!
This 14-page lesson plan includes:
• Context Clue Word Work to enhance vocabulary
• Reader Response Questions to check for comprehension
• Summary Organizer for Interactive Notebooks
• Clear directions for immediate classroom use
• CCSS covered through student work
Estimated Lexile Level: 920L
Summary: Brennan is a student who is putting minimal effort into his art project. His colored pencils take notice and decide that enough is enough; either he puts forth more effort and considers their suggestions, or they may not return.
Your students will have a BLAST acting out this hilarious script. For extra practice, read the picture book The Day the Crayons Quit in order to have students compare and contrast similar texts.
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