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1st grade science scripts
Animal Classification ELA and Science Unit, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade
Animal Classification (An ELA and Science Unit)These wonderful activities go along great with any animal unit. They are especially great to support and enhance your science lessons on animal groups. The reader theater scripts are two part scripts that focus on information about each animal group. There are 6 animal groups highlighted: mammals, reptiles, insects, fish, amphibians and birds. The students can take turns being the different animals, learn new vocabulary and work on their reading f
Plants: Science Reader's Theater and Experiments
Combine some Science with your Language Arts. This is a readers’ theater script plus 7 experiments explaining what a seed needs to grow and what each part of the plant does. The script is 4 pages with 8 parts and is particularly useful for early readers as it has parts suitable for Emergent and Transitional Readers as follows:High Emergent (roughly levels 6-8): RainTransitional (roughly levels 10-12): Seed, Sun, Roots, LeavesHigh Transitional (roughly levels 14-16): Soil, Stem, NarratorThere ar
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K - 2nd
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STEM Seasonal BUNDLE - 30 Projects with Partner Plays STEM + Writing Spring
Kids love STEM, and these seasonal STEM activities integrate literacy through simple partner plays! Each challenge features a fun project, making it easy to explore STEM throughout the year in your integrated literacy program for kindergarten and first grade. This full year BUNDLE features 30 partner plays and 5 seasonal themes, including Easter, Spring and more! What is STEM?STEM involves:★ presenting students with an authentic problem★ challenging students to collaborate for possible solutions
Grades:
1st - 3rd
The Life Cycle of a Sunflower Seed to Plant, Reader's Theater Script; Level 1
The Life Cycle of a Seed Reader's Theater script Level 1Bring your science standards to life with this engaging Reader's Theater play designed to help your students learn about the life cycle of a sunflower seed. This fun script reinforces reading skills, science standards, science vocabulary, fluency, and speaking and listening skills. Students will learn how a sunflower seed needs water, sunlight, and soil to grow and what each stage of the plant life cycle looks like, starting and ending with
Science Discussion Starters
Science Scaffolds for Discussion
This product includes 11 science discussion starter posters.
Black&White + Color Included
When scientists share their ideas, they may say ...
I noticed ____.
My data shows ____.
I think ___ because ___.
I wonder ___.
I observed ____.
When scientists respond to others, they may say ...
Can you explain to me?
What do you think?
What evidence do you have?
Are you saying _____?
I agree with ___ because ____.
I respectfully disagree because ____.
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K - 8th
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Weather and Seasons Readers Theater Set 1
Enjoy and learn from these Reader's Theater scripts about seasons, hurricanes, tornadoes and weatherSet #1 is Weather and SeasonsThere are 4 scripts in this set.The Four Seasons:What’s Your Favorite Season Group Graphing Activity (includes bar graph and tally marks recording sheets)1 full script in black and white with Character Cards1 full script in color with Character Cards with a girl narrator1 full script in color with Character Cards with a boy narratorHurricanes1 graphic organizer to reco
Readers' Theater: The Life Cycle of the Frog
This non-fiction Readers' Theater play will help your students improve their fluency (pace, smoothness, expression) AND learn some science at the same time!
More details:
-2.5 pages
-characters: narrator, kid, egg, tadpole, froglet, frog
-Comprehension Check quiz
-Draw & Label the life cycle worksheet
-Write about the life cycle pages
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K - 3rd
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Kids Weather Report template
Become a meteorologist and create your own weather report. This is a fill in the blank template page geared for elementary age kids. I have also included a completely blank template for kids to rewrite their report or come up with their own phrases to use when talking about the weather.This template encourages children to write about types of weather, clothing appropriate for the day, city in which they live (or are reporting the weather from) temperate in degrees F or C, day of the week, and ty
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K - 5th
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33 Animal Riddles–Readers Theater Partner Plays–Fluency–Listening Skills
33 Animal Riddles Readers Theater Partner Plays with Flexi-Curric™ *33 Original Readers Theatre Scripts by Carol Montgomery (updated January 2017)TIME: Each script takes about 30 seconds to read.
CAST: 2+, or 2 CHORAL groups
TONE: light, game-like
READABILITY: grades K to 1+ * Our Flexi-Curric™ shortcut allows flexible, cross-curricular options for your local standards because YOU know what’s right for YOUR students. What could you do with 33 different animal riddles Reade
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K - 2nd
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Readers' Theater: The Water Cycle
This non-fiction play fuses reading and science to help students improve their fluency, learn more about H20 and have fun!
There are 5 characters: Narrator, Kid, Water Drop, Sun, Cloud
The play is 4 pages long
In addition to a script, there are a few follow-up extension activities:
* A comprehension quiz
* A drawing and labeling page
* An informative writing activity WITH pre-writing booklet
* A Literature Response page
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1st - 3rd
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Insects Readers Theater–Ant–Bee–Butterfly–Cricket–Firefly–Ladybug–Nature Spring
Insects Readers TheaterEleven Science Readers Theater scripts to build curiosity and interest in insectsBy Carol MontgomeryWouldn’t your students love MORE Readers Theater? “Insects Readers Theater” provides plenty of opportunities for delightful character-building nature studies for primary level readers. Perfect for beginning readers of every age, our "Insects Readers Theater" collection comes in two font options with annotated curriculum links for easy lesson plans. Seven of these scr
Grades:
K - 2nd
Seasonal STEM with Partner Plays - SPRING STEM
SEASONAL STEM - SPRING with PARTNER PLAYS
These quick and easy STEM Challenges will make it SIMPLE to explore STEM in your classroom, while incorporating literacy through fun PARTNER PLAYS to set up each challenge!
Each STEM challenge is introduced through a simple seasonal partner play so that the engineering challenge will be purposeful and authentic.
The STEM challenge is meant to be completed after reading each partner play, and involves solving a problem for the characters in the play.
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1st - 3rd
Pollination: How Plants Grow; Reader's Theater Script Level 1
Pollination: How Plants GrowReader's Theater Script, Level 1Bring your science standards to life with this engaging Reader's Theater play designed to help your students learn about pollination and how pollinators are needed to help plants grow. This fun script reinforces reading skills, science standards, science vocabulary, fluency, and speaking and listening skills. Students will learn about pollinators such as the bumblebee, hummingbird, and butterfly and how important their job is to help po
Readers Theater Scripts Growing Bundle - 1st & 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension
Are you looking for 1st and 2nd grade standards-based ELA reading, vocabulary, and review activities? Or maybe a fun and engaging readers theater to help with fluency? Mix these fluency and standards-based reading skills for a fun and engaging activity!There are 3-4 reader’s theater scripts within each unit. They range between two and four characters. Each readers theater script comes with a cover page, headband or necklace pieces, color copies, or black and white copies for each script.Each scr
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1st - 2nd
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Teach Culinary Nutrition Education at Your School (5-Class Sample Pack)
Introduce your students to the joys of cooking with fresh vegetables, and teach them about the importance of healthy eating in a fun and interactive way.With our Teach VegeCooking program, your students will learn valuable skills that will last a lifetime, all while having a great time in the kitchen. Order your five-class sample pack today and start transforming the way your students think about food!These classes can be run over a five week period, or for a week-long, five-day summer camp. Wha
Readers' Theater: Diary of a Worm (Non-Fiction)
This 4 page non-fiction play features 2 characters (a worm and a kid) who teach kids about worms, through the eyes of a worm. There is also a 5 question comprehension check that goes along with the play.
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1st - 3rd
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Les plantes: une pièce de théâtre et des expériences de science
Voici un document sur les plantes qui contient une pièce de théâtre ainsi que 7 expériences sur les besoins d’une plante et d’une graine. La pièce raconte une histoire qui est correcte scientifiquement. En lisant le texte plusieurs fois les élèves comprennent comment pousse une plante et le travail de chaque partie de la plante. Le texte a des rôles pour les lecteurs débutants ainsi que ceux en transition et ceux à l’aise. This file contains a reader's theatre script in French on how a plant
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1st - 3rd
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Severe Storms News Report Readers Theatre
This five part readers theatre allows your students to work on their fluency and reading comprehension while also learning about severe weather and how to be prepared for it. Students will learn about hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes and ways to prepare for these natural disasters.
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1st - 8th
Reader's Theater Script: Force and Motion, Push or Pull, Friction
Reading and Science Integration: Force and MotionIntegrated Scripts4 CHARACTERSThis Readers’ Theater is a great resource to use in your classroom to integrate reading and science. You can use it in many ways: small group activity, center, or teacher table. Readers’ Theater is one of the best tools to have students gain fluency, accuracy, and comprehension in reading. It also reinforces listening skills, and teamwork. This script could be used after the teacher has introduced the unit of Force an
Spanish Reader's Theater Script: Force and Motion, Full Pack with Activities
Spanish ResourcesSpanish reading and science integration: Fuerza y movimientoActivities to Be Used in Small Groups, Centers, or Teacher Table.4 CHARACTERSThis script will refer to:Force and MotionPush or PullFrictionReaders’ Theater is one of the best tools to have students gain fluency, accuracy, and comprehension in reading. It also reinforces listening skills, and teamwork.It is a great resource to use in your classroom to integrate reading and science. You can use it in many ways: small grou
Science 1st Grade Reader's Theater Pack with Picture Clues
Use your students' natural love for plays and drama to reinforce NGSS science standards with this Reader's Theater pack. This pack covers first grade NGSS science standards, but could also be used with advanced K students or as a review for 2nd Grade students. Ten scripts are included. Each script has two roles for partner reading. The scripts contain picture clues for difficult words and science vocabulary is underlined. Titles and character labels are included, as well as directions on ho
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K - 2nd
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Seasonal STEM with Partner Plays - Christmas STEM
SEASONAL STEM CHRISTMAS with PARTNER PLAYS
These quick and easy STEM Challenges will make it SIMPLE to explore STEM in your classroom, while incorporating literacy through fun PARTNER PLAYS to set up each challenge!
Each STEM challenge is introduced through a simple seasonal partner play so that the engineering challenge will be purposeful and authentic.
The STEM challenge is meant to be completed after reading each partner play, and involves solving a problem for the characters in the play
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Readers' Theater: Lifecycles Non-Fiction MEGA pack
Help your students to improve fluency, infuse science AND have fun with these 8 Readers' Theater plays. Each play is 3-5 pages long with 2-6 characters.
Included with most plays:
-comprehension check
-draw & label
-writing activity (summarization)
Other goodies:
-close reading guidance
-fact finding worksheet
-word find
Subjects: apples, butterflies, flowers, frogs, pumpkin, salmon, snowman, water
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K - 4th
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Plants and Flowers: Information Text, Workbook, Experiments and Reader's Theater
This is a bundle of 4 products to engage primary students in the study of plants and flowers. It contains:An introductory E-book with simple text and large, realistic pictures. This 29-page non-fiction reader covers the parts of a seed, plant and flower, the purpose of each part, pollination and pollinators, plant reproduction and plants as food.A 20 page workbook to accompany the E-book and consolidate the students' learning from the book. The workbook contains an answer key and two versions
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1st - 3rd
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