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Readers Theater Scripts: Fractured Fairy Tales
The most engaging and memorable moment of the year: Readers Theater! These three short plays are perfect for helping students read with expression and fluency, review stage directions AND are an absolute HIT across grade levels!Included are THREE Readers Theater Scripts of ORIGINAL fractured fairytales in a PDF printable file! Name tags for each role are also included along with one blank page if you would like students to create their own character tags.These plays make a fantastic addition t
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Readers Theater Scripts - BUNDLE!
Fairy Tales reader's theater, activities, writing, plays 1st grade 2nd grade
This fairy tales unit includes reader's theater scripts or plays and writing activities, great for 1st grade and 2nd grade students!This fairy tale unit will be engaging and fun for your students! Three different reader's theater scripts are included along with puppets and many activities, including writing. This fairy tale resource includes reader’s theater scripts, for...Goldilocks and the Three BearsThree Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk.The plays or scripts can be used many different way
Reader's Theater Script - Fairy Tale Mock Trial for the Wolf of 3 Little Pigs
Reader's Theaters are a fun way to get your kids reading. This fairy tale mock trial is for Alexander T. Wolf from the book The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. This reader's theatre script is a fun fractured fairy tale of the Three Little Pigs. This script is for upper elementary (3rd, 4th, & 5th). This is also available for use with Google Classroom™ and is included using TPT's new digital tool!After you download the resource, click the red Create Digital Activity button to get the di
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Fairy Tales 2 reader's theater, activities, writing, plays, puppets
This fairy tale resource has a ton of fun activities for your students. This resource includes a fairy tale reader’s theater scripts for Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and The Frog Prince. This resource also includes many activities that meet the common core including writing. The plays or scripts can be used many different ways, keep them in a center, or use for guided reading instruction with an emphasis on fluency and expression. Children love to act out the parts and rereading the parts
Reader's Theater Scripts - Class Set - 3rd Grade Reading Level
Five engaging and entertaining Reader's Theater scripts featuring a variety of story lines. Students love practicing and performing these! The average performance time for each reader's theater script is 5 minutes. There are enough roles for your entire class! Reading level: third grade. Suitable for third graders, strong readers in second grade, and fluency practice for early fourth.You will find everything you need for each reader's theater script in this bundle, including:the script: pdf and
Christmas Readers' Theater Scripts Winter Fractured Fairy Tales: Grades 3 4 5 6
Christmas Readers' Theater Scripts & Winter Holiday Reading Activities for 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Grades: Here are three fractured fairy tale readers' theater scripts to take you through the wintertime (or anytime!) of year. This bundle includes the following Christmas-themed scripts by children's author T. P. Jagger:>"The Gingerbread Man" becomes . . . "The Gingerbread Dude": 6-page (approx. 7-minute) script for 4-9 readers>"Rapunzel" becomes . . . "Santapunzel": 5-page (approx. 5-mi
Aesop's Fables Readers Theater Scripts or Plays for 3rd, 4th & 5th Grades
Seven plays present Aesop’s fables in dramatic form. Scripts may be used for short skits, readers theater, or full-blown plays – for up to 40 students! Additionally, kids learn and label elements of drama.Open the preview to take a closer look at the activities.First, kids learn about structural elements of drama. Two reference guides offer definitions, as well as an annotated example.Cast of characters – list of characters in a playDialogue – words that tell the actors what to sayCharacter tag
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Aesop’s Fables Unit & Lesson Plans – Genre Study for 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
Readers' Theater Scripts - 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Grades - Mother Goose Interrupted
Readers' Theater Collection of Scripts: MOTHER GOOSE INTERRUPTED: In this 8-script collection of fast and funny readers’ theater scripts, Mother Goose is continually interrupted—whether by a confused nursery-rhyme listener, five talking toes, or an irate Mother Hubbard who wants to set the record straight about her empty cupboard. These scripts provide fun fluency practice for students in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades.The readers' theater scripts in the collection are based on the following nurs
Reader's Theater: Boston Tea Party
This is a great reader's theater script to introduce/reinforce the importance of the Boston Tea Party as a major event in our history leading to the American Revolution. In addition, it's great practice in the areas of expression and fluency. The following play script contains 23 individual parts, but can be easily adapted for a class of any size. I have ranked the parts by size (long, medium, short) in order to make it easier to differentiate parts for all levels of readers. In addition, I h
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: America Becomes a Nation: Reader's Theater Bundle for 4th Grade
Fairy Tales 3 reader's theater, writing, activities, plays, puppets
This fairy tale resource has a ton of fun activities for your students. This resource includes a fairy tale reader’s theater scripts or use as a play for Princess and the Pea, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Hansel and Gretel. This resource has many different activities that meet the common core including writing. The plays or scripts can be used many different ways, keep them in a center, or use for guided reading instruction with an emphasis on fluency and expression. Children love to act out
Aesop's Fables Readers' Theater Plays for Primary Grades
Are you looking for some fun, engaging fluency practice for your primary students? You need to make these Aesop's Fables Readers' Theater scripts part of your fluency activities! Your students will love these great stories, as well as have plenty of practice with reading fluency,Using Readers' Theater is a research-proven way to increase reading fluency, teach reading strategies, and engage students in your classroom. By combining this awesome approach with Aesop's Fables, you have a fantastic t
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1st - 3rd, Staff
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Presidents Day Readers Theater, Writing, Vocabulary 2nd grade - 3rd grade
Presidents' Day -Activities, Reader's Theater, Writing, VocabularyAre you looking for engaging and meaningful Presidents' Day activities? This resource has everything you need for a great ELA and History Unit on the Presidents. Your students will love learning about President George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, all while practicing their fluency, learning new vocabulary and writing a biography report on a president. Reader
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2nd - 4th
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Winter ~ Christmas Readers' Theater Scripts & Reading Activities, grades 3 4 5 6
Christmas Readers' Theater Scripts & Winter Reading Activities for Grades 3/4/5/6: Here's a fun wintertime bundle of fast and funny readers' theater scripts and bonus reading activities to take you through the Christmas season. The bundle includes two Christmas-themed literacy toolkits:*BOOMER THE BULLDOZING REINDEER: Everybody knows about Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. Now it's time they learned about the reindeer who has been saving Christmas ever since Santa decided chimneys make the bes
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3rd - 6th
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Christmas Around The World, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa Reader's Theatre and Activities
This super fun Christmas Around the World, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa Reader's Theatre will be a hit with your students!They will also learn a lot about other countries and their Christmas traditions. This pack has been updated on 11-4-15Please see Preview for a better look...Included are 28 child parts in this Reader’s Theatre Presentation-The parts tell the audience the traditions of their country from the point of view of a child. -Each country featured has two child parts. -Hanukkah and Kwanzaa pa
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2nd - 4th
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Thanksgiving Reader's Theater Bundle - 6 Scripts (25% Discount)
This product includes 6 different Thanksgiving reader's theater scripts to use with your students! These reader's theaters will enable the children to enjoy the stories even more as well as increase reading fluency and speaking skills. Over 20% discount when you purchase this bundle versus buying each resource individually!All of these reader's theater scripts are companion activities to each book. Give Thanks for Each Day by Steve Metzger - Reader's Theater CompanionGive Thanks for Each Day, to
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1st - 3rd
Reader's Theater Fairy Tales Scripts - Mock Trials of Fractured Fairy Tales
Are you looking for fun reader’s theater for your kids? These reader's theatre scripts are mock trials of your favorite fairy tales. These fractured fairy tale scripts will have your students decide if the villain is guilty or innocent of his/her crimes.Save 20% off when you buy the whole bundle. This is also available for use with Google Classroom™ and is included using TPT's new digital tool!After you download the resource, click the red Create Digital Activity button to get the digital versi
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3rd - 5th
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Halloween Reader's Theater Bundle - 6 Scripts (25% Discount)
This product includes 6 different #Halloween reader's theater scripts to use with your students! These reader's theaters will enable the children to enjoy the stories even more as well as increase reading fluency and speaking skills. #HappyHalloweenAll of these reader's theater scripts are companion activities to each book. Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin-Picking Plan - A Halloween Reader's TheaterWhen Splat the Cat goes with Seymour to a pumpkin patch, he is determined to find the biggest pumpki
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1st - 4th
How the Grinch Stole Christmas Reader's Theatre Activity
Are you looking for a fun engaging No-Prep Christmas Holiday Reader’s Theatre Activity? How the Grinch Stole Christmas Readers's Theatre is perfect for you! Do you need to work on reading skills, but your kiddos are excited about the holiday and hard to get focused? Then, put on my Reader’s Theatre and enjoy the accompanying activities. How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a classic. This is one of my favorite Reader's Theatre scripts. It is longer than most and has some fun choral reading built in
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2nd - 5th
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Reader's Theater: The American Revolutionary War (differentiated script)
Experience life as a Patriot or Redcoat soldier during the key events and battles of the American Revolutionary War! The war is brought to life in this whole class reader’s theater based on 4th grade Ohio Social Studies standards! This 9 page script features the following: Paul Revere’s midnight ride, the shot heard ‘round the world, Ethan Allen & Green Mountain Boys, the battle of Bunker Hill, Crossing the Delaware, Valley Forge, the Battle of Yorktown, the Treaty of Paris, and much mor
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Ohio 4th Grade Reader's Theater Mega Bundle!
Reader's Theater Play Scripts: Folktales Around the World
Incorporate cultural diversity into any language arts class with these folktale Reader's Theater scripts from around the world. These classic tales from Scotland, China, Mexico, Africa, and India would be a great addition to any history classroom as well, as they exhibit the cultures and traditions of various countries.This package includes five folktale-themed Reader's Theater scripts:- The Black Bull of Norroway from Scotland- The Magic Paintbrush from China- The Story of the Sun and the Moon
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2nd - 5th
Reader's Theater Fairy Tales - Mock Trial Readers Theatre Script of Goldilocks
Are you looking for a fun reader's theater for your kids? This reader's theatre script is a mock trial of Goldilocks. This fractured fairy tale will have your students decide if Goldilocks is guilty or innocent of her crimes.This script is for upper elementary (3rd, 4th, & 5th) and is a spin-off of the Goldilocks fairy tale. This is also available for use with Google Classroom™ and is included using TPT's new digital tool!After you download the resource, click the red Create Digital Activity
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3rd - 5th
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Fractured Fairy Tale Reader's Theater Bundle
This purchase includes printable scripts for 10 fractured fairy tale stories. For each script, there are at least 22 narrators and in most scripts, the narrators get to speak two times throughout the story. However, the scripts can easily be edited to accommodate more/less narrators depending on class/group size.
The Printable Fractured Fairy Tale Scripts Included Are:
1. Cinderelephant by Emma Dodd
2. Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears by Corey Rosen Schwartz
3. The Three Ninja Pigs by Corey Ros
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1st - 4th
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Santa is Sick! Christmas Play Script for Kids! Funny!
This Christmas play is so cute and so funny! This script has been teacher tested and audience approved! Prepare to laugh! So much fun! The script alone is 6 pages with cover; part of a 24 page book that contains Director's Notes, Cast of Characters list with characterization suggestions for casting, Costume Ideas, Parent Letters for both Daytime and Night Performance, Tips and Suggestions for a smooth performance, 6 Page "Santa is Sick" SKIT with cover, a read and color book related to the play,
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: Christmas Play Scripts BUNDLE of 4!
Reader's Theater: The Constitution-United We Stand! (leveled script)
Students will bring the development of the United States Constitution to life in this whole class reader’s theater based on 4th grade Ohio Social Studies standards! Students will gain a deeper understanding of the different state’s viewpoints in a connected and engaging way! This original play contains 22 parts featuring 3 reading levels to ensure whole class participation, fluency development, and differentiation. In addition, 14 name tags are included to make a class presentation of this pla
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Ohio 4th Grade Reader's Theater Mega Bundle!
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