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5th grade Thanksgiving balanced literacy scripts
Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
Reader's Theater Scripts for BIG KIDS! Cover your reading literature standards while engaging your students with these high-interest reader's theater scripts and reading literature toolkits. Your upper elementary and middle school students will LOVE the chance to perform while working on fluency, comprehension, context clues, and writing. Each unit is a NO PREP, PRINT AND GO resource with ANSWER KEYS! This bundle includes 12-different reading literature toolkits. The scripts included are:• Ae
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4th - 8th
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Reader's Theater for Grades 4-8: The Cafeteria Catastrophe-A CCSS Pack
No Prep-Print and Go Reader's Theater Script and Comprehension Activities!The Cafeteria Catastrophe is an evergreen reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating high-interest stories into your language arts instruction. This 11 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!This 18-page fun pack includes:• 11-character, 9-
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
Winter Mindfulness Activity and Winter Craft: Joy and Gratitude Activity
In this winter mindfulness activity, students will participate in a mindfulness exercise to explore joy and warmth through their senses! Use the mindfulness script included to lead students through the exercise and reflect on their experience of joy or warmth in their hearts. Students then create a hot cocoa craft and identify things that bring them joy. This includes a mindfulness script and cut and no-cut craft printables. This activity is perfect for classroom guidance lessons, small group c
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2nd - 5th
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Thanksgiving Reader's Theater or Thanksgiving Play with 26 Speaking Parts
Thanksgiving Reader's Theater! Gobble It Up! is a Thanksgiving play script or reader's theater for students to read aloud or act out. The setting is the first Thanksgiving, and the Pilgrims and the Native Americans are coming together for a three-day feast. Mr. Turkey Lurkey has to take cover or become Thanksgiving dinner. It is a comedy that will make you laugh. There are 26 short speaking parts, so everyone can be involved! It takes approximately 20-25 minutes to be performed. No costumes ne
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities Bundle Grades 3 - 6
Jackie Robinson readers theater baseball play
Here's a compelling play about Jackie Robinson. Over my nearly thirty years of using drama in the classroom, kids say this is one of their favorites to enact. This original script recounts the events surrounding Jackie's breaking of the color barrier through the narration of the Hot Dog Man and the Peanut Vendor at an "actual" ballgame today. (You can hear a podcast presentation of the play at ReadAloudPlays.com) Parts for from 7 to 13 actors, and suitable for reader's theater, podcast, or sta
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4th - 7th
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Thanksgiving Reader's Theater Script and Activities for Grades 4-7
The Gift of Time is a Thanksgiving reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating Thanksgiving themes into your language arts instruction. This 13 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!This Thanksgiving Reader's Theater and Reading Literature Toolkit includes:• 8-page, 13-character script• clear directions for immed
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
Read Aloud Plays: The Monkey's Paw gothic masterpiece
Now with comprehension activities and extensions! This adaptation of W.W. Jacobs''s Gothic masterpiece is perfect for grades 5 through 8 (and potentially 4th). Originally published in the April 2012 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, use it as fluency-building reader's theater or as as a full classroom production or podcast. This twenty-minute play includes nine pages and parts for up to eleven students. What would you do with three wishes? Readers of the Monkey's Paw learn that those who med
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5th - 8th
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Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart Modernized Readers Theater
A clever adaption of Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic masterpiece in a modern setting. Uniquely suitable for a wide-range of readers. Because the "beating heart" is an annoying cell phone, all your fourth through eighth graders will readily relate to the story. Whether reader's theater or stage production, this fifteen-minute play includes parts for up to nine students. Original purchaser is licensed to reproduce a full class set every year! Looking for a traditional re-telling? Take a look at my Tell-T
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5th - 8th
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Thanksgiving Fall Mindfulness Exercise and Thanksgiving Gratitude Craft
In this Fall mindfulness activity, students will participate in a mindfulness exercise to explore gratitude through their senses! Use the mindfulness script included to lead students through the exercise and reflect on their experience of gratefulness. Students then create a turkey acrostic using their names to identify things they are grateful for. This includes a mindfulness script and full- and half-page craft printables.You might be interested in my other Thanksgiving activities and mindfuln
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2nd - 5th
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Reader's Theater Scripts for BIG KIDS Collection
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, and writing. Each no-prep PDF toolkit includes comprehension activities and answer keys, making it easy to incorporate reader's theater into any day!This COLLECTION bundle includes 24 different reading
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4th - 7th
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Thanksgiving Reader’s Theater Scripts for Practicing Reading Fluency
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these Thanksgiving reader’s theater plays have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the readers and the audien
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Ultimate Bundle for Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart Reader's Theater Play
Originally published in the October 2008 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine (and later reprinted in Scope, Scholastic News, and my book, Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories), this newly-revised script is true to the original text but is cleverly structured to be more appropriate for middle grade and young adult audiences. It includes the original text, a comprehension worksheet, a "mock trial" activity, as well as teacher notes and a key--fourteen pages in all. Parts for 9 students, s
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5th - 9th
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Headless Horseman Reader's Theater
The Headless Horseman conjures up images of ghosts and zombies--always engaging topics for young students. But “Sleepy Hollow” is more than just a ghost story. This original script is based on Washington Irving’s 1820 short story of the same name. It was originally published in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine and later reprinted in Scope. It also appears in Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories (2011, Scholastic). It’s aimed at 5th through 7th graders, but a strong 4
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4th - 8th
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Cyclops: The Monster in the Cave--Readers Theater from The Odyssey
Includes comprehension activity, key, and teacher notes! Liven up your reading curriculum and satisfy the Common Core with this kid-friendly classroom play based on the 9th book of Homer's The Odyssey. Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, "Cyclops" is suitable for reader's theater or stage performance. Use it to introduce the original text, build fluency, and improve comprehension. Pair it with a Percy Jackson novel as part of a literature circle! Or j
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5th - 9th
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READERS' THEATER THANKSGIVING MYSTERY MIDDLE SCHOOL SCRIPT
This humorous Thanksgiving Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script will give grades 5-8 students practice in reading, comprehension, critical thinking and writing, while having lots of drama and ELA fun. The Mystery of the Vanishing Turkey whodunnit script will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. Perfect for reading or for performances! This 9 page script is intended for 9 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded
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5th - 8th
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Fall ~ Thanksgiving Readers' Theater Script & More: Grades 3, 4, 5, & 6
Thanksgiving Readers' Theater Script & Literacy Toolkit for Grades 3, 4, 5 & 6: "Thanksgiving with Mr. Loony": From chainsaws to teddy bears to potato scavenger hunts, Mr. Loony's ideas for celebrating Thanksgiving are . . . well . . . loony.This Thanksgiving readers' theater script and the accompanying literacy activities will provide students with plenty of literacy-focused fall fun. The literacy toolkit is perfect for third-grade, fourth-grade, fifth-grade, and sixth-grade students a
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3rd - 6th
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3 Easy Art Projects to Explore Mexico (from Art Around the World)
This download contains a bundle of 3 unique art projects to explore Mexican culture. The projects are very simple, and require very few supplies. Just read the one page teacher script aloud to your students to learn about the culture and art project, and you're ready to begin!**Please Note: This resource is part of a larger bundle called Art Around the WORLD for Elementary students that contains 18 simple and engaging art lessons for six different countries. Or, you can other best selling art re
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1st - 6th
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ELA Emergency Sub Plans for Middle School Vol. 5
Emergency ELA Sub Plans for Middle School - Volume 5These language arts sub plans are perfect for filling (or refreshing) your substitute binder with engaging, standards-based activities. This is a true stand-alone resource that was designed to offer a print and go sub plan solution for middle school ELA teachers. No additional books or companion materials are needed!This resource includes:• 3-page high-interest reader’s theater script • 1-page informational text• Reader Response Questions for e
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Also included in: ELA Emergency Sub Plans Bundle for Middle School
Read Aloud Play: Stolen Childhoods--Lewis Hine's Crusade to End Child Labor
At the height of the Great Depression, the pioneering photography of Lewis Hine freed generations of children from having to slave away for pennies an hour in coal mines, canneries, and textile mills. Hine often risked physical harm to photograph children in deplorable working conditions, but his work eventually led to the establishment of America’s child labor laws. Originally published in the Oct. 31, 2011, issue of Scope Magazine and republished in the Feb. 27, 2012, issue of Junior Scholasti
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4th - 7th
Math Fairy Tales Reader's Theater Scripts
This pack includes the following reader theater scripts for integrating math content into reading. Content Vocabulary integrated: Angles: Acute, Right, and Obtuse, Lines: Perpendicular, Parallel, Intersecting, Symmetry, ReflectionGoldilocks and the Three Angles: Goldilocks spends the day investigating the home of the Three Angles, until she learns that acute is too small, right is just right, and obtuse is too big for her square angle investigator. 3 pgs.Parallela and her Wicked Stepsisters: Pa
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3rd - 5th
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3 Easy Art Projects to Explore Canada (from Art Around the World)
This download contains a bundle of 3 unique art projects to explore Canadian culture. The projects are very simple, and require very few supplies. Just read the one page teacher script aloud to your students to learn about the culture and art project, and you're ready to begin!**Please Note: This resource is part of a larger bundle called Art Around the WORLD for Elementary students that contains 18 simple and engaging art lessons for six different countries. Or, you can other best selling art r
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1st - 6th
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Idioms - As Easy as ABC! Reader's Theater script for 3rd 4th or 5th grade
This original reader’s theater presents over 25 common idioms for students to learn through a fun, engaging, and leveled script. Containing 23 parts, EVEYONE will become involved with practice in fluency, expression, and figurative language. Parts are divided among three reading levels (emerging, moderate, and fluent) to ensure confidence for all!
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*original 5 pg script
*leveled cast of characters
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3rd - 6th
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Reader's Theater: What is Veterans Day? (leveled play for 3rd, 4th, 5th grade)
This original play explaining the history of and the meaning for Veterans Day will have your students engaged from start to finish! Over 15 parts that can be divided into multiple ways will ensure that all students will get a chance to participate and strengthen their fluency and expression skills. In addition, individual parts are leveled by reading ability to ensure differentiation! Great opportunity to connect knowledge of an important national holiday with common core standards in Languag
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Special Holidays in America: Reader's Theater Bundle for 4th Grade
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf Mock Trial Reader's Theater
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf Reader's Theater - Mock Trial Script of BB Wolf v Curly PigUse teach...-Fluency-Court System and Trial Process-Persuasive Writing or Argument WritingThe script has speaking roles for:JudgeBB WolfCurly PigJack, the builderCurly Pig’s LawyerBB Wolf’s LawyerJurorsThe script can include nonspeaking roles for:JurorsBailiffStenographerAudienceReportersAlso INCLUDED:-Differentiation OPTIONS-Options for FUN-Lesson Extension lesson-Graphic organizers for identif
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3rd - 5th
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