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Free oral communication holidays/seasonal scripts
Readers' Theater: The Very Cranky Bear
4 animal friends just want to get out of the rain and play in a nice, warm spot. 1 cranky bear just wants to take a nap in his nice, dry cave. Everything ends up working out, but not before the bear ends up looking ridiculous! This play is based on the book by Nick Bland. It is 4 pages long and has 7 parts: Narrator 1, Narrator 2, Moose, Zebra, Lion, Sheep and Bear.
Readers' Theater helps kids improve their reading fluency (pace, smoothness and expression) and self-confidence!
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K - 3rd
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Readers' Theater: The Stinky Cheese Man
If you know and love the classic tale of the Gingerbread Man, then you'll laugh yourself silly reading this fractured fairy tale play, which is based on the book "The Stinky Cheese Man" by Jon Scieszka.
-The script is 5 pages long
-There are 8 characters (Narrator, Stinky Cheese Man, old man, old
woman, girl, boy, cow, fox)
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K - 3rd
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Christmas Play Reader's Theater: The Gingerbread Man
This is a 4 page, 7 part reader's theater script of the Gingerbread Man with a Santa theme. Mrs. Claus makes a gingerbread man but he runs away. He is chased by Santa, a reindeer, and an elf. Finally a polar bear eats him up.The script is written with primary students in mind and has parts suitable for Emergent Readers and Transitional readers as follows:o Emergent (roughly levels 4-8) Mrs. Clause, Reindeer, Santao Transitional (roughly levels 10-12): Elf, Gingerbread Man, Polar Bear o High T
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Christmas Plays: Reader's Theater for Grades 1 and 2
Readers' Theater: The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Three brothers go looking for delicious grass but come across a big ugly troll with huge eyes and a long nose. They manage to get past him, the last one knocking him off his own bridge. This classic tale is fun to perform!This play is 2.5 pages long and has 5 characters: Narrator, Big Billy Goat, Medium Billy Goat, Little Billy Goat, Troll.
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K - 2nd
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Reader's Theater: 13 Colonies-Life in a New England Colony!
Bring key characteristics of the 13 colonies to life with this FREEBIE Reader’s Theater script featuring the New England Colonies! This is part of a leveled set of 3 reader’s theater featuring the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial way of life plus additional comparison activities! This freebie script contains 6 parts, making it a perfect activity for centers or leveled guided reading groups! This activity helps integrate Social Studies history content with Language Arts common core s
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3rd - 6th
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The Harvest Moon Reader's Theater and Reading Literature Toolkit FREEBIE
The Harvest Moon is a concept your students may have heard of, but have no idea what it is all about. In this 2-page realistic fiction, 6-character script, your students will learn a bit of information about this autumnal event.Included in this fall common core aligned toolkit:• 2-page, 6-character script• reader response questions• context clue word work• a journal prompt for post-reading writingEstimated Lexile Measure is 850.If you are looking for a quick script to enhance student comprehens
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Readers Theater: Greatest Hits FREEBIES
17 scripts (14 fiction & 3 non-fiction) with anywhere from 2 to 7 characters to help your students improve their reading fluency (pace, smoothness, expression) and have fun!
Included with the scripts are some informational pieces about close reading and Readers' Theater.
Over 100 pages for FREE, enjoy!
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1st - 4th
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The Year Santa Got Mixed Up! - Readers Theater for the Entire Class
This is a Reader's Theater for the entire class. It can be performed at any time but is usually performed at Christmas. Reader's Theater is a terrifically fun way to improve your fluency.The Year Santa Got Mixed Up by Melanie Whitesides is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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3rd - 8th
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Readers' Theater: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (partner & trio play)
These two plays are loosely based on the popular book by Laura Numeroff. Kids will have fun acting out the book and will work on improving their fluency (pace, smoothness & expression) at the same time!
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K - 3rd
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Thanksgiving Reader's Theater Five Plump Turkeys
A reader's theater created for first and second grade from the poem Five Plump Turkeys. Students will enjoy reading from this one page script and acting out the roles. This skit is perfect for most almost mid year readers. Parts could be doubled by pairing a low reader with a higher reader. My first graders love to perform reader theaters for their reading buddies and our school's kindergarten classes. It would be great for a parent night too. I hope you enjoy it and please contact me if you
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K - 2nd
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Jack and the Beanstalk Reader's Theater
Jack and the Beanstalk is a familiar story to many children. This is a reader's theater script for students to apply art standards in the area of drama. Students can work in groups and even make their own props. My students love reader's theater and I hope yours do too!
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1st - 3rd
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Fun, Christmas Readers Theater – Not the Night Before Christmas
Twas the week before Christmas and all through the houseEv'ry creature was stirring, especially the mouse!"Here’s a rollicking Readers Theater rendition of the old poem "The Night Before Christmas" by Carol Montgomery of Readers Theater All Year™. Your students or family will enjoy this fun Christmas Readers Theater script. Here’s what one teacher wrote: "Wow! I have to tell you that your script, Twas not the night before Christmas (????) is soooo funny. The kids love it! Thank you. They laug
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3rd - 5th
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The Twelve Days of Christmas ...Vacation – A Free Readers Theater
“The Twelve Days of Christmas ...Vacation”Readers Theatre Script by Carol MontgomeryNo Santa. No elves. Just twelve tongue-twisting days of Christmas... vacation. Based on the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" ("12 Days of Christmas"), this rollicking rendition may motivate students to clean their rooms by the time they finish! The annotated curriculum links at the end even include a math lesson. Perhaps YOUR students would have fun creating their own compositions of "The Twelve Days of
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2nd - 4th
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Social Stories | Making friends | Printable book in English & Spanish | FREEBIE
Enjoy this FREE printable Social Story about making friends at recess. Use it during your SEL block to explicitly teach this life skills that students need in order to be successful in school. This resource will help you create a problem solving, kind, empathetic and socially intelligent classroom community.Inside this resource you will find:1 English printable mini-book in B& W1 Spanish printable mini-book in B& WDon't forget to check out these other resources:Social Stories | Making fr
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PreK - 2nd
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Black History Month Poem - Ruby Showed the Way
Ruby Bridges was only six.
People tried to hit her with sticks.
Hateful words at her thrown
Hate to all with her skin tone.
The first stanza of an original poem written for a Black History Month program. Can also be used as an introduction to a unit on the Civil Rights Movement, Ruby Bridges or or character education unit.
Black History Month Poem - Ruby Showed the Way by Carol S. Oaks is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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3rd - 5th
The Great Turkey Race Readers Theater
Grab this freebie!This Readers Theater is perfect for building your students fluency. There are 18 parts. It can be shortened by combining some of the parts into smaller roles if needed. Your kids will love it. Mine did. This play is perfect for grades 1-4
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1st - 4th
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Speech Therapy Visuals for Conjunctions | FREE
This is a sample FREEBIE that coordinates with my visuals for speech therapy and student success STRIPS and SIGNS products. This free download contains visual STRIPS and SIGNS for coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, plus alternate covers for the paid complete products. ⭐️ Products related to this item:Essential Visuals for Speech Therapy SIGNS ❤️ Explicitly teach and then cue your students working on combining sentences with these FREE essential visuals!The complete products can be foun
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K - 5th
Also included in: Visuals for Speech Therapy Language Supports | Bundle | Back to School
George Washington
This reader’s theater script will have your students learning all about President George Washington while working on their reading fluency at the same time. This reader's theater script is free and is one of 6-2 part scripts of different Presidents in my Presidents' Day resource. The Presidents' Day resource includes reader's theater scripts, vocabulary, compare and contrast activity, cloze sentences for comprehension and everything you need to make great biography reports on the presidents. M
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2nd - 4th
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St. Nicholas Night Reader's Theater and Close Reading Toolkit
Reader's Theater for BIG KIDS!St. Nicholas Night! I find reader's theaters to be a really fun way to focus on various skills in my upper elementary classroom. My students love to perform and may still need some work in the area of fluency, comprehension, word work, and writing. If your crew has the same needs, this is the perfect toolkit for you.St. Nicholas Night is a holiday that is celebrated in Europe, but is also a tradition that is celebrated here in some communities in North America.
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4th - 8th, Staff
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Whole Brain Teaching - First Hour Cue Cards
I thought of this idea during Tuesday's (7/24/12) Whole Brain Teaching webcast (Program 532) about the First Hour of the First Day! So many people kept saying they were afraid they would forget something. So here is my solution. These cards a script based off the webcast.
WBT - First Hour Cue Cards by Deanna Schuler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Based on a work at http://wholebrainteaching.com/.Permissions beyond the scope of th
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PreK - 6th
Readers' Theater: Moose's Loose Tooth
This cute story by Jacqueline A Clarke, about a Moose whose tooth just won't come out but wants to be visited by the Tooth Fairy, comes to life in this play.
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K - 3rd
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"Earth Day Hen and Friends" Readers Theater–Reading Comp.–Fluency, spring–fall
"The Earth Day Hen and Friends" (Primary grades)an original Readers Theater by Carol MontgomeryDo you want to motivate your students to recycle, create less waste, and maybe even raise worms? Okay, skip the worms if you want. Are you looking for an Earth Day or environmental Readers Theater script that's humorous and educational?
This free Earth Day Readers Theater script for primary level readers should generate giggles and discussions about the environment. Complete with annotated curricu
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1st - 3rd
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Free Valentine's Day Readers' Theater Script Poem - Free Poetry - Grades 3 4 5 6
Free Valentine's Day readers' theater poetry script: "Charlie Gave Me Chocolates": A fast and funny Valentine's Day 2-reader poem for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades.Readers' theater is a terrific teaching tool for developing students' reading fluency. Furthermore, the natural rhythm of poetry can further support students as they develop into fluent readers. That combination of readers' theater and poetry makes this free poem a perfect fluency-builder.* * * * *This fast and funny readers' theater
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3rd - 6th
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Readers' Theater: Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers partner & trio plays
A fantastic way to improve your students' fluency (rate, smoothness, expression) is to have them do partner and trio plays during reading time. They are fun, engaging and helpful!
These plays are based on 2 of Laura Numeroff's books and the third one was created by me:
-Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers (partner & trio)
-Chimps Don't Wear Glasses (partner & trio)
-Snakes Don't Wear Pants (partner & trio)
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K - 2nd
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