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Martin Luther King Day environment scripts
Martin Luther King Day Reader's Theater Toolkit for Middle School
This Martin Luther King Readers Theater Unit is one your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating MLK Day activities into your language arts instruction. This 10-character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making it a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!This is the perfect resource for sharing information about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while staying on task with your reading and writ
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: ELA American History Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle for Big Kids
Sitting Down for Dr. King: Sit-ins Protests RT
Here's a powerful classroom play set during the Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins of 1960. The event is viewed through the eyes of a middle-class white boy who gets angry when the protests prevent him from enjoying his family celebration at the Woolworth. As the historically-accurate events unfold, he comes to understand the plight of the young protesters and in the end overcomes his own preconceptions to "stand" with them.Best suited for reader’s theater, podcast, or discussion-based classroom r
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5th - 8th
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January ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
This collection of January and New Year's activities includes the perfect standards-based resources to engage your students on their return from winter break. Use these print-and-go resources to give your students practice reading to self, reading to someone, listening to reading, word work, and writing—all centered around the seasonal themes of January!This January ELA Bundle includes:• New Year's Close Reads for BIG KIDS• Martin Luther King Jr. Informational Text Task Cards• Martin Luther King
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4th - 7th
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Martin Luther King Jr Day Readers Theater
Enjoy and learn with this Reader's Theater script for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Informative Theater unit includes:1 two-page script in black and white with 5 Character Cards1 two-page script in color with 5 Character Cards1 informative sheet about the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial1 Martin Luther King, Jr. Facts Activity Page (2 versions)1 Unscramble the Letters Activity Page*****This is included in our Informative Reader’s Theater from January to June.
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Holidays January to June Readers Theater Bundle
Reader's Theater Script: Natural Resources, Conservation, Waste Management
Reading and Science Integration: USE AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES “TRASH ME NOT”Scripts with Content for Intermediate Readers. FULL PACKThis Readers’ Theater is a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small groups, centers, or teacher table.TRASH ME NOT will be divided into 5 scenes. Each scene will have a reading response activity!For example:Scene1:First: Read and Re Read (Fluency)Next: Making Predictions, Answering & Asking Questions (Comprehen
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3rd - 5th
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The Great Kapok Tree Readers Theater - Cause and Effect
I have included the lesson plan with the readers' theater, so all you have to do it print and enjoy!
I used this Readers’ Theater with my fourth graders. It was a springboard into our BIG IDEA topic of Environments, and it also led to great conversation about cause and effect.
We know that cause and effect is a HUGE concept for students to master, especially in the sciences. The Next Generation Science Standards (“NGSS”) call this a cross cutting concept. This means it, in terms of NGSS, th
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4th - 7th
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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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Letter from a Birmingham Jail reader's theater script
Letter from a Birmingham Jail reader’s theater is a 2 page script for 8 readers that explains the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King’s arrest and subsequent letter, summarizes the content of the letter and provides a peek at subsequent landmark events that came as a result of the civil rights movement.Also included: a rubric, reader's theater version of MLK's I Have a Dream speech, and some Black History visual writing prompts/bulletin board items to promote critical thinking.Check out
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Black History Month bundle (in person and remote)
Life Science Partner Plays about organisms and environments
Stop using boring passages and have some science fun with these nine different partner plays reinforcing scientific concepts of living and nonliving things, interactions between species, ecosystems, food webs, adaptations, inherited traits and more! Fifth grade students love learning science with these reader's theater scripts!These plays are each two pages long, written for two readers in grades 4-5. The resources includes a TEKS alignment included for Fifth Grade Science TEKS. Each play also a
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Fifth Grade Science Partner Plays Bundle - TEKS Aligned!
Martin Luther King Jr. Readers Theater Holiday Script, Reading & Activity Packet
This Martin Luther King Jr. Packet provides enjoyable reading and writing activities which coordinate with a readers theater script! This holiday script teaches key facts in the history of the civil rights movement and the life of Dr. King.This packet includes a 2-page readers theater script and 5 script-related activity sheets, each with its own answer key:* Fill-In the Blanks* Vocabulary Fun* Unscramble* Word Search* 5-Question QuizThis is a great way for students to increase reading and writi
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2nd - 4th
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Earth Science Partner Plays about Earth's surface, weather, and more
Have fun teaching fifth grade science with these eight different partner plays reinforcing scientific concepts of the TEKS including formation of sedimentary rock and fossil fuels, landforms, weather, climate the sun, Earth, and moon, and more! These plays are each two pages long, written for two readers in grades 4-5. They include a TEKS alignment included for Fifth Grade Science TEKS. Each play also has a vocabulary sheet to pre-teach vocabulary and a space for students to sketch the meaning o
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Fifth Grade Science Partner Plays Bundle - TEKS Aligned!
A School Play and Readers’ Theater “The Dream – Martin Luther King, Jr."
Come share a school bus ride to Lakeview Elementary School in Montgomery, Alabama, and follow the children as they participate in an assembly about the life of one or our most famous African-Americans.“The Dream – Martin Luther King, Jr.” is an original play written for use as readers’ theater, as a part of balanced literacy (Read-Aloud, Shared and Performance Reading or Guided Reading), or for an actual play production. In readers’ theater or through one of the balanced literacy approaches to t
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Bundle of 15 Holiday Plays gr. 1-5
Physical Science Partner Plays about matter, energy, force, and motion
Avoid boring passages and engage your fifth graders in TEKS based physical science with these twelve different partner plays! Each play reinforces scientific concepts of properties of matter, forms of energy, the flow of electricity, forces, and more.These plays are each two pages long, written for two readers in fifth grade. There is a TEKS alignment included for Fifth Grade Science TEKS. Each play includes a vocabulary sheet to pre-teach vocabulary and a space for students to sketch the meanin
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Fifth Grade Science Partner Plays Bundle - TEKS Aligned!
Water Cycle Reader's Theatre
Reinforce the concepts of the water cycle through a fun reader's theatre! Join the four water droplets, Quench, HtwoO, Thirst and Aqua on their adventure through the cycle.
Also check out the Water Cycle Reader's Theatre Podcast!
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3rd - 6th
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Rachel Carson: A Reader's Theater Script
WOMEN in SCIENCE: Rachel Carson, a Biography!A Biologist and marine zoologist, Carson’s books shared her love of nature, especially the ocean and its inhabitants. Her book, Silent Spring, sparked concern in how chemical pesticides were harming our environment. Carson helped to start the environmental movement in our country, which led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This Reader's Theater Script could be used as a STEM biography any time of year or especially during
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5th - 9th
Earth Day Play: Give Green a Chance
Earth Day is a day that is set aside to bring awareness to environmental problems and possible solutions. I tend to spend the entire month of April focusing on ecology and Green Living activities. This play can be performed on stage or in a classroom as a Readers’ Theater.
Setting
The Great Outdoors! It takes place on or around Earth Day.
Modifications
One way to modify this script is to double up on tree and kid parts. The flowers and plants can also accommodate multiple kids saying t
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2nd - 5th
I Have a Dream Speech Reader's Theatre: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School
10-page Reader's Theatre Script of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream "speech including a forward. It has been written with 20 parts but can be adjusted. MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech is the perfect opportunity to actively engage your students in a history lesson. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of America's finest orators of all time. Use his speech as a catalyst for students to work on their presentation skills. Included in the packet are two essay prompts with writing pages. Specific inst
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5th - 8th
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Reader's Theater Script: Reading-Science Center, Butterflies And Bees
Reading And Science Integration: The Butterfly And the Bee (Environment/Characteristics)
Reader’s Theater
Scripts with Content for Intermediate Readers
The script will make reference to:
Bees and butterflies characteristics.
Diet
Environment
Adaptations
Enemies
This package includes:
Cover
Introduction
Common Core Standards (Reading, Listening, Science)
8 pg Script Highlighted In Color
8 pg Script B&W (Safe Ink)
Comprehension Questions 1pg
Sentence Stems 2pg
3 B&W characters'
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" Reader's Theatre for High School
10-page Reader's Theatre Script of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream "speech including a forward. It has been written with 20 parts but can be adjusted. MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech is the perfect opportunity to actively engage your students in a history lesson. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of America's finest orators of all time. Use his speech as a catalyst for students to work on their presentation skills. Included in the packet are two essay prompts with writing pages. Specific inst
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9th - 12th
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Martin's Big Dream: The Youth of MLK Readers Theater
Classic reader's theater from the pages of Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine! Martin's Big Dream is based on a true story from Dr. King’s childhood in which neighborhood boys refused to play baseball with him. Dr. King wrote that it was a pivotal moment in his becoming a civil rights leader. It was recently enacted by a branch of the Palace Theatre with support from the local BLM chapter, and it pairs nicely with Doreen Rappaport's book, "Martin's Big Words." It includes parts for ten to twelve
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4th - 7th
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Renewable Energy Sources Readers Theatre Script
This script on RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES involves students in reading and reviewing information about six sources of natural energy that can be continually recycled. The script incorporates humor and contemporary language and references. It’s part of a collection in my book CURRICULUM-BASED READERS THEATRE SCRIPTS: SCIENCE.
This script is written for solo speakers with many parts for ALL so that teachers can use it with a whole class. Reading and rehearsing the script reinforces information and
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5th - 7th
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Gonna Let it Shine: MLK Selma Readers Theater
Students will quickly connect with eight-year-old Sheyann Webb. In “Gonna Let it Shine” she shares her emotional, often frightening childhood experience as Dr. King’s “Smallest Freedom Fighter.” We’re used to hearing about the Civil Rights struggle from the viewpoint of adults, yet here is the true story of a little girl who not only saw it, but was there on the front lines in Selma risking the same dangers as her adult counterparts. Carefully researched, it improves upon an earlier version that
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4th - 8th
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Reader's Theater -- News of Ruby Bridges
This small group reader's theater is for 4 students. The names are girls but could be changed to include boys. This story is about Ruby Bridges told from the perspective of children living during that time. It was written for Black History Month. Most of my students have never heard of the people we study during this month. This is why I place such an emphasis on heroes of this caliber. I tie in their fluency study with history. It makes it both fun and educational. If you want more of these, th
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3rd - 9th
MLK Jr. Reader's Theatre Bundle: "I Have a Dream" & "We Dream a World"
This is a bundle perfect for the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Included in this bundle are two different Reader's Theatre scripts. One is MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech and the other is based on a book written by his granddaughter, "We Dream a World." Provide your students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of Dr. King's speech with this engaging, reading activity. All my students love it when we use a Reader's Theatre script, especially my students who typically struggle.
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3rd - 5th
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