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Back to School Blues: CCSS Reader's Theater for Grades 4-8

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This is a great resource for my ELL students. Although they are always hesitant getting up and speaking in front of others, this was a fun way to get them up there and speaking.
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Back to School Blues is a reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating back to school 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 19-page CCSS reader's theater resource includes:

• an 8-page, 13-character script

• reader response questions

• context clue word work

• compare and contrast interactive notebook page

• a journal prompt for post-reading reflection

• a summary strategy interactive notebook page

Estimated Lexile Measure is 750.

Utilize this one day or over a period of a week as you enhance essential reading literature skills. Also, this is perfect to utilize with a substitute teacher, as clear directions are provided for immediate implementation.

Summary of this realistic fiction story:

On their first day of class, a police car greets the students at Sharpland Intermediate School. It turns out that a thief made off with a number of learning resources after Meet the Teacher Night. The students are frustrated about missing out on learning, so they come up with a plan to re-purchase the stolen goods.

If you are looking for a high-interest, realistic fiction, common core focused script with vocabulary work, reader response questions, a graphic organizer, and a summary answer key, this is the perfect product for your classroom!

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20 pages
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Teaching Duration
1 Week
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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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