Readers Theater There Was an Old Lady and Magic School Bus Going Batty

Readers Theater - There Was an Old Lady and Magic School Bus Going Batty themed scripts are a great way to strengthen your students fluency skills while adding seasonal fun at the same time. Encourage your students to become better readers and writers with this Reader's Theater and more packet based on the books Magic School Bus: Going Batty and There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat.

This experience will improve students' reading comprehension, fluency, and writing skills. Students love to perform Readers' Theater plays. Now, let your students write their own Readers' Theater script using the template included in this packet. There are also ideas and printables for props for the performance.

Included are:

Pg. 2 Overview

Pg. 3 Common Core Standards

Pg. 4, 5 Performance tips

Pg. 6-9 Stage props

Pg. 10 Starring sign

Pg. 11-13 Act 1- 5, plus generic sign

Pg. 14-23 Magic School Bus script (13 parts)

Pg. 24-26 Name necklaces

Pg. 27 Stick puppet frames

Pg. 28 Teacher tips

Pg. 29 - 31 Extension activity: (Beginning, Middle End) Tell Me More Book

Pg. 32-35 There Was an Old Lady script (7 parts + narrator/chorus)

Pg. 36-38 Name necklaces

Pg. 39-41 Stick puppet frames

Pg. 42 Extension activity: interactive journal printable - characters

Pg. 43 Extension activity: interactive journal printable - dictionary skills

Pg. 44 Teacher tips

Pg. 4-48 Writing your own Reader's Theater script template

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