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Common Core RL.6.6 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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Halloween Reader's Theater & Reading Literature Toolkit for Grades 4-8
The Happy Halloween That Almost Wasn't... is a Halloween reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating Halloween themes 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!Your students will love reading about the characters of Parkersburg Elementary School and how their Halloween tra
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Readers Theater Activities Point of View
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Readers Theater Script is great to use to teach POINT OF VIEW (POV), character traits, inferencing, and so many other reading comprehension lessons! All of the activities included center around the original readers theater script, that captures the Wolf's cheeky, ridiculous version of the story. Your students will ask to do this play over and over again!Activities include:1. Readers' Theater script (perfect for small groups)2. Comprehension questions3. Sug
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Bundle Point of View
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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December ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
This collection of December and Christmas ELA activities includes the perfect standards-based resources to engage your students during this festive month. 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 December and the holidays!Included in this ELA Activities Bundle:• Christmas Close Reads for Big Kids• Digital North Pole Job Application• The Show Must Go
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4th - 7th
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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
The Tell-Tale Heart Reader's Theater Toolkit for Middle School
The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe. This reader's theater adaptation of this scary tale will get your students thinking more deeply as they take on the roles of the narrator, old man, and the police officer.Reader’s Theater is one of my favorite tools to utilize in my middle school classroom. While I have listed the grades 6-8 common core standards that this resource covers, Reader’s Theater directly improves fluency and comprehension. In addition, Reader’s Theater allows s
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Scripts for BIG KIDS Collection
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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Read Aloud Plays: Hawthorne's The Birthmark Gothic Reader's Theater
A classic "mad scientist" short story comes to life! Build fluency and meet Common Core Standards with this adaption of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Gothic masterpiece, The Birthmark. It includes comprehension and vocabulary activities and keys. This compelling classroom play was originally published in the Jan. 2013 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, so you can trust it meets a high standard. Whether for reader's theater or stage performance, this six page play has parts for seven actors and is bes
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4th - 9th
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Last Week of School Reading Activities Short Play Readers Theater Scripts Fables
Reader’s Theater Script Bundle - Engage your upper-grade students with this exciting Reader’s Theater Script Bundle, featuring adaptations of seasonal and holiday-themed plays. This collection is perfect for building reading fluency while incorporating elements of literature, vocabulary, and public speaking.✅ What's included: ✅Reader’s Theater Scripts:A Christmas Carol adapted from Charles DickensSt. Patrick’s DaySpringHalloweenSummerCharacter Name Tags:Printable name tags for students to wear
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4th - 7th
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Juneteenth Readers Theater
Perfect for celebrating Juneteenth! Based on actual slave narratives, Freedom for the First Time is historically-accurate, kid-friendly, and comes embedded with discussion prompts and historic photos. It’s the narrative of ten-year old Tyree during the Civil War. Tyree believes whatever her masters say. But when Tyree’s brother, Sweet Walter, arrives with a band of Union soldiers to tell her the war is over, she and her family experience their day of Jubilee, the day they know freedom for the fi
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4th - 8th
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Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
This bundle of text-based reader's theater scripts offers the perfect teaching tools for fluency, reading comprehension, and read aloud activities. Each original script is based on my favorite picture books and read aloud selections.Even though I teach middle school language arts, I still utilize "kid books" throughout the year to reinforce broader concepts and help my students visualize literary elements within texts. My students LOVE reader’s theater scripts because they love to perform. I LO
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4th - 7th
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Chocolate Fever CCSS Reader's Theater and Close Reading Toolkit
Have your students read the novel Chocolate Fever and LOVED it? Here is the perfect tool to enhance their work with the novel. Allow this novel to come to life with the help of this script before your very eyes. Your middle grade, enthusiastic readers won't even realize they are: enhancing fluency, reading comprehension, context clue word work, and writing.This 21-page Chocolate Fever CCSS Reader's Theater Close Reading Fun Pack includes:-9-page, 15-character reader's theater-CLOSE reading di
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3rd - 6th
Saki's The Open Window Reader's Theater Script
The Open Window" by Saki (H.H. Munro) comes with the original text, three comprehension activities, and teacher notes. A great way to introduce students to the classics, or simply use it as a fun compare/contrast literature activity. It tells about a man named Framton Nuttel who comes to the countryside to recover from “a bad case of the nerves.” Too bad he meets young Vera Sappleton, a teenaged trickster, who sends Framton over the edge. It’s highly accessible for young readers because of
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4th - 8th
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Readers Theater Script A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Activities Scrooge
This script is an adaption of the Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol. This play has 16 characters & a ghost chorus. This allows every student to be included in this holiday reader's theater activity. Character name tags are included along with the 13 page script.Practicing reader’s theater scripts is a fun way to build reading fluency in the upper grades! When the scripts play out classic stories this practice becomes interdisciplinary combining reading fluency, vocabulary, literatu
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4th - 7th
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Step-By-Step Reading Group Guides for Volunteers & Tutors Gr. 2-6 CCSS
Got help? Great! Getting the targeted help you need? PRICELESS! This packet includes step-by-step, 1 page guides for meeting with small groups for reading practice with a focus on comprehension in grades 2-6. The guides are written to be used by parent volunteers, tutors, aides or other paraprofessionals. I've left out educational jargon (or explained any that appears) to keep the guides user-friendly. This packet will be a treasured resource and huge time saver for you!
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2nd - 6th
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Betsy Ross: Fact or Fiction? U.S. History Reader's Theater
The history of the flag of the United States is a compelling story, but historians are divided as to the facts. Did Betsy Ross really create the first flag? This play, which was originally published in my book, Read Aloud Plays: Symbols of America, and later reprinted in the January 2002 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine, encourages readers to become history sleuths. It includes the play script, a short reading supplement, a bubble quiz, a comprehension activity built around William Canb
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4th - 7th
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End of Novel Project: Book Trailers - Common Core Aligned
Getting students interested in novels can be daunting if students don't enjoy reading, but this Book Trailer Project for middle school students will have them highly engaged and eager to get through the book so they can complete the activities at the end. This standards-based project will have students taking annotations, breaking down the plot structure, and working diligently on rewriting the novel similar to a summary but much more fun.Why Movie Trailers?Highly EngagingHelps Students Read wit
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: End of Novel Project BUNDLE: Common Core Aligned
Readers Theater Script | An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving | Holiday ELA Activity
A festive and engaging way to teach language art skills during the holidays. Develop students' reading fluency and comprehension with a proven reading strategy. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Readers Theater Script and Activity. Adapted from the short story by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women.The Bassett children have to create a Thanksgiving feast on their own.Includes:Readers Theater ScriptOne-Pager Reading ActivityPlot Structure Graphic Organizer14 Reading Parts - Narrator 1, 2, 3, Mr
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4th - 9th
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Theater Arts Comical Play Script Unit | Abdullahs Gold Middle Eastern Folk Tale
Part of a Bundle This engaging, comical unit and play (30 pages in length) with roles for 20+ students is suitable for students whether Social Studies class studying the country of India, Pakistan or used in a drama class. Students strengthen their reading (fluency), speaking (diction) and listening skills (restating) while learning to work cooperatively. In addition, a teacher could use this unit with students who are distance learning. #DistanceLearningTPTBased on the Hindu folk tale by the
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5th - 6th
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Three Greek Mythology Scripts for Reader's Theater, Short Plays, Drama Bundle
Included with this product are three Greek mythology scripts perfect for reader's theater! Scripts included are: Demeter and PersephoneDaphne and ApolloOrpheus & Eurydice Note taking page & answer key for easy transfer to your classroom. The scripts are light hearted and most appropriate for 5th grade and up! They would be a great addition to any Greek Mythology unit! Please contact me with any questions you may have.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Winter Reader's Theatre Scripts Bundle- Google Docs for Easy Editing Seasonal
Elevate your winter lesson plans with our exclusive "Winter Wonderland Readers Theatre Bundle," a magical collection of carefully curated folktales designed to captivate and inspire elementary students. This versatile bundle, available on Teachers Pay Teachers, combines the warmth of winter stories with the educational benefits of Readers Theatre, creating an engaging literary experience for your classroom.Google Docs for Easy Editing. Can Easily add more Narrators or other characters to fit ind
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2nd - 6th
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Readers Theater Script | Ida's New Year Cake | Holiday Short Story Unit
Holiday short story lesson for "Ida's New Year Cake" Includes Readers Theater Script, Comprehension Questions, Organizers, and Google Self-Grading Form for Google Classroom. Adapted from the short story by L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables.Ida Mitchell and another girl with the same name are stuck in boarding houses over the holidays. An accidental delivery brings joy to both girls. Set in the world of Anne of Green Gables. Includes:Readers Theater ScriptGoogle Form Self-Grading Q
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4th - 9th
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Readers Theater Script | A Christmas Mistake | Holiday ELA Short Story Activity
Readers Theater Script based on "A Christmas Mistake" by L.M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. A festive way to teach language art skills during the holidays. Develop students' reading fluency and comprehension with a proven reading strategy. Visual Note-taking activity allows students to access higher-level thinking skills and creativity. Use for a theater, historical, or classic literature lesson. Fun classroom play. A simple mistake brings resolution between two families. A heartwa
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4th - 9th
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