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4th grade english language arts scripts on sale
Christmas Play Script Hilarious Comedy "Christmas Idol" 14 - 23 parts
UPDATED! Includes tips for pandemic-time performances; revised parent letters! This Christmas Play script has been teacher tested and audience approved! Prepare to laugh! It's fun to act in, super fun to direct and hilarious to watch. It's suitable for all ages because of its whimsical flare. Kids love to act in this but teachers would love to act this out for the student body, as well. The script alone is 13 pages; part of a 41 page book that contains Director's Notes, Cast of Characters list w
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Christmas Play Scripts BUNDLE of 4!
Drama Script Abbott and Costello Who's on First - Baseball Card Template
This is an adapted version of the famous Abbott and Costello skit "Who's on First?" Drama Script for students to act out in class. When doing a drama unit or learning about baseball history, students love to perform this skit. Some of the words have been modernized from the original. Includes directions. It's a great way to have students practice speaking and listening skills while having fun. Use it as a humorous addition or introduction to your drama unit to prepare students for performing in
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Drama Unit Resource BUNDLE Print and Digital Easel Activities
Christmas Play Scripts BUNDLE of 3!
REVISED: I have included tips for Covid19 performance situations and revised PARENT LETTERS! These Christmas play scripts are equally hilarious, fun and audience favorites! All have been crowd favorites, student favorites and director favorites! Buying this in a bundle saves money and gives you THREE fun scripts to choose from! All are very versatile in cast size (see specific details in each description) and grade level. Santa is Sick and Couch Potato Santa are best with younger students. Chris
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PreK - 5th
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Summer Break Reader's Theater Scripts 5 FUN Plays Perfect for End of Year
Summer Break Reader's Theater Scripts are perfect for distracted kids ready for a a summer vacation with 5 FUN plays that will get kids reading and laughing. Ignite creativity and foster a love for storytelling with Summer Break reader's theater plays. They feature kid-friendly content that make learning and self-expression a fun experience for elementary students.Included:Five 5 Plays (4 pages each)Each Play Includes 5-7 CharactersIn "The Great Summer Adventure," a group of friends excitedly pl
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2nd - 5th
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Star Wars Reader's Theater: AT-AT Attack! Reading Comprehension
Star Wars Reader's Theater: AT-AT Attack! Reading ComprehensionReader's Theater Script for Star Wars: Escape from Darth Vader, by Michael Siglain (Kindergarten to First Grade)Readers Theater is a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form. Readers read from a "script" and reading parts are divided among the readers. Once you start Reader's Theater in your classroom you and your students will be loving it!!!CONTENTS:* Character Posters* 5 page script ( The script features 25 voices
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: May The Fourth Day Bundle - Star Wars Theme
Solar Eclipse Reader's Theater Scripts 4 Plays Teaching Solar Eclipse
Celebrate and Learn About the Solar Eclipse with Reader's Theater Scripts That Let Kids Teach Kids About the Event.Bring your classroom to life with Reader's Theater - kids practice reading and speaking. It is simply FUN learning.Included 4 Scripts (4-5 pages each, 5-7 parts in each play):Welcome to “The Solar Eclipse Adventure,” where kids will be experiencing a solar eclipse—a rare event where the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, casting a shadow on our planet.Welcome to "Exploring S
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2nd - 5th
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Ultimate Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle SEL, Holidays & More "Kids Teach Kids"
Let Kids Teach Kids with the ULTIMATE Reader's Theater Bundle, which includes SEL Social Emotional Learning Stories, Holidays and More!OVER 50 Products Included:SEL Social Emotional Learning StoriesHeritage & Cultural GroupsGrowing Holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas to be Added)Inventors & CareersBees & MoreBring Your Classroom to Life with Reader's Theater!
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2nd - 5th
Thanksgiving Play - A Joyful Harvest
A short Thanksgiving play or skit that is quick and easy to perform, set on the first Thanksgiving. The script has four characters - a pilgrim boy and girl, and a native American boy and girl. A Joyful Harvest is a fun way to act out the preparations for the first Thanksgiving. Backdrop is forest on one side and grass on the other. The Pilgrim and Indian children talk about the upcoming harvest feast with excitement, play a game of pins, and end up naming the holiday. Based on actual history of
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities Bundle Grades 3 - 6
Reader's Theater Scripts Bad Seed, Good Egg, Smart Cookie, Big Cheese & More!
Bring your classroom to life with a Reader's Theater BUNDLE while teaching lessons through the Bad Seed Series! Make reading and speaking fun with ALL of these fun Reader's Theater plays; Reader's Theater for The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, The Cool Bean, The Smart Cookie, The Couch Potato, The Sour Grape and The Big Cheese. Also included, a creative writing activity, create your own character and write your own story. My students came up with characters like these.The Lazy LettuceThe Sad OnionThe
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2nd - 4th
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Christmas Play Scripts BUNDLE of 4!
These FOUR Christmas play scripts are equally hilarious, fun and audience favorites! All have been crowd favorites, student favorites, and director favorites! All scripts are versatile in cast size (see specific details in each description) and grade level. Santa is Sick and Couch Potato Santa are best with younger students. Device-Free Christmas has a stronger vocabulary best for grades 2-4. Christmas Idol is great for primary and intermediate as it is very whimsical and fun for all ages. These
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PreK - 5th
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Spring Break Reader's Theater Scripts FUN Plays Perfect for Distracted Kids
Spring Break Reader's Theater Scripts are perfect for distracted kids ready for a week off. Five FUN plays that will get kids reading and laughing. Ignite creativity and foster a love for storytelling with Spring Break reader's theater plays. They feature kid-friendly content that make learning and self-expression a fun experience for elementary students.Included:Five 5 Plays (4 pages each)Each Play Includes 4-7 CharactersTwo 3 Half-Sheet Questions Related to Spring Break“Spring Break Escapades”
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2nd - 5th
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Drama - The Emperor's New Clothes Reader's Theater PowerPoint
Drama - The Emperor's New Clothes. This PowerPoint is a fun reader's theater or classroom play based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale that can be performed by students on short notice with limited space and props. Cast of characters, props, and stage directions make it easy and entertaining. Vocabulary can be discussed during a preview. Print the slides out as handouts (Print-Settings-Outline - to print out like a script in black and white) for your students and project the play as it is
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4th - 7th
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Christmas Play Script for Kids A Device-Free Christmas
Don't let Covid19 steal your Christmas drama fun! A Device Free Christmas is an adorable comedy, I include tips to brighten the holidays! Prepare to laugh! It's so much fun and a great learning experience for all! This script is best suited for grades 2-4, but certainly would work with grade 1 with a little vocabulary help. (It's actually very funny done by first graders using larger vocabulary words.) NOTE: I have made slight updates to the parent letters included. Whether done as strictly a vi
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Christmas Play Scripts BUNDLE of 4!
Classroom Mystery for Second and Third Grade
This classroom mystery is a great way for you to end your focus on gripping characters, especially if you have been focusing on the genre of Mysteries. Mysteries allows readers to really think deeply about what they are reading. Mysteries are perfect for close reading. Mysteries focus on story elements,characters overcoming obstacles, inferring, predicting, drawing conclusions, cause and effect and so much more. In fact, using mysteries in the classroom leads to deeper thinking almost by acciden
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2nd - 4th
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Wizard of Oz Play Script, Games, Worksheets and More!
This "Wizard of Oz" play script and unit is perfect for Wizard fans! You get 67 pages of highly engaging learning fun. NOTE: The script alone works great for grades K-4, but the additional worksheets are more challenging (grade range of 2-4). If you want script only, it is also available in my store. This includes Director's Notes, Cast and Costume Suggestions, Parent Letters, Student Script Booklets with personal covers, suggestions for music/stage setting and scene changes, Vocabulary Practice
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2nd - 4th
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Social Emotional Learning Stories Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle 70 SEL Stories
Social Emotional Learning Stories to Teach Life Skills Through Reader's Theater. Let Kids Teach Kids all the life skills they need to learn.Do you call it Readers Theater or Readers Theatre? Either way, it's fun learning!Try Social Emotional Learning Stories of Life Skills Necessary for the Classroom Taught Through Short SEL Focused Readers Theater Plays.Included:Getting AngryElopementTaking a BreakFriendshipEmpathyGrowth MindsetTask Avoidance or Task RefusalRespecting the Property of OthersTest
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2nd - 5th
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Holiday Seasonal Growing Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle; 70 Plays & 15 Holidays
Check out this "Growing" Reader's Theater Holiday & Seasonal Bundle for Elementary Kids. It 3-5 plays per seasonal holiday. Preview each product to see what is included.Seasons and Holidays Included:New Year'sChinese Lunar New YearMartin Luther King, JrValentine's DayLeap YearRead Across AmericaSpring BreakSt. Patrick's DayApril Fools DayCinco de Mayo & Dia de los MuertosSummer BreakBack to SchoolPlus Write Your Own PlayGrowing Bundle - To Be Added:Independence Day - 4th of JulySpooky Ha
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2nd - 5th
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Christmas Holidays Around the World - Sweden - Reader's Theater or Play
The Christmas Coin Reader's Theater or Play Script based on a folk tale from Sweden. Fun part of a Christmas Around the World unit. Five character reading parts. You can divide the class into groups, and they can read or perform it for the class. It can be produced as a skit or a play for a Christmas presentation. Story is about two little Swedish children who try to make an old woman happy by bringing her Yule cakes. The old woman tells them how much she misses her son, who left ten years befo
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
St. Patrick's Day Reader's Theater Scripts 3 Plays Celebrating Irish Traditions
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Reader's Theater highlighting Irish Traditions. Bring your classroom to life with Reader's Theater - kids practice reading and speaking. It is simply FUN learning.Included 3 Scripts (3-4 pages each, 4-7 parts):Reader’s Theater Play 1: The Leprechaun's Secret; the luck of the leprechauns and the spirit of St. Patrick's Day fill your hearts with joy and your days with laughter. Reader’s Theater Play 2: A Leprechaun's Lesson tells about the traditions of St. Patrick
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2nd - 5th
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Readers Theater Scripts Save the Bees on World Bee Day May 20
Reader's Theater 5 Scripts include plays all about SAVING BEES. Bring your classroom to life by practicing reading AND speaking through reader's theater. Kids highlight their parts, practice reading, then read to classmates, while teaching about different careers. Each career will inspire kids to look into the future. Scripts include 4 pages each with 5-8 parts:In Buzzing Heroes, friends have new knowledge about the importance of bees, Friends embark on a mission to protect these buzzing heroes.
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2nd - 5th
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Save Our Earth Bundle; Earth Day Reader's Theater, Task Cards, Creative Writing
Save Our Earth Bundle includes Reader's Theater, Task Cards and Creative Writing Perfect for Earth Day, Arbor Day or Any Day!Includes:Earth Day Reader's Theater (5 Scripts)Arbor Day Reader's Theater (4 Scripts)Design a Dream Treehouse & Write About It Creative Writing ActivityTrees & Plants Scavenger Hunt Scoot Cards & Recording SheetStuck - Write Your Own Story - What will get stuck in your tree?Bring your classroom to life with fun learning!
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2nd - 5th
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Read Across America Reader's Theater Scripts 4 Plays Celebrating Love of Reading
Celebrate Read Across America with Reader's Theater highlighting reading across the nation, exploring genre's and more!Bring your classroom to life with Reader's Theater - kids practice reading and speaking. It is simply FUN learning.Included 4 Scripts (3-4 pages, 4-7 parts):In “A Literary Adventure,” students celebrate the joy of reading on Read Across America Day with a special visit from Dr. Seuss.In “Reading Rumble,” young students participate in a reading contest to celebrate Read Across Am
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2nd - 5th
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Reader's Theater Dog Man & Cat Kid Creative Writing Write Your Own Dog Man Story
Bring your classroom to life with DOG MAN Reader's Theater plus Write Your Own Dog Man Story Creative Writing Activity!Practice reading with 2 Reader's Theater Plays and let kids get creative to write their own stories! Kids love this activity, reading in a group and making up their own stories! Included:Dog Man the Hero (4 page play with 6 characters)Dog Man with Cat Kid (4 page play with 7 characters)Plus Creative Writing-Write Your OWN Dog Man StoryBrainstorming a CharacterStory MapLined Pag
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2nd - 5th
Leap Year Readers Theater Scripts 3 Plays Celebrating & Teaching About Leap Year
Celebrate Leap Year on February 29th with Reader's Theater Scripts Teaching the Science Behind Leap Year. Why do we have Leap Year? Let kids teach kids through reader's theater scripts that teach why we have Leap Year and the science behind it.Bring your classroom to life with Reader's Theater - kids practice reading and speaking. It is simply FUN learning.Included 3 Scripts (4 pages each, 7 parts in each play):"Time's Extra Day" students learn from Professor Time and Calendar about the signific
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2nd - 5th
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
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