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5th grade problem solving science scripts
Reader's Theater Solar System Science Class Play Fluency Practice Solar System
Looking for a way to fit more into the school day? Save time by incorporating reading and science. This Solar System science play is an original script I wrote for my class as an end of the year performance for parents and students, but it may also be used as a high-interest space introduction or review! It's filled with lots of scientific information about the sun, moons, planets, and other space objects, but even better, it's full of humor and fun! Your 3rd - 6th grade students will LOVE this
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3rd - 6th
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Social Scripts for SEL - 50+ Editable Stories - Emotions, Life Skills, School
Read social scripts to help kids develop skills for dealing with emotions, life skills, friendships, and situations at school. The scripts focus on a variety of topics: brushing teeth, cleaning up after oneself, feeling angry, feeling confused, being a good spot, giving personal space, working with a partner, following directions, and much more.EDITABLENOTE: I have revised these stories to be EDITABLE! The titles and clipart of all stories remain the same, but each story has an editable version
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3rd - 6th
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Puberty for Male Female Social Stories Boys Girls Private Parts Period Autism
Get four puberty with autism social narratives for boys, four puberty with autism social narratives for girls and 1 unisex puberty with autism story. A narrative story set for boys and a story set for girls are both available for single purchase but are bundled here for savings.These social narratives are wonderful to use when presenting a unit on sexuality.Boys face many challenges when going through puberty! Discuss puberty and growing up easily by reading detailed stories that focus on heal
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4th - 8th
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Private Parts Social Story Set Boys Males Puberty Autism Hands Out of Pants SPED
Boys face many challenges when going through puberty especially those with autism in adolescence! Use 5 unique social stories to discuss puberty and growing up easily by reading detailed social narratives that focus on health, sexuality, and social situations. This Boys in Puberty set includes 8 ½” * 11” books including ♦ Being Discreet (concealing an erection in public) (19 pages)♦ Private Parts (masturbating) (14 pages)♦ Wet Dream (15 pages)♦ Clothes On (12 pages)♦ Hands on Top of Clothes (
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4th - 8th
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The Rock Cycle Reader's Theater
A fun way to act out the rock cycle! This reader's theater contains 20 speaking parts that explain the process that a rock goes through in the rock cycle. Students will not only be able to define sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks but they will also learn science vocabulary such as weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation, sediment, intrusive, extrusive, mantle, magma, and lava. Each word is defined in the script. Students will also review examples of each type of rock i
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3rd - 6th
Private Parts Social Story Girl Puberty Autism Period Keep Clothes On
Being a girl is hard and going through puberty with autism is even more challenging! Use 5 unique social stories to discuss puberty and growing up easily by reading detailed social narratives that focus on health, sexuality, and social situations. This set includes 8 ½” * 11” books for Girls in Puberty♥ Wearing a bra (12 pages)♥ Private Parts (masturbating) (12 pages)♥ How to Change Your Pad (14 pages)♥ Clothes On (12 pages)♥ Hands on Top of Clothes (11 pages)These social narratives are wonder
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4th - 12th
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Rocks and Minerals Reader's Theater Science Class Play Fluency Practice Erosion
Looking for a way to save time by incorporating reading and science? How about adding fluency practice for the whole class? This "I Wanna Be a Rock Star" Play is all about rocks and minerals. It is an original science script I wrote for my class as an end of the year performance for parents and students, but it may also be used as a great activity to reinforce a rocks and minerals science unit. The play is filled with lots of scientific information about rocks and minerals, including sedimentary
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3rd - 6th
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Reader's Theater Weather Class Play - Weather Science Activity Fluency Practice
Save time by incorporating reading and science! This Weather Play is an original science script I wrote for my class as an end of the year performance for parents and students, but it may also be used as part of a weather unit in science. Not only does it contain excellent scientific information about the water cycle, and weather phenomena like rain, snow, hail, thunder, lightning, and cloud types, but it's also funny and is one your students will love!Specifically, it includes:15 page Original
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3rd - 6th
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Earth's Rotation and Revolution Reader's Theater
This script allows students to perform and act out the rotation and revolution of Earth. The reader's theater explains the day and night cycle, the difference between rotate and revolve, and the causes of the seasons.
Some ideas are to have your students form small groups to perform for other students. Have them create props, a background, add silly voices... anything to help them comprehend! Kids love acting!
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3rd - 6th
Reader's Theater for Oral Reading Fluency Practice 6 Science Themed Class Plays
Looking for a way to save time by incorporating reading and science? Want to give your students meaningful and fun fluency practice? This Reader's Theater Science Bundle can help you accomplish all those goals! It includes six original plays: I Wanna Be a Rock Star (Rocks and Minerals), Weather, the Solar System, Adaptations Around the World, Dude, Where's My Rock (weathering, erosion, and deposition), and Force and Motion at the Amusement Park (introductory physics).Each script has enough parts
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3rd - 6th
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Social Scripts for Emotions - Editable Stories & Narratives
Read these Social Scripts to help students understand and develop coping strategies for managing emotions. Emotions targeted include feeling: angry, sad, excited, nervous, overwhelmed, confused, bored, hungry/thirsty, sick, grumpy, and scared. There are a total of 11 stories. The first 11 include images of a boy while the second set include images of a girl. A cover page is also included, so that your students can decorate their own social scripts binders.EDITABLENOTE: I have revised these sto
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3rd - 6th
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The Water Cycle Reader's Theater
This reader's theater allows students to act out and perform the water cycle! Includes 14 speaking parts with vocabulary words such as evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, groundwater, and runoff.
Some ideas are to have your students form small groups to perform for other students. Have them create props, a background, add silly voices... anything to help them comprehend! Kids love acting!
Check out my Science Reader's Theater Bundle and other Science Reader's Theaters:
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3rd - 6th
Reader's Theater Science Bundle Rocks & Minerals, Solar System, & Weather Play
Looking for a way to incorporate reading and science? How about adding fluency practice for the whole class? This Reader's Theater Science Bundle includes three original plays: I Wanna Be a Rock Star (Rocks and Minerals), Weather, and the Solar System. Each script has enough parts (30) for the whole class and is great to use as part of a science unit, for fluency practice, or to add variety to your reading program. The best part about these plays is that besides being full of scientific informat
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3rd - 6th
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Mindfulness: Scripts for Teachers BUNDLE
This resource is intended for teachers who want to introduce mindfulness into their classroom, but are not quite sure where to start. This Bundle contains 5 weeks worth of scripts (25 in total). SAVE 25% by purchasing as a bundle (one and a half weeks are free!)To buy scripts individually, click here:Week One: Mindful ListeningWeek Two: Mindful BreathingWeek Three: Mindful VisualizationsWeek Four: Dealing Mindfully with AngerWeek Five: Dealing Mindfully with WorriesIn addition to the scripts thi
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K - 5th
Animal Classification Readers Theatre
Looking for an interesting way to teach basic animal classification? This folder contains readers theatre scripts for teaching about the five groups of vertebrates--reptiles, amphibians, fish, mammals, and birds. Each script is two pages and includes parts for 4-5 students. All together, you will have parts for 23 students. The scripts are--well, a little silly! In Molly's Mammals, a pet shop owner who wants to sell only mammals deals with customers who want other kinds of pets. Other scripts in
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3rd - 5th
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Social Scripts for Friendships - Editable Stories & Narratives
These Social Scripts or stories can help your students develop skills for playing and spending time with friends. The scripts focus on sharing, giving others your attention, playing with others, keeping hands/feet to self, maintaining personal space, and other skills critical for social success. A cover page is also included, so that your students can decorate their own social scripts binders.EDITABLENOTE: I have revised these stories to be EDITABLE! The titles and clipart of all stories remain
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3rd - 6th
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Social Skills Scripts and Narratives - Editable Stories for Elementary Kids
This includes 16 printable social scripts for children with social difficulties in the elementary setting. Topics include asking for help, recess, paying attention, working with partners, morning work, and more. These can be used for grades 2-6. These can be implemented by the classroom teacher, special education teacher, paraprofessional, or other support professional.How to UseSocial scripts are a great way for children to learn routines and how to handle specific situations. They are particul
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Social Skills Activities & Lessons MEGA Bundle
Animal Adaptations Reader's Theater
This reader's theater provides a fun way to dive into animal adaptations! The story analyzes the difference between structural and behavioral adaptations and how these help animals to survive. Many animal examples are provided as well as an explanation of inherited traits and learned behaviors. Students will see how without adapting, animals will go extinct.
Science vocabulary defined and discussed in this reader's theater include: extinction, structural adaptation, behavioral adaptation, insti
Science Reader's Theater Bundle
This bundle includes SEVEN science based reader's theaters to connect reading, science, and drama! Included readings are "The Cause of Autumn," "Animal Adaptations," "Energy Pyramids and Food Chains," "The Water Cycle," "The Rock Cycle," "Earth's Rotation and Revolution," and "Renewable vs Nonrenewable Resources." This 40 page product allows students to have fun while learning science and practicing reading skills. Some ideas are to have your students form small groups to perform for other stude
Readers Theater scripts: African American scientists & inventors
Nine African-American scientists/inventors (Benjamin Banneker, Mae Jemison, Patricia Bath, George Washington Carver, Dr. Mary Chinn, Lewis Latimer, Yvonne Cagle and Elijah McCoy, Patricia Bath) are featured in this collection of reader's theaters. They may be used in language arts, science or history class, adapted for a school wide program or even memorized and done, royalty free, as a stage play or video.Each interview is self-contained so students can be divided into groups to read and rehea
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Black History Month bundle (in person and remote)
Scripts: Space science reader's theaters (3 scripts, 13 writing prompts)
Space science package 1 includes 3 scripts and 13 writing prompts. This is part of the Earth and space science bundle.
Reader’s theater is an excellent way to teach science content while improving fluency, comprehension and giving students an opportunity to shine. While providing authentic reasons to read and reread, students can analyze characters, plots and other story elements in an interdisciplinary study of these topics.
President of the Solar System club -If the sun resigned, who woul
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4th - 8th
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Solar System & Planets Reader's Theater
This product includes a reader's theater script called "The Planets' First Day of School." It includes a script for 9 roles (the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). I have also included necklaces to identify the roles. There is a brief worksheet for students to write down what they learned about the planets and the sun. I have used this in my class, and my students loved it! I mounted the cover sheet and scripts to file folders for each reader. I laminat
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2nd - 5th
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Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources Reader's Theater and Debate
This product includes several activities to help your students gain understanding about the different between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
The reader's theater is a fun way to bring science, reading, and drama together. Students will learn the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources and how they power our homes and schools. Students will also hear the benefits and downsides to both resources, learn about alternative energy, and discover ways to conserve energy.
This p
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4th - 6th
Circulatory System Reader's Theatre
Heart, blood vessels, blood cells, spleen, and platelets oh my! Are you studying the circulatory system and need a quick review? Have your students practice this reader's theatre. Packed with 11 characters including a funny virus and a white blood cell who hopes to gobble up every germ in their path, this reader's theatre will help your students become more fluent readers and learn about this important body system at the same time.
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3rd - 8th
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