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Middle school Winter ELA test prep scripts
The Snowball Toss Reader's Theater Script and Activities for Grades 4-7
The Snowball Toss is a winter reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating winter themes into your language arts instruction.This 5-page, 11 character, high-interest realistic fiction passage is about a snowy recess in which the assistant principal's silly action leads to a student getting carried away and injuring another. The lesson students will take away is that "rules are made for a reason," and we as adults need to be rem
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts 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:Â Reader's Theater Scripts for BIG KIDS Collection
READERS THEATER WINTER MYSTERY WHOLE CLASS SCRIPT grade 5 6 7 8
This grades 5-8 Readers’ Theater whole class brain teaser mystery script activity will give your ELA and drama students practice in reading aloud, comprehension and writing, while having lots of winter fun. Your students will be 'whodunnit' detectives, performing inference tasks to solve clues. Question sheets and answer keys are included.WHOLE CLASS READERS THEATER SCRIPTS This 10 page script is designed for TWENTY SIX readers! This keeps all of the students together in one place and fosters cl
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â 50% OFF READERS' THEATER SCRIPTS HOLIDAYS and SEASONS BUNDLE - 10 scripts
7th Grade STAAR Reading Review: Drama
This resource was designed for use as a review for drama questions on the 7th grade STAAR Reading test. Other STAAR resources can be found in my store, BrainyCats Learning Store
BEFORE PURCHASING THIS PRODUCT, PLEASE DOWNLOAD AND READ THROUGH THE GUIDED PRACTICE SCENE TO MAKE SURE IT IS SUITABLE FOR YOUR CLASS. My students enjoyed it, but it is about a food contest where competitors try to make disgusting combinations of food, so the topic may be off-putting to some groups. The sample can
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6th - 8th
Winter Groundhog Day Readers Theater Script & Literacy Activities, Grade 3 4 5 6
Groundhog Day Readers' Theater Script & Literacy Toolkit: "Groundhog Day with Mr. Loony": When Mr. Loony brings a bag of grass seed, a tub of Crisco, and an exceptionally large pig into his classroom, it's bound to be a Groundhog Day to remember.This 27-page readers' theater literacy toolkit provides a terrific winter readers' theater script and literacy activities for Groundhog Day or anytime! It includes the following:>"Groundhog Day with Mr. Loony": 6-page script for 6-9 readers>Sou
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3rd - 6th
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February ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
This collection of February and Valentine's Day ELA activities features 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 February and Valentine's Day!Included in this ELA Activities Bundle:• February Close Reads for BIG KIDS• Valentine's Day Reader's Theater and Reading
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4th - 7th
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WINTER ELA BRAIN TEASER ACTIVITIES - grade 5 6 7 8 fun winter lessons
Banish the winter blahs with these no-prep, high interest 30% off winter-themed brain teaser activities! The activities are perfect as brain breaks, for morning work, do-nows, or for fast finishers. The comprehension mysteries stretch students' reading strategies, while still having fun. None of the resources refer to Christmas. They are inclusive, and can be used throughout the winter season. January fun? Sorted! February fun? Ditto! At $4.30 off, it's even fun for your wallet. You get the wint
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5th - 8th
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Musical, "This is not a Musical, No!"
Dress up your winter music program with this skit, written by Rhonda Johanson. It will flow directly into your winter music selections and easily create a musical without all the work. "This is not a Musical, No!" is about a student wishing to read, "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to the audience. He runs into trouble with the choir and the music director when he begins to read the story. Through much excitement and interruption, he continues to read the story. This skit is easily adaptab
The Runaway Sugar Cookies: A Winter's Reader's Theater
What happens when cookies decide they don't want to be dessert? Total Cookie Chaos.This wacky winter adventure will have your kids cracking up, acting out, and most importantly enjoying reading! Whether you perform it for parents or just for your classroom this script will have your kids reading and laughing!What's included:Page 1 Cover Page and a Note from the SellerPages 2-8 Version #1 of the script with 19 partsPages 9-15 Version #2 of the script where you can fill in narrator parts to create
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3rd - 6th
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READERS' THEATER WINTER MYSTERY SCRIPTS - Fun winter drama & ELA whodunnits
This trio of winter mystery readers' theater scripts is a 30% off fun drama and ELA bargain! Keep your grades 5-8 students engaged in winter lessons with 'whodunnit' script activities that practice their reading, fluency and comprehension skills, AND activate their critical thinking skills to hunt for context clues to some perplexing mysteries. All the scripts are set in winter, yet there is LOTS of variety in this bundle. For example, two scripts are for the whole class (26 roles), and one is i
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5th - 8th
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State Test Prep Skit
A fun and lighthearted skit or play with fairy tale characters preparing to take a State Test. Is primarily for Test Taking strategies and skills in a way that is fun and interesting to the kids. This skit could also be performed by a drama department. Possibly at a testing assembly.
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5th - 12th
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CHRISTMAS DRAMA MIDDLE SCHOOL FUN
This exciting 30% off Christmas and Winter drama activities bundle for grades 5-8 has everything you need to make the days leading up to the winter break fun and memorable for your Middle School drama students. And with $4 off, what's not to love? READERS' THEATER CHRISTMAS SCRIPT: CHILLY THE SNOWMANThis fun winter Readers’ Theater Script introduces Middle School students to the TRUE tale of a much loved Christmas character. A lot of fake news surrounds the legend of Frosty the Snowman - includi
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5th - 8th
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And Now Back to You... A Short Christmas Comedy
This short play has been previously produced with 4th-6th graders, but will easily work for actors up through 8th grade.
"And Now Back to You..." by Debra Schultz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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4th - 6th
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"Elf Finals" - A Holiday Skit for Middle Years Adaptable for other grades-Funny!
Struggling to find something for your middle schoolers to do at the Winter Concert? This skit it adaptable for many grades, but I created this with my grade 8 class in mind! It uses slang terms with just the right amount of cheese factor that students will buy in! Feel free to adjust to use phrases that are popular in your class. These were just a few my students use regularly. Parts can be adaptable as you see fit and to create more or less speaking parts for students. I did not include the T
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4th - 12th
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Genre Theatre (Genre Review With Readers Theater)
This presentation offers eight mini readers theater scripts covering different genres of fiction that will provide students with an opportunity to check their understanding of the concept. The students will be able to select the correct genre from a list of six choices after reading each script. An "answer key" is built into the presentation to provide immediate feedback. Please note that due to space requirements, fantasy and fairytale have been combined as an answer choice.
The readers the
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4th - 8th
CHRISTMAS AND WINTER READERS THEATER + DRAMA CIRCLES
This high-interest 30% off Christmas and Winter Readers' Theater and Drama circle activities bundle for grades 4-7 is crammed with seasonal drama happiness. Two readers' theater scripts and two drama circles = optimum fun for your students, with no marking or prep for you. Two of the resources are mysteries. Your students will be seasonal detectives, using context clues to hunt for the solutions to the mysteries. Call the $4.50 off an early Christmas gift! Santa would DEFINITELY approve. READER
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4th - 7th
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A SNOWMAN'S CHRISTMAS, a Readers' Theater interview play, grades 4, 5, 6
(Cast: 8; Actors: grades 4 +; all roles, male/female (includes SFX Artists); Audience: grades 3 to 6)A new, happy holiday play, with SFX and singing voice-overs. Setting: a snowy front yard. Time: early Christmas eve. Lesson plan: 5 pages; Script: 10 pages. Run time: 15 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 83 A radio reporter sets out to interview Frosty, but talks with the wrong snowman.The result: a story that will amuse you, then intrigue you. A joyous ending will make your Christmas spirit soar.
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4th - 6th
Also included in:Â READERS THEATER INTERVIEW PLAYS, HOLIDAY BUNDLE C, for Middle School
Figurative Language Reader's Theater Script
This reader's theater script is about a soccer game at a Clarksville Middle. It is six pages long. However, the document you will be purchasing is 18 pages long, as it contains:
-An original version
-A scaffolded version
-A teacher's key
You can use this interactive reader's theater script to review the following Figurative Language terms:
1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Hyperbole
4. Onomatopoeia
5. Alliteration
This activity asks students to read the script aloud and fill-in the figurative language
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4th - 8th
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Poetry Writing - Choral Reading, Oral Interpretation, Drama Creative Writing Sub
Poetry Writing! Performance Poems are FUN! Performance Poems will get students out of their seats and speaking before the class. Performance poems will engage all students. Performance Poems may include groups of two to six students.Students will watch youtube examples and will participate in reading poems written in my English 10 class from a powerpoint presentation. The poems are color coded so that each speaker in the presentation knows what lines to read alone and what lines to read together
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6th - 12th
The Snowy Day Reader's Theater
This reader's theater is based on the book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats There are 4 roles in the script.
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1st - 6th
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Character Trait Text Evidence -- Court Case
Read a court case to determine which student is guilty of being insensitive.
Students will read a court case to the class, and the class will have to reach a verdict from the evidence that is presented -- Which student is insensitive? This is a fun way to have students find evidence to support their answer.
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1.) A script (3.5 pages) & a highlighted script for each role.
2.) Name tags for students (judge, sheriff, student 1, student 2, witness 1, witness 2)
3.) A worksheet f
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3rd - 6th
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Readers Theater Partner Play Winter MYSTERY - reading fluency activity
This fun winter partner play mystery will build your students’ reading fluency and comprehension skills. This type of Readers' Theater script- partner play scripts - ensures that both students get a LOT of reading action. There's no waiting to read- each student reads aloud every second part! Their fluency, tone, and expression will thrive, as Science of Reading research has shown. Solving TWO winter mysteries will give their critical thinking skills a work-out! Team work and classroom community
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3rd - 6th
Reader's Theater: The Snow Queen
Reader's Theater: The Snow Queen
Enjoy this abridged version of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale! Have your students practice their fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension with this beloved story about a little girl's bravery and determination to find her lost friend. This script is also helpful when comparing 'The Snow Queen' to Disney's 'Frozen.'
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Reader's Theater: The Flying Lion
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3rd - 7th
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THE GROUNDHOG DAY GRUMP, A Readers' Theater Interview play, for Middle School
(Cast: 7; Actors: grades 5 +; all roles, male/female (includes SFX Artists); Audience: grades 5 to 8 An oddball comedy, with SFX and voice-overs. Setting: edge of a farmer’s field. Time: near noon, on Groundhog Day.Lesson plan: 5 pages; Script: 8 pages. Run time: 14 minutes. Flesch Reading Ease = 88 How would you react if someone awakened you from a deep sleep? What if thesomeones numbered in the dozens? The hundreds? And clamored for your attention? Learn how one grumpy groundhog deals with d
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