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Middle school english language arts scripts for Microsoft PowerPoint
Bundle: Shakespeare readers theater
Save time and get 50% off individual pricing with this Shakespeare reader’s theater bundle. It contains 7 reader’s theater scripts, 2 role play activities, bingo game, lesson plans, Power Points, rubrics, extension activities and instructions on how to use the resources within.
Reader’s theater gives students an authentic reason to read and repeated readings with intonation and expression further deepens understanding of characterization and forces that influences people and plots. Using m
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8th - 12th
Humorous and Ironic No Prep Reader’s Theater Play: The Cop and the Anthem
Do you need a laugh? Do your students need one, too? This fun and engaging resource was designed to entertain students as they learn. The 28-slide PowerPoint resource is a fun-filled reader’s theater version of O. Henry’s short story “The Cop and the Anthem” created for Grades 7-12. The reader’s theater play is quite humorous and contains numerous examples of irony. Colorful slides, or setting backdrops, enhance the fun as students read and/or act out each scene. The story contains themes of
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7th - 12th
The California Gold Rush And You
With only a few pages in the text book devoted to the California Gold Rush, you know your students aren’t getting a real feel for this exciting time in U.S. history. This interactive unit — The California Gold Rush and You — has 40 pages of information and illustrations. The unit includes a slide show with 27 slides and a 10-page script with more than 100 bulleted points. Five interactive slides spaced throughout the presentation will ask your students to take notes about • the journey alon
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4th - 8th
Readers theater script: Beowulf (+ PPT, rubrics, more)
Beowulf was meant to be heard, not just read and this 8 scene reader’s theater is a easy, effective way to introduce or culminate a unit or differentiate instruction. Has parts for 13 characters.
Kevin Crossley-Holland, a renowned Beowulf translator, stated that an epic "should be read out loud-an epic in the oral tradition is never going to sit very easily on the printed page"
This package contains also contains lesson ideas, how to do a reader’s theater (for first timers), a rubric, handou
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8th - 12th
The Pony Express And You
How much space does your textbook devote to The Pony Express - maybe a couple of paragraphs? This exciting time in U.S. history deserves better than that, and with “The Pony Express And You,” your students will readily identify with the young men who rode for the service and the dangers they faced. The 26-page slide show I’ve created is full of colorful illustrations (more than 100 pictures) and offers students four opportunities to write a journal entry as though they were a rider on The Pony
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4th - 8th
A Christmas Truce PowerPoint Reader's Theater
A Christmas Truce PowerPoint Reader's Theater. 44 slides. Use this in the classroom or make it into a full production for Christmas. All about the spontaneous truce in the trenches during WWI where the British and German soldiers stopped fighting. Listen to the song "Christmas in the Trenches" as an introduction. Connect to Snoopy and the Red Baron's Christmas Truce. Play slides while students are reading printed cards as a production for parents or visitors. (We performed this for parents and i
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Best-Seller Bundle: Top 10 for Drama Teachers
A Drama bundle loaded with my Top 10 current Best Sellers, which all come with detailed powerpoints and supporting resources - they are ready to go, with no planning needed:Silent MoviesDarkwood Manor (Haunted House)Characterization and ImprovisationMatildaCommedia D’el ArteGreek TheatreA Christmas Carol (adapted script)Little Red Riding Hood (short script)Twelfth Night (adapted script)Christmas monologues
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2nd - 12th
Readers theater package - Othello
The Othello package contains a 17 page readers theater script of all 5 acts of Shakespeare’s Othello as well as a 66 slide Power Point with before, during and after reading activities, prompts and projects. Art work based on the play offer visuals to help activate background knowledge, learn new material and assist students in retaining what they learn. (PDF and Power Point are included in Zip folder)Also available:Who killed Will Shakespeare? mystery activityHamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbet
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7th - 11th
Reader's Theater for "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
This power-point document contains a reader's theater script for the sweet story, "The Giving Tree" by Shel SilversteinSummary: Since it was first published fifty years ago, Shel Silverstein's poignant picture book for readers of all ages has offered a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.There are 20 different narrators in the script, including a special 'Boy" and "Tree" part. But this could easily be adapted to fit a la
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2nd - 7th
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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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Journey to Bethlehem: The Historical Journey
If your school allows you to focus on the religious aspects of Christmas, here is a great slide show for you. “Journey to Bethlehem: The Historical Journey” tells how Joseph and Mary made their way from Nazareth to Bethlehem. Along the way, your students will learn about:their home in Nazareththe census that necessitated their journeythe route they tookthe landscapes they would have walked throughwhether they walked or rode a donkey or used a cartthe dangers and the hardships they would have enc
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
Distance Learning using Zoom for Reader's Theater: The 3 Branches of Government
What is a DIGITAL Reader’s Theater?Use Google Drive to access my Reader’s Theater script on the Branches of Government and share it with your class for a virtual performance! I created this play to help students review the three branches of Government in a fun, interactive, and creative way! This is a perfect blend of Language Arts and Social Studies since students will learn key social studies content while practicing reading fluency and expression. The script is designed to be “shared” as a
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3rd - 6th
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Readers theater scripts - 4 Weather scripts, rubric & Power Point
With much to cover and limited time, these 4 weather reader’s theater scripts (plus Power Point and activities) help students cover language arts and science concepts together. A rubric (editable WORD document) is included so you can customize it to your class.
Up, Up and Away covers air pressure, layers of the atmosphere and ocean breezes in the context of a hot air balloon ride. FK reading level: 4.4
Christmas Vacation discusses the ocean’s effect on climate. FK reading level: 4.9
The Cloud
PLAY-SCRIPT WRITING : PRESENTATION
A lesson presentation that presents teaching and learning resources on play-script writing.After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:Understand the conventions of a play script to use them in writing.Develop dialogues for a play script that exposes characters and situation.Demonstrate the knowledge of play script using the techniques of dialogue writing.This Resource includes:Vocabulary Overview - Play-scriptReal Life Application and Cross-Curriculum LinksFlipped Lesson Part - V
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6th - 8th
Also included in: WRITING PRESENTATIONS BUNDLE
READERS THEATER SCRIPT WRITING PROJECT Grades 5-8
This colorful, detailed PowerPoint and PDF explains, step-by-step, the process of writing a 4-6 page readers' theater script for students to read aloud in small groups. LOTS of examples from 3 readers' theater scripts demonstrate techniques of plot, character development and dialogue. Teacher rubrics are included.This writing assignment will take about two hours to write and proof-read. It will take a few hours for students to rehearse with their readers because students will be readers in more
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5th - 8th
Also included in: READERS' THEATER UNIT: READING & SCRIPT WRITING grades 5 6 7 8
Hearts and Hands by O. Henry: Reading and Writing Standards-Based Activities
This 43-slide PowerPoint resource contains a fun and engaging reader’s theater of O. Henry’s short story “Hearts and Hands." The activities contained in this resource were designed to be used either as a PowerPoint or as printables in a literacy center or whole group setting. The materials, ideas, and activities were designed to accommodate different learning styles and can be easily used to differentiate learning. The activities require students to analyze, evaluate, apply, synthesize, compa
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7th - 12th
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Readers theater package - King Lear
The King Lear package contains a 20 page readers theater script of all 5 acts of Shakespeare’s King Lear as well as a 33 slide graphics intensive Power Point. Writing prompts, graphic organizers and art work based on the play offer visuals to help activate background knowledge, learn new material and assist students in retaining what they learn. (.PDF and Power Point are included in Zip folder as well as directions for using reader's theater in the classroom)Part of the Shakespeare readers the
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Bundle: Shakespeare's Lear
ExC-ELL Aligned Vocabulary Introduction & Word Wall: Force, Motion, and Energy
Highly effective for emerging Bilingual/Multilingual students (truly, all students). Introduce the vocabulary essential to engaging with the content. These slides give you all of the resources to align your introduction with the ExC-ELL routine including:- the word hyperlinked to a dictionary definition, - the word in context, - a relevant photograph, - and sentence starters and frames for oral discoursePrint the word word wall pages to make the words visible for students to support their disco
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2nd - 6th
Real Comics {Fill - in - the - Speech - Bubble}
Kids love cartoons! One fun way to get them thinking about adding dialogue in their writing is to provide a format that inspires creative thought. Let your students' imaginations grow using real single pane comics with empty speech bubbles. This unit consists of 100 single pane comics that can be used in a number of ways.
Aside from inspiring higher level thinking skills, the activities can be used to teach the proper use of capitalization and punctuation in sentence form.
Please look at the
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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 Erie Canal and You
The Erie Canal was an exciting and pivotal time in U.S. history. But most textbooks only devote a couple of pages to it, so your students are not getting a real feel for the men who built and worked along the canal. This unit — “The Erie Canal and You” — has 65 pages of information and illustrations including five challenges for your students to write journal entries as though they were workers on the Erie Canal. The unit includes a slide show with 44 slides and a 17-page script with 170 bul
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4th - 8th
La Familia: Realidades 5A vocabulary and grammar in context with a story
Use this visual and engaging story to teach your students family vocabulary and to review and recycle ir + a+ infinitive.
May use this story as a TPRS lesson or just as a story to review or introduce vocabulary
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1st - 12th
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
Fairy Tale And Monologues Part 2
Are you ready to unleash the creativity of your students? If so, you’ve found a great activity!Welcome to an enchanting world of drama activities designed to captivate and inspire your middle school or high school students! This engaging bundle features ten thought-provoking scenarios rooted in classic fairy tales, encouraging students to explore themes of identity, decision-making, and self-discovery. From Cinderella's modern twist to Snow White navigating the realms of social media, each scena
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6th - 10th
Also included in: Fairy Tales And Monologues Bundle
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