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Middle school Earth Day writing-essays scripts
Earth Day Reader's Theater and Informational Text Toolkit for Grades 4-8
Looking for Earth Day reading and writing activities for your middle school students? This reader's theater script is the perfect way to combine reading, writing, and fluency while raising awareness about our environment!Project Butterfly is an Earth Day reader's theater script your middle school students will love! 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!• 6-page, 12-charac
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
Spanish Por and Para Reading: El medio ambiente: The Environment / Earth Day
This 5-page file includes:~A dialog between two brothers, one of which is trying to get the other to be more environmentally friendly! In addition to a lot of environmental vocabulary, the reading features multiple uses of por and para. Reading includes a glossary of new vocabulary.~The same reading but with blanks where por and para should be. Students need to fill in the prepositions to complete the reading.~A worksheet with 8 reading comprehension questions in Spanish as well as a short writi
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Earth Day Reading Activities: Readers' Theater Script, Vocab +: Grade 3, 4, 5, 6
Earth Day Activities ~ Poetry & Readers' Theater - Earth Day Readers' Theater Script & Activities: "Twas the Night before Earth Day": Get students thinking about Earth Day with some fun fluency practice. This 25-page toolkit of Earth Day activities makes a terrific reading activity to celebrate Earth Day and get students thinking about ways they can help the environment. It also comes with access to a ready-to-use 9-page TpT Digital Activity that students can complete digitally in litera
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3rd - 6th
Response to Literature Common Core Kid Friendly Writing Kit Bundle
Common Core Standards inspire and require teachers to move our students toward a focus on thinking and taking ownership of their own learning. The Kid Friendly graphic organizers, rubrics, student score sheets, 3 and 5 paragraph exemplary essays, and peer edit checklists in this kit support students as they learn to do just that, preparing them for career and college readiness in the 21st Century!
Writing is challenging to teach and time consuming to grade. The pages in this kit ensure that yo
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4th - 6th
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Earth Day, ShoutBack! Readers' Theater, Bundle 9: 3 Comic Plays, grades 5,6,7,8
Here are 3 humorous, read-aloud plays for middle school casts. Each play depicts odd characteristics and behavior of a wild creature. Lesson plan and cast award certificates included. Fifth graders can perform Musings On An Octopus if vocab is well-covered first.
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5th - 8th
Step-By-Step Writing Conference Guides for Volunteers & Tutors Gr. 2-6
Got help? Great! Getting the targeted help you need? PRICELESS! This packet includes step-by-step, 1 page guides for meeting with individuals and small groups for writing conferences 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!SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I just
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2nd - 6th
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Rachel Carson: A Reader's Theater Script
WOMEN in SCIENCE: Rachel Carson, a Biography!A Biologist and marine zoologist, Carson’s books shared her love of nature, especially the ocean and its inhabitants. Her book, Silent Spring, sparked concern in how chemical pesticides were harming our environment. Carson helped to start the environmental movement in our country, which led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This Reader's Theater Script could be used as a STEM biography any time of year or especially during
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5th - 9th
Jacques Cousteau: A Reader's Theater Script
Studying the ocean? Looking for a resource for Earth Day or World Ocean Day? Introduce your students to Jacques Cousteau with this informative Reader's Theater Script. Oceanographer, photographer, scientist, inventor, writer and filmmaker, Cousteau spent his life studying the oceans and the marine life that lived in the oceans. His books and films on his studies sparked much interest in our oceans and created an awareness about the need for marine conservation. Part of my Ms. Bie Ografee Talk Sh
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5th - 9th
Also included in: Trailblazers in Science(SIX STEM Biographical Plays)BUNDLE of RESOURCES
Trees, Bees, and Centipedes--Reader's Theater for Earth Day
Perfect for Earth Day! Nature Talks Back is four coordinated skits designed to give younger students insight into ecology and conservation. The main concepts are that trees communicate, that some perceived pests are considered beneficial insects, and that honeybees are super-important pollinators. Each “act” has around 10 characters, which can remain consistent throughout the play or be recast for each skit. Altogether there are fourteen unique parts. The play is aimed specifically at kids in u
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3rd - 6th
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Writing Process & Fundamentals Unit-BUNDLED-Differentiated, Common Core
This 5-week long Writing Fundamentals unit teaches students compound sentences, the power paragraph, and the five paragraph essay. It also teaches students how to workshop one another's pieces to help each other succeed.
**This unit includes three other products from my site:
--Differentiated compound sentences
--Writing the Power Paragraph
--Writing the Five Paragraph Essay (complete with the Writer's Workshop!)
By purchasing this bundled unit, you save over 20% than if you purchased the less
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5th - 11th
Michael Recycle Reader's Theater Script
This script was adapted from the book Michael Recycle, written by Ellie Bethel. Students will have fun with the rhymes and rhythms of the words as they read. The story is great to use all year long, but would work very well for a unit on recycling or as an Earth Day activity.
There are 8 narrator/character parts.
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2nd - 6th
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Bundle Earth day Readers Theater Series: 5 stories
Bundle Earth day Readers Theater Series: 5 storiesThe Green GuardiansThe Energy DetectivesThe Recycle RallyPlanting the FutureMission: Save WaterEarth day themed Reader's Theater scripts, for students in grades 4-7. Each script in this series not only entertains but also educates students on important environmental issues, such as recycling, conservation, and sustainability.What's Included:Comprehensive Instructions: A detailed guide on how to introduce the script, assign roles , and effectively
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4th - 7th
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The Triple R's (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) - Small Group Reader's Theater
This reader's theater was written for a small group of 5 students. It was written to introduce and reinforce the topic of recycling as well as discuss Earth Day. In this script, five students have volunteered to help their teacher clean up after the class party. They get into a discussion about how they can reduce their garbage and why they should. Through this script, students are introduced to a poem to help them remember how to recycle. It is called The Triple R Test. I use all of my Reader's
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2nd - 6th
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Environment Class Play or Assembly
Environment Class Play - what can we do to help?
Cast of 30 - easily adapted up or down.
Narrator plus 29 Protesters! And who would have thought our narrator would find himself ... a Protester?
Duration - around 15 minutes reading time (not including music suggestions). The length of the script can of course be easily extended by adding on more information about man's negative impact on the environment and what we can do to reduce our carbon footprints.
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Protester 28: We can all do
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4th - 7th
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Mesopotamia: Origins of Writing Reader's Theater & Discussion
Overview:The reader’s theater is a great way to analyze why people began to create forms of writing. I find that it is important to break this down into little scenes because students can put themselves in the realities of trading and bartering without a common system of communication. With language that students can understand, they will be able to connect the idea that “necessity is the mother of invention,” and that the true origin purpose of writing and creating a written language was to tra
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5th - 7th
Green Team Starter Kit
Interested in starting a club at your school? Here is everything you will need to start a Green Team and help your students learn about reducing, reusing and recycling. This starter kit will provide ways for students to take action and be leaders in the school. It includes...year long schedule templates for and information about how we run announcements a number of skits for students to perform about going greendifferent programs to run such as ColorCycling, recycling, and events for schoolaward
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3rd - 8th
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Earth day readers theater Series: Mission: Save Water
Earth day readers theater Series: Mission: Save WaterEarth day themed Reader's Theater scripts, for students in grades 4-7. Each script in this series not only entertains but also educates students on important environmental issues, such as recycling, conservation, and sustainability. What's Included:Comprehensive Instructions: A detailed guide on how to introduce the script, assign roles , and effectively use the Reader's Theater method to enhance learning and participation.Key Vocabulary and D
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle Earth day Readers Theater Series: 5 stories
Earth day readers theater Series: Planting the Future
Earth day readers theater Series: Planting the FutureEarth day themed Reader's Theater scripts, for students in grades 4-7. Each script in this series not only entertains but also educates students on important environmental issues, such as recycling, conservation, and sustainability. What's Included:Comprehensive Instructions: A detailed guide on how to introduce the script, assign roles , and effectively use the Reader's Theater method to enhance learning and participation.Key Vocabulary and D
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle Earth day Readers Theater Series: 5 stories
Earth day readers theater Series: The Recycle Rally
Earth day readers theater Series: The Recycle RallyEarth day themed Reader's Theater scripts, for students in grades 4-7. Each script in this series not only entertains but also educates students on important environmental issues, such as recycling, conservation, and sustainability. What's Included:Comprehensive Instructions: A detailed guide on how to introduce the script, assign roles , and effectively use the Reader's Theater method to enhance learning and participation.Key Vocabulary and Def
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle Earth day Readers Theater Series: 5 stories
Earth day readers theater Series: The Energy Detectives
Earth day readers theater Series: The Energy DetectivesEarth day themed Reader's Theater scripts, for students in grades 4-7. Each script in this series not only entertains but also educates students on important environmental issues, such as recycling, conservation, and sustainability. What's Included:Comprehensive Instructions: A detailed guide on how to introduce the script, assign roles , and effectively use the Reader's Theater method to enhance learning and participation.Key Vocabulary and
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle Earth day Readers Theater Series: 5 stories
Earth day readers theater Series: The Green Guardians
Earth day readers theater Series: The Green GuardiansEarth day themed Reader's Theater scripts, for students in grades 4-7. Each script in this series not only entertains but also educates students on important environmental issues, such as recycling, conservation, and sustainability. What's Included:Comprehensive Instructions: A detailed guide on how to introduce the script, assign roles , and effectively use the Reader's Theater method to enhance learning and participation.Key Vocabulary and D
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle Earth day Readers Theater Series: 5 stories
Write a Play: Generating Action, Climax, Conclusion - Be a Playwright - PART 4
Creating a play in class can be great fun! With just a bit of understanding about basic components, students can get those creative juices flowing! This workshop includes generating an exciting action, climax, and conclusion as you write a play. Students need lots of practice to write an awesome play, so be sure to add one to your writing component at least once a year.
This 28-page workshop includes:
Play, "Temper, Temper"
Play Prompts
Dialogue
Characters
Conflict
Building Characters
Buildi
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7th - 10th
Christmas Around the World - Readers' Theater
Celebrate the weeks before Christmas with this readers' theater and research project. The script provides a great introduction for a research project on Christmas tradition around the world. Students will use a graphic organizer to create a three paragraph essay to share with classmates. Check out my Christmas Around the World Freebie.
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4th - 6th
Earth Day Play - Earth Elves at Work-Environment Week Script
Want to do something different for Environment Week? This is a fantastic original drama play that tells the story of earth elves who remind people how to be environmentally friendly. The play is broken down into 5 separate short, easy skits linked together by the elf actors so rehearsing is much simpler. Every performer has at least one line. Minimal props and costumes! The entire play is approximately 25 minutes long and 30 students. Tons of fun!
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3rd - 6th
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