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Speedy Racer - Reader's Theater Scripts and Activities for Grades 4-7

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This is a fun and easy readers theater. Try students found the characters very relatable which made it even more fun for them.
My kids love reader's theater! They enjoy using different voices and it is a way to make learning fun. They asked to use it again. Win!
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Description

Speedy Racer is an evergreen reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating high-interest stories into your language arts instruction. This 12 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!

Utilize this 7-page, 12-character readers theater script in one class period, or over a week to allow your students more opportunities to enhance their abilities as fluent readers, responders to text, and summarizers.

This 15-page resource includes:

• 12-character, 7-page script

• Reader Response Questions to check for comprehension

• Summary Organizer for Interactive Notebooks

• Clear directions for immediate classroom use

• CCSS covered through student work

Estimated Lexile Measurement: 700L.

Reader's theater scripts are an essential tool for middle school language arts. I use them regularly to enhance fluency, increase student engagement, and sharpen our reading comprehension skills.

If you are looking for a high-interest, fiction, common core focused passage with reader response questions, a summary graphic organizer, and answer keys, this is the perfect product for your classroom!

Speedy Racer is about a middle grades student that learns the hard way that in order to compete, it takes dedication and practice!

This script is also a perfect teaching/learning tool to utilize with a substitute teacher to keep your students engaged while you are out of the classroom!

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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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