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Martin Luther King Day Reader's Theater Toolkit for Middle School

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My students love readers theater; I even add a competition aspect to help them get into the performance while also using repetition.
This was one of my favorite activities with my students. They looked forward to this lesson all 3 days! It was amazing
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Description

This Martin Luther King Readers Theater Unit is one your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating MLK Day activities into your language arts instruction. This 10-character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making it a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!

This is the perfect resource for sharing information about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while staying on task with your reading and writing goals.

This Martin Luther King, Jr. resource includes:

• 6-page, 10-character script

• reader response questions for comprehension

• context clue word work

• journal prompt for writing

• summary organizer

• figurative language work

• an interactive notebook page

• answer key

Estimated Lexile Measure: 820L

Summary: Mr. Garlock, an engaging social studies teacher, wants his students to learn about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. However, his goal is to have them learn through their own guided research and teach each other by sharing their new knowledge of Dr. King. Your students won't realize all of the information they are absorbing with this high-interest passage.

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Teaching Duration
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Standards

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).
Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.

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