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3rd grade oral communication science scripts
Reader's Theater for Greek Mythology (3 leveled scripts; 4 myths)
Focus on differentiation! This reader’s theater set features 4 popular stories from Greek Mythology written on 3 separate reading levels for a total of 12 plays! Each script contains 5-6 parts, making it a perfect activity for centers or leveled guided reading groups! Modified versions provide support in basic fluency skills, regular versions focus on expression development, and enriched versions challenge students with tier 2 vocabulary and figurative language components. This set helps me
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle of Myths, Legends, and Traditional Tales!
Animal Classification ELA and Science Unit, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade
Animal Classification (An ELA and Science Unit)These wonderful activities go along great with any animal unit. They are especially great to support and enhance your science lessons on animal groups. The reader theater scripts are two part scripts that focus on information about each animal group. There are 6 animal groups highlighted: mammals, reptiles, insects, fish, amphibians and birds. The students can take turns being the different animals, learn new vocabulary and work on their reading f
Reader's Theater Solar System Science Class Play Fluency Practice Solar System
Looking for a way to fit more into the school day? Save time by incorporating reading and science. This Solar System science play is an original script I wrote for my class as an end of the year performance for parents and students, but it may also be used as a high-interest space introduction or review! It's filled with lots of scientific information about the sun, moons, planets, and other space objects, but even better, it's full of humor and fun! Your 3rd - 6th grade students will LOVE this
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3rd - 6th
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Halloween Reader’s Theater Scripts
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these Halloween reader’s theater plays have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the readers and the audience.
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Halloween Literacy Activities | Bundle
End of the Year Reader's Theater Scripts
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these reader’s theater plays for the end of the year have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the readers and
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Ultimate Bundle for Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Inference Reader’s Theater Scripts | Fluency Practice | Science of Reading
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these reader’s theater plays have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the readers and the audience.➡️➡️ SAVE
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Ultimate Bundle for Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Communication Breakdown Repair Strategies Rubric + Visuals Speech Therapy
Teaching students to recognize communication breakdown and repair their messages is a vital pragmatic skill for effective communication.⭐️ This product includes photos of 8 children and 8 adults showing a confused expression to begin the discussion of what communication breakdown looks like. It also includes written and visual cues for 6 repair strategies: repeat, speak slowly, speak clearly, say less. or more, say it differently, show. There is also an accompanying Repairing Communication Break
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K - 3rd
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Winter Holiday Reader’s Theater Scripts
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these winter holiday reader’s theater plays have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the readers and the audi
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Ultimate Bundle for Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Seasonal Reader's Theater | Science of Reading
Save BIG with this bundle of Reader's Theater plays for every occasion! Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these seasonal reader’s theater plays have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency prac
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3rd - 5th
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Skill Based Reader's Theater | Science of Reading
Save BIG with this bundle of Reader's Theater plays for 7 important key reading skills! Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these skill-based reader’s theater plays have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral
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3rd - 5th
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The Rock Cycle Reader's Theater
A fun way to act out the rock cycle! This reader's theater contains 20 speaking parts that explain the process that a rock goes through in the rock cycle. Students will not only be able to define sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks but they will also learn science vocabulary such as weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation, sediment, intrusive, extrusive, mantle, magma, and lava. Each word is defined in the script. Students will also review examples of each type of rock i
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3rd - 6th
Figurative Language Reader’s Theater Scripts | Fluency
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these reader’s theater plays all about figurative language have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the reade
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Ultimate Bundle for Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Spring Reader's Theater Scripts
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these reader’s theater plays for the spring season have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the readers and
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Ultimate Bundle for Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Thanksgiving Reader’s Theater Scripts for Practicing Reading Fluency
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these Thanksgiving reader’s theater plays have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the readers and the audien
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Ultimate Bundle for Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Rocks and Minerals Reader's Theater Science Class Play Fluency Practice Erosion
Looking for a way to save time by incorporating reading and science? How about adding fluency practice for the whole class? This "I Wanna Be a Rock Star" Play is all about rocks and minerals. It is an original science script I wrote for my class as an end of the year performance for parents and students, but it may also be used as a great activity to reinforce a rocks and minerals science unit. The play is filled with lots of scientific information about rocks and minerals, including sedimentary
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3rd - 6th
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Hard to Hear Scenarios: Deaf Education
These task cards include 40 hard to hear scenarios for your Deaf\Hard of Hearing students. Use the task cards to work on self advocacy skills and role play situations that might occur in your students day and what they can do to solve the communication breakdown. Topics include:ClassroomCafeteriaThe School BusRestaurantsSporting EventsOutsideGym ClassLibraryChurchFriend's HouseOutsideHallwayCheck out some other self-advocacy resources:Deaf Education Vocabulary GameMy Hearing Loss BookLanguage, L
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2nd - 12th
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Readers' Theater: The Great Turkey Race
A fun play to perform around Thanksgiving time! Three turkeys strive to be the Thanksgiving Turkey--not knowing what really happens to the Thanksgiving Turkey. They host a turkey Field Day to compete for medals, which they think will show the farmer who he should pick. But when one of the turkeys finds out what exactly happens to the Thanksgiving turkey, they come up with a plan to fly the coop.
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K - 3rd
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Reader's Theater Weather Class Play - Weather Science Activity Fluency Practice
Save time by incorporating reading and science! This Weather Play is an original science script I wrote for my class as an end of the year performance for parents and students, but it may also be used as part of a weather unit in science. Not only does it contain excellent scientific information about the water cycle, and weather phenomena like rain, snow, hail, thunder, lightning, and cloud types, but it's also funny and is one your students will love!Specifically, it includes:15 page Original
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3rd - 6th
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Readers' Theater: The Gruffalo
A very clever little mouse outsmarts a fox, an owl, a snake and a Gruffalo. What's a Gruffalo? Well it's a creature with sharp teeth, orange eyes, hairy legs and big fat toes. Mouse's imagination catches up with him when he actually meets the Gruffalo!This play is based on the fantastic book 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson. My class saw this book brought to life at our local performing arts center when a touring company came to town and it was awesome!This script is 4.5 pages in length and
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1st - 3rd
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Earth's Rotation and Revolution Reader's Theater
This script allows students to perform and act out the rotation and revolution of Earth. The reader's theater explains the day and night cycle, the difference between rotate and revolve, and the causes of the seasons.
Some ideas are to have your students form small groups to perform for other students. Have them create props, a background, add silly voices... anything to help them comprehend! Kids love acting!
Check out my Science Reader's Theater Bundle and other Science Reader's Theaters:
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3rd - 6th
Reader's Theater for Oral Reading Fluency Practice 6 Science Themed Class Plays
Looking for a way to save time by incorporating reading and science? Want to give your students meaningful and fun fluency practice? This Reader's Theater Science Bundle can help you accomplish all those goals! It includes six original plays: I Wanna Be a Rock Star (Rocks and Minerals), Weather, the Solar System, Adaptations Around the World, Dude, Where's My Rock (weathering, erosion, and deposition), and Force and Motion at the Amusement Park (introductory physics).Each script has enough parts
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3rd - 6th
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Back to School Reader’s Theater Scripts
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these back to school reader’s theater plays have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the readers and the audi
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Ultimate Bundle for Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Readers' Theater: Room on the Broom
A great book turned into a fun Readers' Theater play is the perfect way for your students to work on their reading fluency (pace, smoothness, expression) and have fun at the same time! Included with this 6-page (7 character) script is a comprehension check and set of extension discussion questions for whole group, small group or partners, with or without guidance from the teacher.
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1st - 4th
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Speech Therapy Visuals | Visual Support Strips | New Year | Back to School
Have you collected and created a variety of visuals for your speech therapy sessions that you just can’t live without? I did and the pile just kept growing. Do you wish they were all uniform and ready to grab and go? This has been a goal of mine for many years and I finally created my most used visuals for speech therapy on handy strips. These are lifesavers for push-in classroom-based services. The portability of having every visual right on my ring is highly beneficial.Need more for Back to
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K - 5th
Also included in: Back to School Speech Therapy BUNDLE | School SLP
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