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Free Thanksgiving scripts
Reader's Theater: 13 Colonies-Life in a New England Colony!
Bring key characteristics of the 13 colonies to life with this FREEBIE Reader’s Theater script featuring the New England Colonies! This is part of a leveled set of 3 reader’s theater featuring the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial way of life plus additional comparison activities! This freebie script contains 6 parts, making it a perfect activity for centers or leveled guided reading groups! This activity helps integrate Social Studies history content with Language Arts common core s
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3rd - 6th
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Thanksgiving Reader's Theater Five Plump Turkeys
A reader's theater created for first and second grade from the poem Five Plump Turkeys. Students will enjoy reading from this one page script and acting out the roles. This skit is perfect for most almost mid year readers. Parts could be doubled by pairing a low reader with a higher reader. My first graders love to perform reader theaters for their reading buddies and our school's kindergarten classes. It would be great for a parent night too. I hope you enjoy it and please contact me if you
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K - 2nd
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The Great Turkey Race Readers Theater
Grab this freebie!This Readers Theater is perfect for building your students fluency. There are 18 parts. It can be shortened by combining some of the parts into smaller roles if needed. Your kids will love it. Mine did. This play is perfect for grades 1-4
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1st - 4th
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Thanksgiving Readers Theater Activity with Pilgrims & Pumpkins
“Squanto’s Squash”—A Free Thanksgiving Readers Theater with Pilgrimsby Carol Montgomery“Squanto’s Squash” jumps into the history of Thanksgiving with Pilgrims, Native Americans, and more. This non-fiction Readers Theater script comes in two flavors: lively–with group participation or shorter and calmer–without interruption. Complete with a vocabulary list and annotated curriculum links for easy lesson plans, this free Readers Script is perfect for elementary students. For 2nd or 3rd graders
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4th - 6th
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Thanksgiving Reader's Theater
Here is a cute little readers theater that I wrote for my 2nd grade class to perform for their parents this Thanksgiving. It all came from those inspiring Eat Mor Chickin Chick a Fila cows. Enjoy!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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1st - 3rd
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The Pilgrim's Voyage to the New World & their first Thanksgiving
This is the in depth story leading up to the Pilgrim's first Thanksgiving from their original departure from England to Holland, and then traveling to the New World. Visuals of the boats, the people, and the terrain add to the understanding of the difficulties that persisted. Carefully researched facts are included in the presenter's view and contain information about the purpose of the Pilgrim's voyages, conditions and measurements of the Mayflower, the passengers, the Mayflower Compact, expedi
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3rd - 8th
FREE READERS' THEATER SCRIPT THANKSGIVING NOW AND THEN (1st SCENE FREE)
Reader’s Theater Script with Content for Intermediate Readers. Thanksgiving Now and Then is a fun script with 5 characters. Susy's family gets together to celebrate THANKSGIVING. While Susy's grandparents' visit, they get to talk about the first Thanksgiving, how many of the traditions were born, and how they have changed in time.YOU GET THE FIRST SCENE FREE WITH COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS.LOOK FOR THE COMPLETE SCRIPT WITH 3 SCENES AND LOTS OF ACTIVITIES!
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2nd - 4th
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Scripts: 4 Thanksgiving freebies
Four Thanksgiving skits and choral readings. A Tale of Two Thanksgivings While shooting a modern day Thanksgiving scene a director chooses the second "take" that emphasizes giving to others. Cast: 5; run time: 5 minutes.Lost or Grateful - When the rich man of Luke 12 forgets who gave him the ability to produce wealth and crops, he ends up being led away by the devil. Cast 4; run time 3 minutes.Plus, Thanksgiving choral reading and reader's theaterCheck out these other freebies and holiday pro
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3rd - 9th
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Simplified–Thanksgiving Readers Theater Activity with Pilgrims & Pumpkins
“Squanto’s Squash” jumps into the history of Thanksgiving with Pilgrims, Native Americans, and more. Squanto’s Squash, Simplified comes in two flavors: lively–with group participation or calmer and shorter–without interruption . The longer, livelier version is perfect to engage a younger crowd, parents, or a larger group of students. The short version is appropriate for smaller groups or more mature students who frown on silliness. Complete with a vocabulary list and annotated curriculum link
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2nd - 4th
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Thanksgiving Play
A relatively historically accurate play about the story of Thanksgiving. Racially sensitive and has song! Great for younger elementary!
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PreK - 2nd
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Winner, Winner, Turkey Dinner! - Sample Version
Winner, Winner, Turkey Dinner is a patriotic, semi-historical (but mostly inaccurate) Thanksgiving skit. This was originally written to be performed as part of a Reader's Theater course, but could be performed with full costumes and sets if desired. Hilarious and entertaining for all ages, this skit is a delight to watch and participate in!AN INTRODUCTION....."Thanksgiving has been a long-time favorite holiday for many Americans. Not only is it a time to reflect on the blessings and abundance of
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Not Grade Specific
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Thanksgiving Show Script
This script was written for Kindergarten. The Thanksgiving script features a simple story with lots of repetition. The folk tale about the "Giant Turnip" has been added to the story to lengthen it. The script is saved as a Word document and can be changed and personalized to adapt to any classroom situation. Using the "find and replace" commands, teachers can import the names of their students into the script in mere minutes.
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PreK - 1st
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Thanksgiving PSA Project
This project allows your students to create a Public Service Announcement persuading Americans to not eat turkey for Thanksgiving. Your students will have a blast.
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4th - 9th
FREE The First Thanksgiving Group Script
A script for a group to use for a presentation about The First Thanksgiving. Explains how to divide up the students and suggests using puppets for smaller groups.
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FREE SPANISH READERS' THEATER SCRIPT THANKSGIVING NOW AND THEN (1st SCENE)
SPANISH Reader’s Theater Script with Content for Intermediate Readers. Thanksgiving Now and Then is a fun script with 5 characters. Susy's family gets together to celebrate THANKSGIVING. While Susy's grandparents' visit, they get to talk about the first Thanksgiving, how many of the traditions were born, and how they have changed in time.YOU GET THE FIRST SCENE FREE WITH COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS.LOOK FOR THE COMPLETE SCRIPT WITH 3 SCENES AND LOTS OF ACTIVITIES!
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2nd - 4th
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Thankful Perspectives: A Poem for Three Voices
This poem would be a good introduction for a "What I'm Thankful For" writing assignment. It shows three very different perspectives: student A really likes video games, student B is having some trouble at home, and student C is a refugee.
You could put students in groups of three and have them practice reading it for fluency, or they could perform it for someone else.
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3rd - 6th
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