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6th grade science scripts $5-10
Reader's Theater Science Bundle Rocks & Minerals, Solar System, & Weather Play
Looking for a way to incorporate reading and science? How about adding fluency practice for the whole class? This Reader's Theater Science Bundle includes three original plays: I Wanna Be a Rock Star (Rocks and Minerals), Weather, and the Solar System. Each script has enough parts (30) for the whole class and is great to use as part of a science unit, for fluency practice, or to add variety to your reading program. The best part about these plays is that besides being full of scientific informat
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3rd - 6th
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Circulatory System Reader's Theatre
Heart, blood vessels, blood cells, spleen, and platelets oh my! Are you studying the circulatory system and need a quick review? Have your students practice this reader's theatre. Packed with 11 characters including a funny virus and a white blood cell who hopes to gobble up every germ in their path, this reader's theatre will help your students become more fluent readers and learn about this important body system at the same time.
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3rd - 8th
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As The Cell Turns - The Drama of Life -Science Reader's Theater Script
This is an original Reader's Theater script, based on the organelles of the animal cell and their function. Your students will enjoy playing the parts of the living cell as they argue about who is the most important and learn how all the parts of the cell work together. This cross-curricular science script can be used in reading class as a non-fiction work, or in science while studying the cell.
Along with the script, name tags for each organelle are included with an icon chosen to help stu
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5th - 7th
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Respiratory System Reader's Theatre
Do you need a way to help student's better understand the respiratory system? Are words like alveoli and pharynx difficult to explain? After studying the respiratory system, why not review its functions and parts using a reader's theatre? This 11 part reader's theatre easily explain what happens when Oxygen enters a person's nose, travels through the trachea, pharynx, bronchial tubes, and into the lungs. Add the character diaphragm and you have a fun filled way to learn more about this important
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3rd - 8th
Bundle: Super Cell Mega pack
Save 66%!!! Looking for ways to differentiate? Tier lessons? Appeal to multiple intelligences? Need anchor activities? Super cell package is a time and energy saver that lets you do all of the above. Products are sold separately for $18. You get them all for 1/3 of the regular prices. Entire package includes:
Cell organelle and process card game
Mitosis card game
3 germ fighting card games
1 Cell bingo (clues and 25 unique cards)
5 reader’s theater scripts (with directions and rubric)
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Reader's Theater Science Bundle 2 | Adaptations, Physics, Weathering & Erosion
Love to save time by incorporating reading and science? How about adding fluency practice for the whole class? This Reader's Theater Science Bundle includes three original plays, Adaptations Around the World, Force and Motion at the Amusement Park (introductory physics), and Dude, Where's My Rock? (about weathering, erosion, and deposition).Each script has enough parts (30) for the whole class but can be modified for a smaller group. You'll love having these to introduce or review science units,
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3rd - 6th
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The Scientific Method Reader's Theater
In this four page reader's theater script written for 5 readers, the class learns the steps of the scientific method and how we can use them in our daily life to discover things that are hidden all around us!
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3rd - 6th
Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System Reader's Theater Script & Name Tags
This is a readers theater script for the 1990 book The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is written to include 22 students along with non-speaking roles to make the soundscape with percussion instruments. The front page has a link to my slideshow that accompanies this script. The script also contains name tags for each character: print and cut them out, hole punch them at the top, tie some string and have each student wear their name tag (the script fo
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2nd - 6th
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SCRIPT funny science play about light cavemen and chicken nuggets
An entertaining script about light. Students learn about the parts of the eye, lenses, reflection, the light spectrum and an experiment to bend light. Script is suitable for grades 3-5 and can fit around 20 students.
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3rd - 6th
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ExC-ELL Aligned Vocabulary Introduction & Word Wall: Force, Motion, and Energy
Highly effective for emerging Bilingual/Multilingual students (truly, all students). Introduce the vocabulary essential to engaging with the content. These slides give you all of the resources to align your introduction with the ExC-ELL routine including:- the word hyperlinked to a dictionary definition, - the word in context, - a relevant photograph, - and sentence starters and frames for oral discoursePrint the word word wall pages to make the words visible for students to support their disco
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2nd - 6th
Reader's Theater WILSON BENTLEY: THE SNOWFLAKE MAN Great Historical Non-Fiction!
If you are searching for a way to get your students to enjoy reading, become more expressive, read aloud with confidence, become more fluent…then let the magic begin!!
I have found using Reader’s Theater with large and small groups really helps my students strengthen their reading and language arts skills! My class CHEERS every time I tell them we are going to do Reader’s Theater!! This technique makes reading come alive for your students and can really develop classroom full of confident rea
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2nd - 7th
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Heredity Crime Scene Lab
Crime Scene Lab based on basic Genetics/HeredityIncluded: PowerPoint that goes along with the lab3 pages of student worksheets where they answer questions about basic genetics. Punnett Squares are also on the worksheet for students to complete.Picture of how my classroom was set upScript for the teacher and a student to follow to engage class. Fact sheet that has answers to the lab for teacherCertificates for each student after they become a 'Detective'
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6th - 9th
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MS-LS3-1
Reader's Theater: Frog's Life Cycle
Merging Science and Reading with this fun Reader's Theater passage. This story can be used to recreate the frog's life cycle from egg to adult while also entertaining the audience with a Sneaky Snake villain!This story is 6 pages long with large font for easy reading. There are 5 characters in the story- great for a small group activity!
The Three Little Pigs and The Pizzeria Readers' Theatre Scripts and Assessments
The Three Little Pigs and The Pizzeria Readers' Theatre Scripts and Assessments is a fun and happier twist on the classic tale "The Three Little Pigs". This drama script was designed for students in Primary (Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3), however, this script could also be used for students in the Junior grades as well (Grades 4 - 6). In addition to The 3 Little Pigs and The Pizzeria Drama Script, you will also have access to: a customizable Letter to Parents, Student Planning Sheet, Student Drama
Reader's Theater MARIE CURIE ~ Great Non-Fiction! WOMEN'S HISTORY!
If you are searching for a way to get your students to enjoy reading, become more expressive, read aloud with confidence, become more fluent…then let the magic begin!!I have found using Reader’s Theater with large and small groups really helps my students strengthen their reading and language arts skills! My class CHEERS every time I tell them we are going to do Reader’s Theater!! This technique makes reading come alive for your students and can really develop classroom full of confident reade
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2nd - 8th
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Curiosity the Rover and the Long Trip to Mars
This is an original Reader's Theater script for elementary grades.
It imagines Curiosity the Rover's trip to Mars and what it encounters...
It includes 5 characters and includes a vocabulary list as well.
A fun story based on a relevant event that every student is interested in!
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2nd - 6th
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"We're Going on a Bear Hunt" Mad Lib Song & Art Project
This activity incorporates the song, "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Greg and Steve (2000). The students rewrite the lyrics by changing the animal, the 5 places the kids visit during the song, the prepositions, and they add action verbs at the end of the song as they run back home. This activity also helps students learn about animals and their habitats because the 5th place the kids visit must be the correct habitat. Have the class repeat each phrase back to the performer (either you or the kid
Sharing the Planet: Global Impact
Students will work collaboratively to create and perform a Reader's Theater Performance that brings to life a situation where living organism(s) and Earth's natural resources impact one another. This is a culminating project intended to assess the following: Collaborative & cooperative learning skills; comprehension of global environmental topics; understanding of the structure and conventions of writing a script in format
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3rd - 6th
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A Journey Through Time - Geological Time Scale
Take your class on a time travel adventure aboard the Time Blaster 2021. This time traveling machine will journey through the 3 main eras of the Geological Time Scale while explaining what the earth looked like and what sort of lifeforms inhabited it during each period. This lesson is appropriate for a wide-range of ages. The language used is as simple as can be given the terminology associated with this subject (my 7 year old was able to follow along and enjoyed it). You can choose to go into a
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3rd - 6th
Invention: Key to the Industrial Revolution - Meet the Big 12
The Industrial Revolution - you want to keep it simple because your students only need basic information. Here’s the unit for you - “Invention: Key to the Industrial Revolution - Meet the Big 12.” After a brief introduction of what the Industrial Revolution was, how it came into being, and how it affected society, my slide show illustrates the 12 key inventions with simple “how-they-worked” explanations, along with more than 50 pictures of the inventions and their inventors. The slide show ru
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4th - 8th
Academic Sentence Starters
It's no secret that getting students to talk when YOU want them to is tricky. I've found that by giving them tools to practice with, and feel confident using, they become so much more comfortable speaking academically! These are a great way to encourage students to practice, discuss, and use academic language in the classroom --- both virtually AND in-person. The Details:This pack includes student sheets, bulletin decor, and personal bookmarks for your students. The color copies are in rainbow t
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Reader's Theater LEONARDO da VINCI - Great Historic Nonfiction!
If you are searching for a way to get your students to enjoy reading, become more expressive, read aloud with confidence, become more fluent…then let the magic begin!!
I have found using Reader’s Theater with large and small groups really helps my students strengthen their reading and language arts skills! My class CHEERS every time I tell them we are going to do Reader’s Theater!! This technique makes reading come alive for your students and can really develop classroom full of confident rea
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2nd - 8th
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Freshwater Biome Powerpoint with Script
Save yourself time in preparation of teaching an introduction on the freshwater biome.You will present answers to these questions:What bodies of water are categorized as freshwater biome?Where can you find these freshwater sources?What makes a pond different than a lake other than its size?How do streams and rivers operate together? What are the award-winning rivers and lakes of the world?How are lakes formed?What is lake stratification?What impacts the velocity of a river?What are the flora and
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Biomes of the World Unit Study- 10 Biomes in All!
Coniferous Forest/Taiga/Boreal Biome Lesson Bundle (Presentation w/ Activities)
Present answers questions such as: Where is the coniferous forest located throughout the globe? What are the weather conditions in the taiga? What are the features of the trees that make this forest unique? What is the oldest, tallest and widest tree?What other plants survive in these forests?What are some of the animals that call the coniferous forest home?What is food web? This includes an overview of producers, consumers, and decomposers as well as an example food web for this biome.The Power
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5th - 8th
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