7th grade Halloween balanced literacy scripts

Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Tools for Common Core

Reader's Theater Scripts for BIG KIDS! Cover your reading literature standards while engaging your students with these high-interest reader's theater scripts and reading literature toolkits. Your upper elementary and middle school students will LOVE the chance to perform while working on fluency, comprehension, context clues, and writing. Each unit is a NO PREP, PRINT AND GO resource with ANSWER KEYS! This bundle includes 12-different reading literature toolkits. The scripts included are:• Ae

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4th - 8th

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Jackie Robinson readers theater baseball play

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Balanced Literacy, Black History Month, Drama

Here's a compelling play about Jackie Robinson. Over my nearly thirty years of using drama in the classroom, kids say this is one of their favorites to enact. This original script recounts the events surrounding Jackie's breaking of the color barrier through the narration of the Hot Dog Man and the Peanut Vendor at an "actual" ballgame today. (You can hear a podcast presentation of the play at ReadAloudPlays.com) Parts for from 7 to 13 actors, and suitable for reader's theater, podcast, or sta

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4th - 7th

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RL.5.1

, RI.4.1

, RI.6.4

Reader's Theater for Grades 4-8: The Cafeteria Catastrophe-A CCSS Pack

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Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Tools for Common Core

No Prep-Print and Go Reader's Theater Script and Comprehension Activities!The Cafeteria Catastrophe 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 11 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!This 18-page fun pack includes:• 11-character, 9-

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4th - 7th

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, RL.5.1

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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids

Halloween Reader's Theater & Reading Literature Toolkit for Grades 4-8

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English Language Arts, Halloween, Tools for Common Core

The Happy Halloween That Almost Wasn't... is a Halloween reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating Halloween themes into your language arts instruction. This 11 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!Your students will love reading about the characters of Parkersburg Elementary School and how their Halloween tra

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4th - 7th

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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids

Read Aloud Plays: The Monkey's Paw gothic masterpiece

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Balanced Literacy, Drama, Short Stories

Now with comprehension activities and extensions! This adaptation of W.W. Jacobs''s Gothic masterpiece is perfect for grades 5 through 8 (and potentially 4th). Originally published in the April 2012 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, use it as fluency-building reader's theater or as as a full classroom production or podcast. This twenty-minute play includes nine pages and parts for up to eleven students. What would you do with three wishes? Readers of the Monkey's Paw learn that those who med

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5th - 8th

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Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart Modernized Readers Theater

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Balanced Literacy, Drama, Reading

A clever adaption of Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic masterpiece in a modern setting. Uniquely suitable for a wide-range of readers. Because the "beating heart" is an annoying cell phone, all your fourth through eighth graders will readily relate to the story. Whether reader's theater or stage production, this fifteen-minute play includes parts for up to nine students. Original purchaser is licensed to reproduce a full class set every year! Looking for a traditional re-telling? Take a look at my Tell-T

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5th - 8th

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Reader's Theater Scripts for BIG KIDS Collection

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Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Tools for Common Core

The complete collection of Erin Beers' reader's theater scripts for BIG KIDS!Cover your reading literature standards while engaging your students with these high-interest reader's theater scripts.Your students will LOVE the chance to perform while working on fluency, comprehension, context clues, and writing. Each no-prep PDF toolkit includes comprehension activities and answer keys, making it easy to incorporate reader's theater into any day!This COLLECTION bundle includes 24 different reading

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4th - 7th

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Game: Murder at the Manor (mystery party activity)

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Drama, Forensics, Halloween

If you like Game of Thrones, you'll enjoy Murder at The Manor The Earl Henry is dead and without an heir on the eve of the annual tournament and feast. Who could have done such a dastardly deed at the castle? His 4th wife? The traveling minstrel? One of his sisters or a host of other relatives, servants and knights from the realm? Play a suspect and a detective as you investigate the crime set in Medieval Europe. Mystery party games are an engaging alternative to hum drum usual fare and

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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart Reader's Theater Play

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Balanced Literacy, Drama, Halloween

Originally published in the October 2008 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine (and later reprinted in Scope, Scholastic News, and my book, Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories), this newly-revised script is true to the original text but is cleverly structured to be more appropriate for middle grade and young adult audiences. It includes the original text, a comprehension worksheet, a "mock trial" activity, as well as teacher notes and a key--fourteen pages in all. Parts for 9 students, s

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5th - 9th

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Worksheets, Scripts, Simulations

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Headless Horseman Reader's Theater

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Balanced Literacy, Drama, Halloween

The Headless Horseman conjures up images of ghosts and zombies--always engaging topics for young students. But “Sleepy Hollow” is more than just a ghost story. This original script is based on Washington Irving’s 1820 short story of the same name. It was originally published in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine and later reprinted in Scope. It also appears in Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories (2011, Scholastic). It’s aimed at 5th through 7th graders, but a strong 4

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4th - 8th

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Cyclops: The Monster in the Cave--Readers Theater from The Odyssey

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Balanced Literacy, Drama, Literature

Includes comprehension activity, key, and teacher notes! Liven up your reading curriculum and satisfy the Common Core with this kid-friendly classroom play based on the 9th book of Homer's The Odyssey. Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, "Cyclops" is suitable for reader's theater or stage performance. Use it to introduce the original text, build fluency, and improve comprehension. Pair it with a Percy Jackson novel as part of a literature circle! Or j

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5th - 9th

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Scripts, Literature Circles

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Drama, English Language Arts, Halloween

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READERS THEATER HALLOWEEN Mystery Script Activity for Middle School

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Brilliantly Lit

This Readers’ Theater whodunnit Halloween mystery read aloud script will give students fun scares and giggles. The Mystery of the Halloween Thieves readers’ theater script activity will entertain your students in both grades 5-8 ELA and drama classes. It requires them to use critical thinking skills and make inferences from context clues to reveal the identities of the thieves. The script is intended for about 11 students but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded, depending

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5th - 8th

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RL.5.2

, RL.5.3

, RL.5.10

, RL.6.2

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Also included in: 50% OFF READERS' THEATER SCRIPTS HOLIDAYS and SEASONS BUNDLE - 10 scripts

Game: Fairy Tale Wedding (Mystery Activity Package)

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Drama, English Language Arts, Halloween

FAIRY TALE WEDDING MYSTERY ACTIVITY PACKET You are cordially invited to the Fairy Tale Wedding of Prince Charming and Cinderella. Oops! They've been kidnapped! Whodunit? Why? Bring literature to life while writing your own ending to a highly interactive event that immerses students in literary terms and research first hand. After engaging in discussion and research into the fairy tale genre of literature, players take the roles of various fairy tale characters and function as both suspe

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5th - 12th

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RL.5.3

, RL.6.7

, RL.7.7

, RL.8.7

, RL.9-10.7

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Read Aloud Play: Stolen Childhoods--Lewis Hine's Crusade to End Child Labor

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Balanced Literacy, Drama, U.S. History

At the height of the Great Depression, the pioneering photography of Lewis Hine freed generations of children from having to slave away for pennies an hour in coal mines, canneries, and textile mills. Hine often risked physical harm to photograph children in deplorable working conditions, but his work eventually led to the establishment of America’s child labor laws. Originally published in the Oct. 31, 2011, issue of Scope Magazine and republished in the Feb. 27, 2012, issue of Junior Scholasti

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4th - 7th

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Activities, Guided Reading Books, Scripts

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RL.4.2

, RL.5.2

, RL.6.2

, RI.4.8

, RI.5.8

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ELA Emergency Sub Plans for Middle School Vol. 5

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Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Tools for Common Core

Emergency ELA Sub Plans for Middle School - Volume 5These language arts sub plans are perfect for filling (or refreshing) your substitute binder with engaging, standards-based activities. This is a true stand-alone resource that was designed to offer a print and go sub plan solution for middle school ELA teachers. No additional books or companion materials are needed!This resource includes:• 3-page high-interest reader’s theater script • 1-page informational text• Reader Response Questions for e

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4th - 7th, Staff

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Also included in: ELA Emergency Sub Plans Bundle for Middle School

Gift of the Magi Reader's Theater Play Script

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Balanced Literacy, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Drama

"The Gift of the Magi” is a traditional re-telling of the endearing story of a husband and wife who pawn their most precious things in order to buy gifts for one another, only to discover the gifts are no longer needed. The original story was written by William Sydney Porter, who wrote under the pen-name “O. Henry.” He was famous for plot twists and surprise endings. This reader’s theater adaption originally appeared in the Nov./Dec. 2001 issue of Storyworks, the Dec. 2010 issue of Scope, and in

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4th - 7th

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Balanced Literacy, Biology, Reading

Circulatory System Reader's Theatre

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Stephen Slates

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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Activities, Scripts, Centers

Game: The Will Murder Mystery activity/script & lesson plans

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Drama, Forensics, Halloween

THE WILL MURDER MYSTERY ACTIVITY When rich old Mrs. Wetherington dies the family and staff are shocked, not at her death (after all she was old and many people wanted her dead) but at her will. The bulk of the estate would go to the person who fingered her murderer. Skeletons in closets, blackmail and underhanded dealings all abound at the family estate as everyone points fingers and declares their innocence. Mystery activities are an engaging alternative to hum drum get togethers, typical drama

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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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HALLOWEEN DRAMA MIDDLE SCHOOL FUN

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Brilliantly Lit

30% off! Halloween can be CRAAAZY in ELA and drama Middle School lessons. The two fun mystery Readers' Theater scripts, and the 32 impromptu Halloween public speaking topics will funnel your grades 5-8 students' candy crazed energies positively! The Mystery of the Halloween Thieves is set on October 31. The Mystery of the Haunted House is set a few weeks before Halloween, and thus could be used before or after Halloween if time runs out. Both scripts focus on Middle School students and their fun

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Drama, Halloween

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5th - 8th

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Jen Bengel - Out of This World Literacy

3 Growth Mindset Reader's Theaters - Respecting Others

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This is a super exciting resource that will help your students:Learn about respecting others with their words and actionsBuild reading fluency by performing a reader's theaterGain confidence as readers and in front of an audienceLearn to work togetherReflect on their new thinkingIncluded in This Resource:3 RT scripts at different ability levels (basic, average, advanced).6-8 Character roles for each script at varying ability levels.Specific learning topics for each script.6 writing prompts.12 di

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Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Reading

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5th - 7th

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Printables, Scripts, Graphic Organizers

Also included in: 12 Reader's Theaters - Growth Mindset Bundle Grades 5-7

Game: Who Shot Prospector Pete (Murder Mystery activity)

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Forensics, Halloween, U.S. History

Prospector Pete is found shot in the back at his mining claim with a peck of people possibly involved including his wife Betsy, the Raindance Kid, Hoss Steel, Lily Lang Tree (or is it Land Tree?) and many more. Jump right in as a suspect and a detective and figure out who did it. Mystery party games are an engaging alternative to hum drum usual fare and make wonderful drama activities. Add spice to that theater class, family reunion, retreat or birthday/anniversary party. Acting experience and

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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Reader's Theater: O.Henry's "A Retrieved Reformation" Classic Short Story

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Balanced Literacy, Drama, Reading

"A Retrieved Reformation" is a student-friendly adaption of O.Henry's classic short story of the same name, and like many O.Henry stories it ends with a twist. Improve student comprehension and fluency by using the play before reading the original text, or simply use it as an engaging literary activity. Includes two comprehension activities on context clues and making inferences. This play script is well-suited to reader's theater or full stage production and includes parts for nine to sixteen s

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4th - 8th

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