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8th grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa science scripts
Christmas Reader's Theater Script based on How the Grinch Stole Christmas
21 Roles - KID FRIENDLY - 8 page script - varying abilities - great vocab!
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3rd - 9th
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A Christmas Carol reader's theater play script (includes two versions!)
Originally part of the December 1998 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks Magazine, this traditional re-telling of the Ebenezer Scrooge story is perfect for Zoomer's theater, podcast, or classroom play--or add holiday hymns and create a full-fledged stage production. For 10 to 16 participants and innumerable extras. A second version from my book, Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories (2010 Scholastic) is also included. In it, Scrooge is a woman, Eleanora Scrooge. Two comprehension activities are a
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: A Dickens' Christmas -- Reader's Theater Pack
READERS' THEATER CHRISTMAS MYSTERY SCRIPT for Middle School
This humorous Christmas Readers’ Theater brain teaser whodunnit mystery script activity will give your ELA and drama students fun practice in reading, critical thinking and writing. Perfect for engaging ELA reading or Christmas drama performances for grades 5-8! The Mystery of the Vanishing Presents 9 page script (plus questions and Christmas activities) will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The script is designed for 11 readers but the number
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: CHRISTMAS DRAMA MIDDLE SCHOOL FUN
Christmas Reader's Theater Script based on Home Alone the Movie
23 roles - 8 pages - fun, fun, fun!
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Game: Murder at the Manor (mystery party activity)
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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Christmas Comedy Drama Bundle - four Christmas plays
Christmas Comedy Drama Bundle is a collection of four original humorous plays that are suitable for reader's theater, classroom skits, or as a performance for a large audience. In The Christmas Rush, many last-minute shoppers hit their frustration point as they wait in a checkout line at a store behind an easygoing, unhurried shopper, who holds them up with his unintentional delays. In The Truth of the Matter, several characters pass along a story about a man who slipped and fell while out colle
Grades:
5th - 8th
A Christmas Carol Readers Theater, Discussion Questions and Test (3rd grade RL)
This readers' theater is based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and is written at a third-grade reading level. It could be used for middle school ESL students or middle or upper elementary school students.Scene (chapter) questions and a final test can be used to assess student understanding of the basic themes, characters, and vocabulary in A Christmas Carol, either during class discussion or as a personal assessment of understanding.See also the correlating character crowns available for
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3rd - 8th
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Christmas Play Script - The Grouch
A funny Christmas play that revolves around a town where everyone loves Christmas. In fact they love Christmas so much it is all they talk about! However, a mysterious outcast lives outside of the town; this outcast hates Christmas and anything to do with the festive time of year. This beast is called the Grouch!The play follows the story of Mary-Boo and her family as they open up to the Grouch, and try to show him what Christmas is all about. However, the Grouch has his own plans to ruin Christ
Grades:
4th - 8th, Staff
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Also included in: A Bundle of Five Christmas Play Scripts
Sherlock Holmes | The Blue Carbuncle | Readers Theater Script Short Story Unit
A fun holiday short story or drama theater lesson that improves students' reading and comprehension skills with a proven reading strategy. This Christmas mystery is adapted into a Readers Theater script for "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" based on the short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Google Slides Presentation, Readers Theater Script, writing exercise, discussion questions, vocabulary worksheets, and word search puzzle with answer key.**********
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5th - 12th
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CHRISTMAS PLAY! Goldilocks & The Christmas Elves
Get ready for a hilarious romp across the North Pole in this crazy, mixed-up fairy tale adventure, with an appealing, comical script for a Christmas performance play or a Readers’ Theater. Goldilocks wakes Sleeping Beauty and transports her to the North Pole, and what follows is a madcap adventure with lovable and memorable characters, including Santa Claus himself, and a engaging variety of Christmas Elves. There are 15 characters in this script, as outlined below. Note that elves can be added
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4th - 8th
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Emergency Sub Plans for Physical Science with Choice Board for Middle School
Looking for a quick and easy sub plan template? These sub plans provide 5 choices the substitute can choose from, can easily be implemented by a sub, and includes a choice board for students with 9 open ended choices. They are designed with the middle school student in mind and strictly comes as a Google Doc ™ so it can be edited to include your own personal details and information.What's Included?Teacher NotesSubstitute InformationEmergency Lesson Plan ChoicesClassroom Notes PageWebsite Evalua
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Christmas Play Script Hilarious Comedy "Christmas Idol" 14 - 23 parts
UPDATED! Includes tips for pandemic-time performances; revised parent letters! This Christmas Play script has been teacher tested and audience approved! Prepare to laugh! It's fun to act in, super fun to direct and hilarious to watch. It's suitable for all ages because of its whimsical flare. Kids love to act in this but teachers would love to act this out for the student body, as well. The script alone is 13 pages; part of a 41 page book that contains Director's Notes, Cast of Characters list w
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Christmas Play Scripts BUNDLE of 4!
The Twelve Days of Christmas - a humorous Christmas play
The Twelve Days of Christmas is a humorous play in which Maria, the recipient of daily gifts from her true love Jonathan, writes a thank you note for each new gift. However, their love is truly tested as the gifts keep arriving. Although his intentions may have been good, his choice of gifts was not. The humor builds with each new day to the point where Jonathan would have been much better off to have not sent gifts at all. The run time for this skit is about 10 minutes.The script for this play
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Christmas Comedy Drama Bundle - four Christmas plays
Readers Theater scripts: African American scientists & inventors
Nine African-American scientists/inventors (Benjamin Banneker, Mae Jemison, Patricia Bath, George Washington Carver, Dr. Mary Chinn, Lewis Latimer, Yvonne Cagle and Elijah McCoy, Patricia Bath) are featured in this collection of reader's theaters. They may be used in language arts, science or history class, adapted for a school wide program or even memorized and done, royalty free, as a stage play or video.Each interview is self-contained so students can be divided into groups to read and rehea
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Black History Month bundle (in person and remote)
Scripts: Space science reader's theaters (3 scripts, 13 writing prompts)
Space science package 1 includes 3 scripts and 13 writing prompts. This is part of the Earth and space science bundle.
Reader’s theater is an excellent way to teach science content while improving fluency, comprehension and giving students an opportunity to shine. While providing authentic reasons to read and reread, students can analyze characters, plots and other story elements in an interdisciplinary study of these topics.
President of the Solar System club -If the sun resigned, who woul
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4th - 8th
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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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Holiday Mindfulness Counseling Activities
These exercises are perfect for introducing mindfulness or during the holiday season as a supplemental activity to any mindfulness unit! Use in individual, group, or classroom settings. Use scripts in combination with labyrinths or use as separate activities. All clipart included is originally hand-drawn.This download includes: •3 holiday moment scripts (winter time in a park, holiday drive, holiday party) •3 holiday labyrinths •1 mindfulness tool worksheet •Directions and short lesson plan •
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5th - 8th
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Five French Christmas Plays Bundle (French Reader's Theatre)
This product entirely in French from Chez Nathalie is a series of five original Christmas plays.The titles and basic plot lines are the following:Où est Rodolphe ?: Rudolph disappears mysteriously on December 24th. Père Noël à la retraite: Chaos ensues in the North Pole after Santa announces his retirement.Le volodrome: A flying angel race is announced at the volodrome of Grelot. Who will win?Le château du pôle Nord: Gingerbread men come alive and disappear into the woods.La machine à jouets: A
Grades:
5th - 12th
Christmas Play/Program/Readers' Theater (Let's Celebrate the Savior)
I am so excited to be able to share this Christmas Play/Readers’ Theater with you. I wrote to use with my children at our local church, and I was so blessed at that time to have other churches in our area ask if they could use it as well. Little did I know that God had much bigger plans in mind–He would be using this play for His glory in churches and schools all around!
You will see interludes where our Kidz Choir performs songs in between each scene. We perform this play as a musical.
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K - 8th
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Game: The Will Murder Mystery activity/script & lesson plans
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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A Christmas Carol - A School Remix Play Script
This is a play script for A Christmas Carol, however it is a modern remake that is based in a school. The play script tells the story of a mean, old headmaster, Ebenezer Loops, who runs a dark and miserable school. The teachers are under-paid and over-worked, and the students are not allowed to smile or have fun.It is Christmas eve and his best worker, Bob Bamboo asks for the day off to spend time with his family, and sick child – Petite Pat. Loops almost refuses but decides to just dock his pay
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4th - 8th, Staff
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Also included in: A Bundle of Four Christmas Play Scripts
READERS THEATER CHRISTMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL SCRIPT: CHILLY THE SNOWMAN
This fun winter Readers’ Theater script introduces grades 5-8 students to the TRUE tale of a much loved Christmas character. A lot of fake news surrounds the legend of Frosty the Snowman - including his name - and this amusing script will reveal the real deal. In a merry morality tale, students will learn how Chilly, a cold-hearted snowman, transformed thanks to the kindness of an elf child. This humorous 10 page script (+ questions and seasonal activities) will give students practice in reading
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5th - 8th
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10 French Dialogues + Questions for Christmas (NOËL) - Speaking + Reading
Here are 10 French one-page Dialogues on CHRISTMAS for Reading and Speaking Practice, and a great NO PREP activity for the weeks leading up to Christmas holidays. These dialogues are an excellent literacy tool for comprehensible input as well as for distance learning.Recommended Proficiency Levels:As the holiday addition to my collection of one-page French dialogues, these Christmas dialogues are geared to an Early Intermediate/Intermediate level for students learning French as an additional lan
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4th - 11th, Adult Education
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Readers Theater scripts: 7 life science scripts
Seven life science reader's theater scripts. Part of the Life science bundle.
Includes how and why do reader's theater, plus a Power Point. All scripts are now available as .PDF and Word.doc)
Readers theater is an excellent way to teach science content while improving fluency, comprehension and giving students an opportunity to shine. While providing authentic reasons to read and reread, students can analyze characters, plots and other story elements in an interdisciplinary study of these
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4th - 9th
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