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Middle school informational text scripts $5-10
Reader's Theater: The American Revolutionary War (differentiated script)
Experience life as a Patriot or Redcoat soldier during the key events and battles of the American Revolutionary War! The war is brought to life in this whole class reader’s theater based on 4th grade Ohio Social Studies standards! This 9 page script features the following: Paul Revere’s midnight ride, the shot heard ‘round the world, Ethan Allen & Green Mountain Boys, the battle of Bunker Hill, Crossing the Delaware, Valley Forge, the Battle of Yorktown, the Treaty of Paris, and much mor
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Ohio 4th Grade Reader's Theater Mega Bundle!
Reader's Theater: Branches of Government (intermediate grades)
Students will bring the 3 branches of our government to life in this whole class script of We the People! The fast moving script reviews the roles and responsibilities of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches in a fun, relaxed way! This original play contains 24 parts featuring various reading levels to ensure whole class participation, differentiation, and engagement. Students will integrate important Social Studies concepts with key LA common core standards such as fluency and ex
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: America Becomes a Nation: Reader's Theater Bundle for 4th Grade
Reader's Theater: The Constitution-United We Stand! (leveled script)
Students will bring the development of the United States Constitution to life in this whole class reader’s theater based on 4th grade Ohio Social Studies standards! Students will gain a deeper understanding of the different state’s viewpoints in a connected and engaging way! This original play contains 22 parts featuring 3 reading levels to ensure whole class participation, fluency development, and differentiation. In addition, 14 name tags are included to make a class presentation of this pla
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Ohio 4th Grade Reader's Theater Mega Bundle!
Reader's Theater Script + Lessons Engaging Melodrama for Middle & High School
Readers' Theatre is captivating and fun for junior high and secondary students and this lesson packet with "Curses, Foiled Again" will not disappoint! Packet includes original script with 45 pages of engaging lesson materials your students will want to study. . This product is also available in my Students' Choice Favorite Lessons, Vol. 2. Check it out - it's a great deal!With this purchase, you will receive BOTH the original play and lesson materials for a cross-curricular history and ELA expe
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: End of the Year ELA Lessons Students Love Bundle - Middle & High School
California Gold Rush Readers' Theater
Magic Trunk Series: Your students will have fun as they learn about the Gold Rush through readers' theater. Included is a partner game, "Panning for Gold" and an Internet Scavenger Hunt. Check out the Preview!
Check out the other readers' scripts in the Magic Trunk Series: Boston Tea Party, Oregon Trail, Civil War, Lewis and Clark, Underground Railroad, and the First Thanksgiving.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Reader's Theater: An Age of Exploration! (intermediate leveled reading scripts)
Help students bring the Age of Exploration to life with this 24 part, differentiated reader’s theater! This fast moving script re-enacts several key explorers who discovered North America and helps students connect to our country’s history in an engaging and involved way! This original play contains 24 parts featuring various reading levels to ensure whole class participation, differentiation, and engagement. Students will integrate important Social Studies concepts with key LA common core st
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Ohio 4th Grade Reader's Theater Mega Bundle!
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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Reader's Theater: Famous Ohio Inventors! (intermediate leveled reading scripts)
Help bring Ohio Social Studies and the topic of famous inventors alive for students with this intermediate leveled reader’s theater! This fast moving, entertaining script introduces 7 famous inventors and their well-known innovations. Mnemonic devices and little tricks are provided throughout this 7 page play to help students make connections between key names and events. This original play contains 18 parts featuring various reading levels to ensure whole class participation, differentiation,
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Ohio 4th Grade Reader's Theater Mega Bundle!
Reader’s Theater Pack: Factors Influencing Westward Movement
Reader’s Theater Pack: Factors Influencing Westward Movement
This Reader’s Theater Pack features 6 scripts that focus on the factors that influenced western migration during this period of US expansion.
Factors focused on include:
Population growth in eastern states
Availability of cheap, fertile land
Economic opportunity (including the Gold Rush)
Cheaper and faster transportation (trains, steamboats, canals)
Knowledge of the Overland Trails (Santa Fe and Oregon Trails)
Manifest Destiny
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4th - 12th
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Reader's Theater: The Battle over Ohio (Northwest Territory)
The Northwest Territory in Ohio became a battleground between the Native Americans and pioneers in this intermediate level Reader’s Theater. Famous names such as Tecumseh, Fallen Timbers, and Mad Anthony Wayne are some of the characters and events brought to life in this integrated social studies activity. This original play contains 18 parts featuring various reading levels to ensure whole class participation, differentiation, and engagement. Students will integrate important Social Studies
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Early Ohio History Activity Bundle for 4th Grade Social Studies
The California Gold Rush And You
With only a few pages in the text book devoted to the California Gold Rush, you know your students aren’t getting a real feel for this exciting time in U.S. history. This interactive unit — The California Gold Rush and You — has 40 pages of information and illustrations. The unit includes a slide show with 27 slides and a 10-page script with more than 100 bulleted points. Five interactive slides spaced throughout the presentation will ask your students to take notes about • the journey alon
Grades:
4th - 8th
Journey to Bethlehem: The Historical Journey
If your school allows you to focus on the religious aspects of Christmas, here is a great slide show for you. “Journey to Bethlehem: The Historical Journey” tells how Joseph and Mary made their way from Nazareth to Bethlehem. Along the way, your students will learn about:their home in Nazareththe census that necessitated their journeythe route they tookthe landscapes they would have walked throughwhether they walked or rode a donkey or used a cartthe dangers and the hardships they would have enc
Grades:
4th - 8th, Adult Education
The Erie Canal and You
The Erie Canal was an exciting and pivotal time in U.S. history. But most textbooks only devote a couple of pages to it, so your students are not getting a real feel for the men who built and worked along the canal. This unit — “The Erie Canal and You” — has 65 pages of information and illustrations including five challenges for your students to write journal entries as though they were workers on the Erie Canal. The unit includes a slide show with 44 slides and a 17-page script with 170 bul
Grades:
4th - 8th
Persuasive Advertising Techniques Readers Theatre Scripts
This product contains 4 brief (each is only one-and-a-quarter to one-and a half pages long) Language Arts scripts plus an Introduction script, a Closing script, and a Script Template. These Persuasive Advertising Techniques scripts provide information on ways that advertisers use to convince people to buy products and services. Please see page 2 of the Preview for a more in-depth explanation of the content of this product.
The text of the scripts appears in a 2-column format. (A look at the Pre
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4th - 6th
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Readers Theater Presidents Middle School
Presidents Readers Theater for High School and Middle School. Part Three. 8-10 minute play, with presidents FDR, Truman and Eisenhower. Five roles in all, with 10 written questions for the class. Entertaining, back-and-forth and fact-based. Covers key events of each president. By teacher and playwright John Glass.
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Presidents Readers Theater Bundle for Middle and High School
Dr. Barbie Saves the Day Reader's Theatre Script -Safety Gear Questions
Dr. BarbieWe saw a lot of skating injuries this week. I wonder what’s going on. Nurse TeresaRoller skating seems to be more popular than ever. Dr. BarbieIt sure is, but the safety part of skating doesn’t seem to be popular. It is a great way to have fun, but roller skating can be dangerous. I hate seeing so many of my patients getting hurt.Included in the Dr. Barbie Saves the Day Reader's Theatre Unit:*38 page script/story11 characters + the narrator*14 True or False Safety Gear Questions (with
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5th - 7th
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Text Structure: Teach and Practice
Engage your students with this text structure teach and practice resource! Begin with "Wheel of Structure," a Reader's Theater script modeled after the famous game show. Next, take students through the slides presentation as they fill in the blanks on the notetaking guide. Now play the game by answering questions and spinning the wheel on the slides to earn points. For extra practice and assessment, a worksheet and key are also included. Text structures included- chronological order, cause and e
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5th - 8th
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Reader's Theater The Story of John Philip Sousa - Great 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 - 6th
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Interviews with History-Biographies; Reading, Writing, Speaking
Your students have never written biographies like this! Bring your historical figures to life!This product includes:Research writingGenerating questionsWriting introductionsCreating introductionsScript writingPublic speaking opportunitiesTechnology productionChoice Board with assignmentsBlank Choice BoardIf you would prefer, I can share a google doc with you for editing purposes to meet your individual needs.This product pairs well with a wondering product from Materials from McKenna.You can fi
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2nd - 6th
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Non-Fiction Language Arts -Living Dragons
COMPLETE Reading and Writing Test Prep. Everything you need to teach the lessons. Grade Levels: 4-7 31 Pages 5-Days
Writing Process,
SKILLS: Compare and Contrast, Reading for Details, Main Idea and Supporting Details.
STRATEGIES: scripted lessons with an ample amount of modeling and scaffolding
MATERIALS: Pre-writing Organizers, Checklists, Editing Key, Special First Draft Paper, as-well-as, Final Draft Papers. Rubric (+ Acceptable Rubric Responses) Maps, Rainfall Map an
Grades:
4th - 7th
Vitamins! - A Life Science Play
“Vitamins!” is a short life science play defining vitamins and introducing basic nutritional principles related to normal mealtime diet. Playscript contains full set, stage, costume directions along with useful staging tips.
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3rd - 8th
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Jack And The Hidden City Of Treasure
The best adventure story for children that inculcate values of friendship, honesty and love.
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5th - 8th
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K-ESS3-2
Radiolab- Morality Episode Transcript
Engage students in rich discussions around Morality using Radiolab's Morality episode and this transcript to guide students' listening. The transcript is 21 pages and can be used in a variety of fashions in the classroom- to find evidence to support arguments in classroom discussions, for re-reading and deepening understanding, for extracting vocabulary.
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7th - 12th
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"Get Me Information, Please!" - A Technology Play
“Get Me Information, Please!” is a short technology play highlighting sources of information about current events with discussion about how news is gathered, processed and distributed via major print and broadcast media. Playscript contains full set, stage, costume directions along with useful staging tips.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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