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The New Year earth sciences scripts
The Rock Cycle Reader's Theater
A fun way to act out the rock cycle! This reader's theater contains 20 speaking parts that explain the process that a rock goes through in the rock cycle. Students will not only be able to define sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks but they will also learn science vocabulary such as weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation, sediment, intrusive, extrusive, mantle, magma, and lava. Each word is defined in the script. Students will also review examples of each type of rock i
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3rd - 6th
Happy New Year: A Readers' Theater Script with 3 Comprehension Worksheets
If you want an engaging activity to welcome your students back to school in January (or right before you let them loose for the holiday break in December!), check this out! It is a reader's theater script written for fifteen characters. The main idea of the Reader's Theater is recognizing how New Year's is celebrated in various parts of the world. Most of the characters have names that can be used with boys and girls alike, making it easy to assign parts.Each character has at least two speaking
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Readers' Theater BUNDLE: A set of 32 Scripts
Earth's Rotation and Revolution Reader's Theater
This script allows students to perform and act out the rotation and revolution of Earth. The reader's theater explains the day and night cycle, the difference between rotate and revolve, and the causes of the seasons.
Some ideas are to have your students form small groups to perform for other students. Have them create props, a background, add silly voices... anything to help them comprehend! Kids love acting!
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3rd - 6th
Chinese New Year Readers Theater Script - Lunar New Year - The Great Race
No prep necessary! This Chinese New Year Reader's Theater script tells the mythological story of "The Race for the Zodiac." It's fun and easy way to introduce middle grade students to an important Chinese New Year legend. Includes 16 speaking parts. Just print and go!As an American expat living in Shanghai, I love Chinese New Year and have really enjoyed creating activities to go with this granddaddy of all Chinese holidays. "The Race for the Zodiac" story is famous here in China because it tell
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Chinese New Year Activity Bundle - Lunar New Year Research - 2024 Update
January ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
This collection of January and New Year's activities includes the perfect standards-based resources to engage your students on their return from winter break. Use these print-and-go resources to give your students practice reading to self, reading to someone, listening to reading, word work, and writing—all centered around the seasonal themes of January!This January ELA Bundle includes:• New Year's Close Reads for BIG KIDS• Martin Luther King Jr. Informational Text Task Cards• Martin Luther King
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4th - 7th
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The Water Cycle Reader's Theater
This reader's theater allows students to act out and perform the water cycle! Includes 14 speaking parts with vocabulary words such as evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, groundwater, and runoff.
Some ideas are to have your students form small groups to perform for other students. Have them create props, a background, add silly voices... anything to help them comprehend! Kids love acting!
Check out my Science Reader's Theater Bundle and other Science Reader's Theaters:
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3rd - 6th
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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Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources Reader's Theater and Debate
This product includes several activities to help your students gain understanding about the different between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
The reader's theater is a fun way to bring science, reading, and drama together. Students will learn the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources and how they power our homes and schools. Students will also hear the benefits and downsides to both resources, learn about alternative energy, and discover ways to conserve energy.
This p
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4th - 6th
Science Lessons PowerPoint Slides and Note Taking Graphic Organizers Bundle
Are you looking for science lessons that are visual and informational? These PowerPoint presentation slides cover 12 different primary science topics. They will include a PowerPoint, a teacher script, and student note-taking pages.A quick introduction:You’ll display your slide, read the teacher's script for that given slide, and allow students to take notes. Please check out the preview for a closer look at how to use this!What's included in each zip file product:Read-Me First IntroductionPowerP
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2nd - 3rd
Science Readers' Theater about Rock Cycle and Rock Types
From my personal experience teaching elementary grades, there is never enough time for reading or science. This lesson integrates science content into a way for students to practice fluency and reading skills. It not only has science vocabulary about the rock cycle and the 3 main types of rocks (sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic) but also uses challenging everyday words for students to learn. This script is formatted as a TV infomercial for rocks with the purpose of persuading the audience t
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3rd - 6th
Weather Map Project- STEM Meteorology
PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING!This is *NOT* a "no prep" activity. It requires a green screen, if used in the way photos appear, and the downloading of an app from an Iphone. In addition, there are other item like a tripod I suggest you purchase to complete this. It also requires at least two hours of time on the teacher's part to prepare your students for this activity. However, it is completely worth the time and money. This took my students about three days (one hour each day) to complete, aft
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3rd - 8th
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MS-ESS2-4
, MS-ESS2-5
, 4-ESS2-2
Chinese New Year Readers' Theater
The Chinese New Year is a fun celebration to teach young children about and what better way than by incorporating reading, science, writing and social studies!
These 16 fiction and non-fiction plays provide great fluency practice and connections to science and social studies.
* Nian the Terrible Monster (fiction, 5 pages, 6 characters)
* The Great Race (fiction, 4 pages, 7 characters)
* Chinese New Year (non-fiction, 4.5 pages, 5 characters)
* All About the Moon (non-fiction, 3 pages, 4 cha
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1st - 3rd
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3 Growth Mindset Reader's Theaters - New Year's Resolutions
This is a super exciting resource that will help your students:Discover what a New Year's Resolution is and how to set one of their ownBuild 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
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: Reader's Theater MEGA Bundle for Grades 2-4
Science Readers' Theater about Volcanoes and Earthquakes
From my personal experience teaching elementary grades, there is never enough time for reading or science. This lesson integrates science content about two forces that shape the earth, earthquakes and volcanoes, into a way for students to practice fluency and reading skills through a newscast format. It not only has science vocabulary but also new everyday words for students to learn. This script can be used for a variety of purposes. There are also question sheets for discussion or pair work an
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3rd - 5th
Readers' Theater Script: Reading-Science, Sun, Moon, Earth, Lots Of Activities
Reading And Science Integration: Best Friends Forever (The Sun, The Moon, The Earth, The Water Cycle)Reading/Science Integration: Activities To Be Used In Small Groups, Centers, Or Teacher Table.This script will talk about: The Water CycleOcean TidesCharacteristics of the Sun, Moon and Earth.Relationship between the Sun, the Moon and the EarthMoon FacesFull Package includes:CoverIntroductionCommon Core Standards (Reading, Listening, Science)9 pg Script Highlighted In Color9 pg Script B&W (S
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3rd - 5th
Dr. Seuss Reader's Theatre Bundle: Lorax, Horton, Grinch, Oh,Places
Start the New Year in your classroom with this Dr. Seuss Reader's Theatre bundle. The bundle includes: The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, Oh, the Places You'll Go! and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.Your lower/struggling students will gain confidence and start the year engaged. All students will practice fluency, presentation skills, and oral speaking. Reader's Theatre is my all-time favorite reading activity for the classroom, and the New Year is the perfect time. Students will love the active read
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2nd - 5th
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New Teacher New Year Social Story
Social story about preparing a child for a new teacher and new classroom. The book contains spaces to fill in the name of the new teacher and other details to personlise the book to the specific child. You can either write in the details you want to add yourself or you can email me at: info@senresourcesource.co.uk and let me know the additions you want and I will do this for you.The point of a social story is to use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a w
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Also included in: HUGE growing social stories bundle
Reader's Theater: The Rock Cycle (4th-6th grade)
Reinforce the steps of the rock cycle in this funny, fictional reader’s theater! Students in grades 3-5 will be engaged as they observe Little Iggy going through the entire rock cycle from start to finish! The quick wit of the script will have students laughing but at the same time reviewing key facts about igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, glaciers, weathering, erosion, lava eruptions, cementation, and so much more! Containing 15 parts, EVERYONE will become involved with practi
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4th - 6th
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MS-ESS2-1
, 4-ESS2-1
The Life Cycle of a Sunflower Seed to Plant, Reader's Theater Script; Level 1
The Life Cycle of a Seed Reader's Theater script Level 1Bring your science standards to life with this engaging Reader's Theater play designed to help your students learn about the life cycle of a sunflower seed. This fun script reinforces reading skills, science standards, science vocabulary, fluency, and speaking and listening skills. Students will learn how a sunflower seed needs water, sunlight, and soil to grow and what each stage of the plant life cycle looks like, starting and ending with
The Great Kapok Tree Readers Theater - Cause and Effect
I have included the lesson plan with the readers' theater, so all you have to do it print and enjoy!
I used this Readers’ Theater with my fourth graders. It was a springboard into our BIG IDEA topic of Environments, and it also led to great conversation about cause and effect.
We know that cause and effect is a HUGE concept for students to master, especially in the sciences. The Next Generation Science Standards (“NGSS”) call this a cross cutting concept. This means it, in terms of NGSS, th
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4th - 7th
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Emergency Sub Plans for Earth Science with Choice Board
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
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Emergency Sub Plans with Choice Boards Bundle for Middle School
Reduce Reuse Recycle Readers Theatre Script
This brief (1.5 pages long) script on REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE involves students in reading and reviewing information about reducing waste and conserving the environment. The script incorporates humor and contemporary language and references. It appears in my book DRAMATIZING THE CONTENT WITH CURRICULUM-BASED READERS THEATRE, originally published by The International Reading Association. When the book went out of print, all rights were reverted to me, so I decided to offer this script on Teachers Pa
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2nd - 4th
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The Rock Cycle Partner Play, Fluency Activity, Paired Reading
Partner plays are a great way to work on fluency, reading comprehension, and key content areas all at the same time. This partner play focuses on The Rock Cycle, a fifth grade science standard in Virginia and other states. The three rock types are included in a real life story about scientists exploring rocks in a geological dig. HOW CAN TEACHERS USE THIS ROCK CYCLE RESOURCE?This partner play was developed to support students who needed reading intervention AND support with science concepts. It
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2nd - 4th
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The Life Cycle of a Sunflower Seed to Plant, Reader's Theater Script; Level 2
The Life Cycle of a Seed Reader's Theater scriptLevel 2Bring your science standards to life with this engaging Reader's Theater play designed to help your students learn about the life cycle of a sunflower seed. This fun script reinforces reading skills, science standards, science vocabulary, fluency, and speaking and listening skills. Students will learn about the different stages a sunflower seed goes through starting with the seed and ending with the mature sunflower plant that gets pollinate
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