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Seasonal science scripts
Animal Classification ELA and Science Unit, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade
Animal Classification (An ELA and Science Unit)These wonderful activities go along great with any animal unit. They are especially great to support and enhance your science lessons on animal groups. The reader theater scripts are two part scripts that focus on information about each animal group. There are 6 animal groups highlighted: mammals, reptiles, insects, fish, amphibians and birds. The students can take turns being the different animals, learn new vocabulary and work on their reading f
The Snowball Toss Reader's Theater Script and Activities for Grades 4-7
The Snowball Toss is a winter reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating winter themes into your language arts instruction.This 5-page, 11 character, high-interest realistic fiction passage is about a snowy recess in which the assistant principal's silly action leads to a student getting carried away and injuring another. The lesson students will take away is that "rules are made for a reason," and we as adults need to be rem
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
Reader's Theater Solar System Science Class Play Fluency Practice Solar System
Looking for a way to fit more into the school day? Save time by incorporating reading and science. This Solar System science play is an original script I wrote for my class as an end of the year performance for parents and students, but it may also be used as a high-interest space introduction or review! It's filled with lots of scientific information about the sun, moons, planets, and other space objects, but even better, it's full of humor and fun! Your 3rd - 6th grade students will LOVE this
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3rd - 6th
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End of the Year Reader's Theater Scripts
Fluency and comprehension are at the heart of upper grades reading instruction, and these reader’s theater plays for the end of the year have been carefully designed to review both! My students absolutely LOVE reader’s theater, and I love all the benefits they provide. I set out to create a set of Reader’s Theater that helps students practice their reading comprehension skills, gives them plenty of opportunity for oral reading fluency practice, and provides accountability to both the readers and
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Ultimate Bundle for Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Reader's Theater - Partner Plays for Advanced Readers {Spring Edition}
Reader's Theater - These plays can be used for centers, Language Arts activities, fluency practice, partner reading, etc.
Buy the Spring Reader's Theater Bundle and SAVE!
Or purchase them separately:
Spring Plays for Kinder Kids
Spring Plays for Beginning Readers
These plays are designed and created with advanced readers in mind. The font is smaller, there are no picture clues, and varied sentence structure is used without.
Ten plays are included. Each play is an original work created and
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Reader's Theater {Spring Bundle}
Seasonal Art & Craft Activities Megabundle Easy Step by Step Crafts + Writing
Are you in need of easy seasonal arts & crafts ideas for your primary classroom? This huge collection features 70+ simple craft projects (8 seasonal art activities for each month), including Spring and Earth Day, as well as printable worksheets!As a busy teacher myself, I know how difficult it can be to plan for art lessons. My goal in creating these units is to do all the work for you so that art will be easy to include in your weekly and monthly plans!Each project has been classroom tested
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1st - 3rd
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Back to School First Day Jitters Reader's Theater Script for Grades 4-8
First Day Jitters? If you love the back-to-school book First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg, your students will love performing the reader's theater script even more. Based on the events from the silly picture book, I have created a reader's theater and reading literature toolkit that BIG KIDS will love to perform in those first days of school.This First Day Jitters for BIG KIDS resource includes:• 2-page 4-character reader's theater script• context clue word work• reader response questions• po
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Also included in: Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
Reader's Theater Scripts for Beginning Readers {Winter Edition}
Reader's Theater Scripts - These plays can be used for centers, Language Arts activities, fluency practice, partner reading, etc.Buy the Winter Reader's Theater Bundle and SAVE!Or purchase them separately:Winter Plays for Kinder KidsWinter Plays for Advanced ReadersUPDATED! Ten NEW plays have been added with an easier to read font.These plays are designed and created with beginning readers in mind. Each play has large font, picture clues, and predictable sentence patterns. The new UPDATED plays
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Reader's Theater {Winter Bundle}
Social Story Making Green & Red Choices (Editable) Book Special Education PCS
Our Making Green and Red Choices social story is designed to help children learn about making positive choices in a simple, engaging, and visual way that makes the information easier to understand.With this social story, children will learn how to identify positive and negative choices through the use of the colors green and red. Green choices are positive and helpful, while red choices are negative and potentially harmful. This distinction is easy for children to understand and remember, making
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Social Stories Growing Bundle (52 Books) Special Education Autism PCS
Summer End-of-Year Summertime Readers Theater Poetry, Writing Prompts: Grade 3-6
Summer Readers' Theater Scripts and End-of-Year Activities for grades 3, 4, 5 & 6: 8-poem collection of fast and funny summertime poetry and literacy activities to launch 3rd-grade, 4th-grade, 5th-grade & 6th-grade students into summer vacation with fun, summer-themed readers' theater scripts, comprehension questions, writing prompts, and vocabulary word work.The 8 poems are provided as regularly formatted poems plus as 1- to 2-page stand-alone readers' theater scripts. Each poem also in
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3rd - 6th
Reader's Theater Scripts for Beginning Readers {Fall Edition}
Reader's Theater Scripts - These plays can be used for centers, Language Arts activities, fluency practice, partner reading, etc.These plays are designed and created with beginning readers in mind. Each play has large font, picture clues, and predictable sentence patterns. Ten plays are included. Each play is an original work created and written by A Teeny Tiny Teacher. All plays are two pages in length.Each play has two characters to encourage partnership and teamwork.Buy the Fall Reader's Thea
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Reader's Theater {Fall Bundle}
Graduation or End of the Year Celebration Program {"Dream Big"- Hollywood Theme}
Newest Graduation or End-of-the-Year Celebration Program. Roll out the red carpet for this adorable Hollywood Theme Celebration! The songs included in this unit are upbeat with original lyrics that I wrote. Included in the program are five songs, poems, and a total of twenty speaking parts. You choose how much of the program you want to use or you can perform the entire program. This program was written so you can modify it to fit your needs. It can be used as a graduation program or a celebrat
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K - 2nd
Trees Study Bundle for The Creative Curriculum
This Creative Curriculum Trees Study Digital & Print bundle features an array of visual supports, including Real Photos, and includes everything you need to keep your study organized and your students excited during each investigation. No more boring read-alouds, no more scrambling for your Questions of the Day. We even have your Investigation Questions and Vocabulary covered too. PLUS, this resource now includes a new real photos version. ⭐ Buy the Guided Edition of Trees Study Bundle here
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PreK
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Reader's Theater Scripts for Beginning Readers {Back to School}
Reader's Theater Scripts - These plays can be used for centers, Language Arts activities, fluency practice, partner reading, etc.These plays are designed and created with beginning readers in mind. Each play has large font, picture clues, and predictable word patterns. Ten plays are included. Each play is an original work created and written by A Teeny Tiny Teacher. All plays are two pages in length.Each play has two characters to encourage partnership and teamwork.If you are doing this as a
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Reader's Theater {Back to School Bundle}
Reader's Theater Scripts for Beginning Readers {Holiday Edition}
Reader's Theater Scripts - These plays can be used for centers, Language Arts activities, fluency practice, partner reading, etc.Buy the Holiday Reader's Theater Bundle and SAVE!Or purchase them separately:Holiday Plays for Kinder KidsHoliday Plays for Advanced ReadersThese plays are designed and created with beginning readers in mind. Each play has large font, picture clues, and predictable sentence patterns. However, this particular pack offers more of a challenge to beginning readers with add
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Reader's Theater {Holiday Bundle}
Winter Mindfulness Activity and Mindfulness Craft to Explore Calming Strategies
In this winter mindfulness activity, students will participate in a mindfulness exercise to explore the things that help them to calm their bodies when things feel out of control or chaotic! Use the mindfulness script included to lead students through the exercise and reflect on their experience of peace or calmness. Students then create a snow globe craft and identify things that help them feel calm. This includes a mindfulness script and cut and no-cut craft printables. This activity is perfec
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2nd - 4th
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Reader's Theatre: The Night Before Thanksgiving
I'm a huge fan of Reader's Theatre as a collaborative and fun disguised way to practice fluency, oral language, speaking skills and working together in a group. Perfect for a literacy center group activity. I wrote this script as a paired text with The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing. There are 5 roles and the script is 4 pages in length. The font is large enough for students to read. There are two versions of the same script included. A printer-friendly version that you can copy in
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Bundle of Mentor Text Reader's Theater 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
Reader's Theater {Spring Bundle}
This Reader's Theater Bundle is a 3 pack of Partner Plays {Spring Editions} so that you can easily differentiate for your learners. It includes ten plays for Kinder Kids, ten plays for Beginning Readers, and ten plays for Advanced Readers.
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K - 2nd
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Reader's Theatre: Stellaluna
I'm a huge fan of Reader's Theatre as a collaborative and fun disguised way to practice fluency, oral language, speaking skills and working together in a group. Perfect for a literacy center group activity. I wrote this script as a paired text with Stellaluna. There are 6 roles and the script is 6 pages in length. The font is large enough for students to read. There are two versions of the same script included. A printer-friendly version that you can copy in black, on white or colored card stock
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Bundle of Mentor Text Reader's Theater Scripts
Reader's Theatre: The Polar Express
I'm a huge fan of Reader's Theatre as a collaborative and fun disguised way to practice fluency, oral language, speaking skills and working together in a group. Perfect for a literacy center group activity. I wrote this script as a paired text with The Polar Express. There are 6 roles and the script is 6 pages in length. The font is large enough for students to read. There are two versions of the same script included. A printer-friendly version that you can copy in black, on white or colored
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Bundle of Mentor Text Reader's Theater Scripts
Reader's Theater - Partner Plays for Advanced Readers {End of the Year}
Reader's Theater - These plays can be used for centers, Language Arts activities, fluency practice, partner reading, etc.
Buy the End of the Year Reader's Theater Bundle and SAVE!
Or purchase them separately:
End of the Year Plays for Kinder Kids
End of the Year Plays for Beginning Readers
These plays are designed and created with advanced readers in mind. The font is smaller, there are no picture clues, and varied sentence structure is used without.
Ten plays are included. Each play is
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Reader's Theater {End of the Year Bundle}
Elements of Drama Reindeer Games Christmas Reader's Theater Common Core 4th 5th
I created "Reindeer Games" to teach my students about the elements of drama in a FUN way around the Christmas holiday! The script incorporates the fun of talking reindeer with teaching about inclusion and standing up to bullies. Think of it as an updated take on the classic "Rudolph" story. This resource provides everything you need to teach/review the drama genre to your students in the classroom, library, homeschool, drama club, or beyond!This BEST-SELLING product includes:Vocabulary Cards:
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4th - 5th
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Reader's Theater - Partner Plays for Advanced Readers {Winter Edition}
Reader's Theater - These plays can be used for centers, Language Arts activities, fluency practice, partner reading, etc.
Buy the Winter Reader's Theater Bundle and SAVE!
Or purchase them separately:
Winter Plays for Kinder Kids
Winter Plays for Beginning Readers
These plays are designed and created with advanced readers in mind. The font is smaller, there are no picture clues, and varied sentence structure is used without.
Ten plays are included. Each play is an original work created and
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Also included in: Reader's Theater {Winter Bundle}
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