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Reader's Theater Script - Fairy Tale Mock Trial for the Wolf of 3 Little Pigs
Reader's Theaters are a fun way to get your kids reading. This fairy tale mock trial is for Alexander T. Wolf from the book The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. This reader's theatre script is a fun fractured fairy tale of the Three Little Pigs. This script is for upper elementary (3rd, 4th, & 5th). This is also available for use with Google Classroom™ and is included using TPT's new digital tool!After you download the resource, click the red Create Digital Activity button to get the di
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3rd - 5th
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Memorial Day/Veteran's Day Readers' Theater Script in Print and Digital Easel
Are you looking for an engaging reading activity to do to recognize Veterans Day or Memorial Day? My students LOVE Readers' Theaters so I decided to write my own Readers' Theater script that we can read as an entire class on Veterans Day.The script includes 27 parts. Therefore, it can be used as a whole class activity, or it can be used as a small-group activity (students are just awarded more parts!) If you have a slighter larger class, I have included ideas on how you could get a few extra par
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Readers' Theater BUNDLE: A set of 32 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
Veterans Day Program Script School Assembly or Class Activity to Honor Veterans
Are you planning a Veterans Day celebration for your school this year? This Veterans Day program script will help you get started as you plan your Veterans Day program.Our school's Veterans Day program has been my absolute favorite event of the year for over fifteen years!I have found that a program that celebrates Veterans is one of our favorite activities to bring together community members of all ages and students in our school. I have used this script at our school-wide Veterans Day progra
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Reader's Theater Fairy Tales - Mock Trial Readers Theatre Scripts Bundle
Are you looking for fun reader’s theater for your kids? These reader's theatre scripts are mock trials of your favorite fairy tales. These fractured fairy tales reader theaters will have your kids deciding if the villain is guilty or innocent. Save 20% off when you buy the whole bundle.These scripts are for upper elementary (3rd, 4th, & 5th) and are a spinoff of popular fairy tale villains.This is also available for use with Google Classroom™ and is included using TPT's new digital tool!Aft
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3rd - 5th
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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: Boston Tea Party
This is a great reader's theater script to introduce/reinforce the importance of the Boston Tea Party as a major event in our history leading to the American Revolution. In addition, it's great practice in the areas of expression and fluency. The following play script contains 23 individual parts, but can be easily adapted for a class of any size. I have ranked the parts by size (long, medium, short) in order to make it easier to differentiate parts for all levels of readers. In addition, I h
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: America Becomes a Nation: Reader's Theater Bundle for 4th Grade
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}
The Odyssey: A Collection of Reader's Theater Script-Stories
Are you looking for a more engaging way to teach the Odyssey? These five 40-minute script-stories bring Homer's epic to life by allowing your students to inhabit the classic characters. Although dialogue and touches of humor have been added to increase engagement, the adaption is incredibly faithful to the original epic.Included in this 73-page download are five script-stories and two handouts designed for grades 7-12:"Searching for Odysseus" (script-story)"On Calypso's Isle" (script-story)"In t
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7th - 12th
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Native American Readers' Myths and Legends Theater Scripts
Do you need an engaging way to study folktales, legends or Native Americans? Need a way to integrate literacy and social studies? Looking for more interesting texts for guided reading? These readers' theaters will help you with all the above. I have used these readers' theater scripts for the many years in my classroom as part of our Native American unit and guided reading groups. I have performed these scripts in the classroom for other classes and as plays at parent events. Why you will love t
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2nd - 5th
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
Christmas Around The World, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa Reader's Theatre and Activities
This super fun Christmas Around the World, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa Reader's Theatre will be a hit with your students!They will also learn a lot about other countries and their Christmas traditions. This pack has been updated on 11-4-15Please see Preview for a better look...Included are 28 child parts in this Reader’s Theatre Presentation-The parts tell the audience the traditions of their country from the point of view of a child. -Each country featured has two child parts. -Hanukkah and Kwanzaa pa
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2nd - 4th
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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
September 11th Reader's Theater and Close Reading Toolkit Grades 4-8
September 11, 2001 was a significant day in American history. I created this reader's theater toolkit in order to give my students my history of the event as well as allow them to deepen their understanding through research.This toolkit includes:• clear directions for easy implementation• CCSS covered both ELA and History R.H.6-8.4• 7-page, 12-character reader's theater script• reader response questions• context clue word work• an informational text with reader response questions for Close Read
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: ELA American History Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle for Big Kids
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}
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
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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Causes of the American Revolution Skits - Reader's Theater Dramatic Play Scripts
These Causes of the American Revolution skits will have your students laughing and having fun while learning about the historical events that led to the American Revolution. These 8 skits are quick and easy, and performances last around 5 minutes. Build fluency and confidence. Laughs are guaranteed! Your students will be asking you every day if there is a skit to perform. ✅ SAVE 20% on the Readers Theater BUNDLECauses of the American Revolution13 ColoniesEuropean Explorers Continue the learning.
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4th - 6th
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