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Drama Common Core RL.4.3 resources
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Readers Theater Script Point of View
Students of all ages enjoy “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,” and will love performing this clever Readers’ Theater play which takes place after the story ends. This script lets your students practice fluency in a fun, engaging way. All you have to do is print and get started! It's perfect for small groups, short weeks in between units, or for sub plans.Play features the wolf, 1 pig, and 3 news reporters. Your students will laugh at the banter between the characters as the wolf tries, y
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3rd - 6th
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Cyclops: The Monster in the Cave--Readers Theater from The Odyssey
Includes comprehension activity, key, and teacher notes! Liven up your reading curriculum and satisfy the Common Core with this kid-friendly classroom play based on the 9th book of Homer's The Odyssey. Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, "Cyclops" is suitable for reader's theater or stage performance. Use it to introduce the original text, build fluency, and improve comprehension. Pair it with a Percy Jackson novel as part of a literature circle! Or j
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5th - 9th
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Elements of Drama Unit Grades 3-5 CCSS Aligned
Bestseller! Great back to school unit! Perfect for distance and remote learning. Aligned with both Common Core and TEKS Standards for grades 3 - 5, this resource provides everything you need to teach the drama genre to your students in the classroom, library, homeschool, drama club, or beyond! Here's just an idea of how other teachers feel about this unit..."This was SUCH a great resource!! Saved me hours of prep and was easy to adapt to my needs! Thank you!""Lesson plans for my drama unit...do
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: ELA Elements Bundle - Drama, Poetry, and Mystery Genres
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
Aesop’s Fables Unit & Lesson Plans – Genre Study for 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
This fables unit offers a complete reading, writing, speaking, and listening experience! It includes lesson plans, 10 stories with comprehension questions, 7 plays, writing, and compare-contrast activities. You’ll have everything you need to teach your third, fourth, or fifth grade students. Open the preview to take a closer look at the components. Lesson PlansThree weeks of ELA lesson plans are ready to go! You may use them to guide your study of fables. (Open the bonus preview to see the plans
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3rd - 5th
Christmas Carol Reader's Theater Script & Activities RL3.1, RL3.2, RL4.1, RL5.1
~ Literature ~ Fluency ~ Common Core Aligned~~~ A Christmas Carol - Scrooge - Charles Dickens~~~This is a CCSS aligned readers’ theater or play for grades 3-5. This resource will assist your students with fluency/expression reading practice, comparing & contrasting characters, and sequencing story events.Included in this set is the following items:✔ age appropriate readers’ theater script/ can also be used for a play✔ character cards that can be made into puppets✔ a sequencing of events pri
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Christmas Carol Nutcracker Readers Theater Comprehension Bundle
Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Bundle Point of View
If you're looking for an engaging way to work on FLUENCY with your upper elementary students, this Fractured Fairy Tale Readers' Theater bundle is PERFECT! Explore three well-known fairy tales from the perspective/Point of View of different characters. These scripts and reading comprehension activities are perfect for small groups and can be used throughout the year with no prep for you. These also make great SUB PLANS! Scripts included in this Bundle:The True Story of the Three Little PigsHumpt
Read-Aloud Plays: Tale of Peter Rabbit Readers Theater
The last time my 5th graders performed this for our primary students, well, in 20 years of having kids produce plays, I've never seen a funnier play or a more engaged audience! This original read-aloud play uses Beatrix Potter's classic story to focus on peer pressure and character traits. It comes with the original text and three worksheets: vocabulary and grammar development, fact and opinion maze, and a compare and contrast exercise. The play is for from 7 to 11 students, depending on your ne
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3rd - 6th
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Fairy Tale Lesson Plan Bundle
This lesson plan bundle—one of my all-time favorite ELA units to teach—contains activities designed to generate enthusiasm and skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and performing. Read on for notes regarding grade level usage. And see the Preview for Table of Contents, Standards correlations, and sample materials.
Questions? Please contact me.
Email: love2teach2day@gmail.com
I hope you enjoy my favorite unit!
Cynthia
The unit bundle includes the following, totaling over 100 pages
Coyote Tales - Native American Reader's Theater
This package was intended for November which is Native American month but can be done at any time. My name is Melanie Whitesides but my store name is Wonbyone. One of the things I am passionate about is Reader's Theater. It is a fun way for my students to improve on their fluency. In a world where reading is pushed so hard on students that many are losing their love of reading it is IMPORTANT to give them opportunities to read that are fun. Reader's Theater does this. In this package I have plac
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Readers Theater Brain Teaser Mystery Script GRADES 3-4
This grades 3-4 Readers' Theater fun AND funny mystery script will give your students high interest practice in reading aloud, inferencing, making predictions and drawing conclusions. The Mystery of the Stolen Laptop brain teaser script makes your students into detectives, performing inference tasks to solve clues. If you have a class that dislikes anything they perceive as "babyish", this amusing script, with its relevant modern characters, will get a thumbs-up! Drama and ELA fun! Question she
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3rd - 4th
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Martin Luther King, Jr.--Three Powerful Reader's Theaters!
Do you want your students to have a thorough understanding of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and accomplishments! Then...THIS is the product for you! Three scripts- "Young Martin", "Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement," as well as "Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington" complete this fine product. Each Reader's Theater builds upon previous events and uses examples, photographs, and illustrations to clearly explain the importance of Dr. King to the history of
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3rd - 6th
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Readers Theater Scary Mystery Script - GRADES 3-4 Making Inferences
This grades 3-4 Readers' Theater fun mystery script will give your students high interest practice in reading aloud, inferencing, making predictions and drawing conclusions. The Mystery of the Haunted House will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve three major clues. The script is intended for about 9 students but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded depending on how many groups you wish to have. If you have a class that dislikes any
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3rd - 4th
Elements of Drama Matching Sheet
This a matching sheet with the following elements of drama and their definitions:act, scene, actors, cast, director, protagonist, antagonist, narrator, dialogue, costume, set, props, stage directions, theme I also have a slide show to help introduce these terms.https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elements-of-Drama-Slide-Show-5040198
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3rd - 8th
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Two Ancient Chinese New Years Myths: The Race of the Animals & The Tale of Nian
Are you ready to teach your students all about Chinese New Year? These two wonderful Reader's Theaters will help the children in your class to understand the myth behind the traditions of the New Year, as well as the animals and their position on the Chinese Zodiac calendar. The Race of the Animals and The Tale of Nian are written in kid friendly language and will help you to integrate social studies with both language arts and reading. Your students will practice and develop both their flue
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3rd - 6th
Betsy Ross: Fact or Fiction? U.S. History Reader's Theater
The history of the flag of the United States is a compelling story, but historians are divided as to the facts. Did Betsy Ross really create the first flag? This play, which was originally published in my book, Read Aloud Plays: Symbols of America, and later reprinted in the January 2002 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine, encourages readers to become history sleuths. It includes the play script, a short reading supplement, a bubble quiz, a comprehension activity built around William Canb
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4th - 7th
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Readers Theater End of Year Mystery Scripts Grades 3-4 - Two Scripts + Questions
Both of these Readers’ Theater end of year fun mystery scripts for grades 3-4 provide high interest lessons in the last few days of the school year. Your students reading aloud, comprehension, critical thinking and writing skills will receive a B-I-G boost. Perfect for performances too! All of this, AND giggles guaranteed fun- phew! If you have a class that dislikes anything they perceive as "babyish", these amusing scripts, with their relevant modern characters, will get a thumbs-up. -- Questio
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: End of Year Activities and Games Grades 3-4 - ELA Brain Teaser Fun!
Four Fabulous Christmas Folktales from Around the World! (Reader's Theaters)
Are your students learning about Christmas customs and traditions from around the world? Then THIS is the product for you! It contains four fabulous folktales from different countries--Germany, France, Bulgaria, and Norway! These folktales include challenging vocabulary words and plenty of parts, so that all students can be actively involved in the Reader's Theater experience! A great way for students to increase their comprehension and fluency while learning about social studies concepts! Yo
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3rd - 6th
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Theater Point of View
Experience a "twist" on the Three Billy Goats Gruff story by learning about the Troll's perspective in this witty Readers' Theater play and reading comprehension unit! Students will enjoy the script and review key reading and writing skills. ** This product is part of a bundle: check it out HERE!Students will enjoy reading (and acting out) this fun story. There are 6 parts, making this perfect for small groups. After reading the play, engage your students in a variety of reading and writing acti
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Bundle Point of View
TALL Tales Readers Theaters: Wild Women of the Old West!
There's NO doubt about it! Readers Theaters are an excellent way to make students WANT to read and ENJOY reading! This product contains four readers theaters about Wild Women of the Old West--Annie Oakley, Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Slue Foot Slue, and Calamity Jane!! These plays are written in kid friendly language using an old west dialect that helps kids to create characters while they perform in front of the class developing fluency and expression skills at the same time!Also inclu
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2nd - 5th
Elements of Drama Vocabulary Posters and Charts with Pictures
Are you looking for drama elements posters to use during your drama unit for your students to reference in your classroom? These easy to read and engaging drama vocabulary posters are exactly what you need!This set of posters includes a definition and visual. Differentiated student notebook pages are included to use while teaching or as a reference for later.What's Included?Color versions2 different black and white versions3 differentiated Drama Elements student notebook pagesPosters IncludedPla
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Reading Vocabulary Posters and Charts - ELA Reading Word Wall BUNDLE
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen readers theater
This script includes chapters 1 & 2 of Hatchet where the main character is in the plane. It leaves a cliffhanger so readers will want to read more. There are 20 narrator parts and three character parts.
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Gary Paulsen books Readers Theater Bundle
Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh Readers Theater
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation script has 5 narrators and 15 character parts. The readers will be engaged as they follow the plot of how the family takes their case to court.
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2nd - 7th
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Elements of Drama Digital Learning Stations
This is a google product. You will need to make a copy to your own drive. The wording on each slide is completely editable. These are digital learning stations embedded with links and videos to teach Elements of Drama: What is drama?, Cast of Characters, Setting, Dialogue, Stage Directions, and Acts and Scenes. I would set these up with pairs or small groups with a computer and allow them to work through this at their own pace. Alternatively, you could set up 5 computers around the room and have
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3rd - 5th
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