Reader's Theater for Grades 4-8: The Cafeteria Catastrophe-A CCSS Pack
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No Prep-Print and Go Reader's Theater Script and Comprehension Activities!
The Cafeteria Catastrophe is an evergreen reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating high-interest stories into your language arts instruction. This 11 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!
This 18-page fun pack includes:
• 11-character, 9-page reader's theater script
• Context Clue Word Work to enhance vocabulary
• Reader Response Questions to check for comprehension
• Summary Organizer for Interactive Notebooks
• Clear directions for immediate classroom use
• CCSS covered through student work
Estimated Lexile Measure is 770.
Reader's theater scripts are an essential tool for middle grade language arts. I use them regularly to enhance fluency, increase student engagement, and sharpen our reading comprehension skills.
If you are looking for a high-interest, realistic fiction, common core focused script with vocabulary work, reader response questions, graphic organizer, and a summary answer key, this is the perfect product for your classroom!
Utilize this 9-page, 11-character readers theater script in one class period, or over a week to allow your students more opportunities to enhance their abilities as fluent readers, responders to text, and summarizers.
The Cafeteria Catastrophe is about a student that is planning to run for student body president of her school's student council, but makes a bad choice by stealing from the school's cafeteria which results in a few undesirable consequences.
Your middle school readers will love the chance to transform into the characters and determine what happens to Clara.
Also, a perfect teaching/learning tool to utilize with a substitute teacher to keep your students engaged while you are out of the classroom!
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