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1st grade Spring 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
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}
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 Theater - Partner Plays for Kinder Kids {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 Beginning Readers
Spring Plays for Advanced Readers
These plays are designed and created with Kinder Kids 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
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Reader's Theater {Spring Bundle}
Plants: Science Reader's Theater and Experiments
Combine some Science with your Language Arts. This is a readers’ theater script plus 7 experiments explaining what a seed needs to grow and what each part of the plant does. The script is 4 pages with 8 parts and is particularly useful for early readers as it has parts suitable for Emergent and Transitional Readers as follows:High Emergent (roughly levels 6-8): RainTransitional (roughly levels 10-12): Seed, Sun, Roots, LeavesHigh Transitional (roughly levels 14-16): Soil, Stem, NarratorThere ar
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K - 2nd
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Chickens - Little Red Hen - Chicken Little - first grade - second grade
This chicken unit is packed full of fun and engaging activities for your students. This unit includes the life cycle of a chicken activities and facts on chickens along with two plays featuring The Little Red Hen and Chicken Little. ELA ACTIVITIESLittle Red Hen and Chicken Little PlaysA 5 part play featuring the Little Red Hen story. A 7 part Chicken Little play. Included are necklaces or props of each character. Simply add a craft stick to the back of the characters and they will be all ready f
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1st - 3rd
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STEM Seasonal BUNDLE - 30 Projects with Partner Plays STEM + Writing Spring
Kids love STEM, and these seasonal STEM activities integrate literacy through simple partner plays! Each challenge features a fun project, making it easy to explore STEM throughout the year in your integrated literacy program for kindergarten and first grade. This full year BUNDLE features 30 partner plays and 5 seasonal themes, including Easter, Spring and more! What is STEM?STEM involves:★ presenting students with an authentic problem★ challenging students to collaborate for possible solutions
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1st - 3rd
What Not to Give Your Mom on Mother's Day -- A Reader's Theater with Headbands
Your students will love this Reader's Theater! This is such a cute book by Martha Simpson, and the kids are given some very funny examples of what not to give their mothers for Mother's Day! This Reader's Theater has roles for three students, but it adapts easily to include more. You may even want to give each student in class a line!Necklaces/headbands are included, and the script comes in a color-coded version, too! This would be perfect if you are having a Mother's Day tea or some other t
Reader's Theater Play Script: The Velveteen Rabbit
Children will enjoy performing the beloved tale "The Velveteen Rabbit." Originally written by Margery Williams, this script version includes eight speaking parts in the three scene play that tells the story of how love created the magic that brought a rabbit to life.Reader's Theater helps to develop fluency, increase comprehension, engage students, increase reading motivation, create confidence, provide an authentic purpose for reading, and provide opportunities for cooperative learning. Fle
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1st - 4th
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
Science Discussion Starters
Science Scaffolds for Discussion
This product includes 11 science discussion starter posters.
Black&White + Color Included
When scientists share their ideas, they may say ...
I noticed ____.
My data shows ____.
I think ___ because ___.
I wonder ___.
I observed ____.
When scientists respond to others, they may say ...
Can you explain to me?
What do you think?
What evidence do you have?
Are you saying _____?
I agree with ___ because ____.
I respectfully disagree because ____.
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K - 8th
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Reader's Theater Plays Spring 2 Parts
Are you looking for reader's theater plays for young and emergent readers with a spring theme? This resource includes 12 partner plays! Great for literacy stations, reading groups, and more. Perfect for reading fluency and expression practice! These reader's theater scripts are full of short and simple sentences with lots of decodable and high frequency words.Each play includes...Two pages (perfect to copy front to back)Two parts/charactersLarge, easy-to-read fontSimple picturesIncludes 12 play
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Partner Plays 2 Parts Year Long Bundle
Readers' Theater: The Life Cycle of the Frog
This non-fiction Readers' Theater play will help your students improve their fluency (pace, smoothness, expression) AND learn some science at the same time!
More details:
-2.5 pages
-characters: narrator, kid, egg, tadpole, froglet, frog
-Comprehension Check quiz
-Draw & Label the life cycle worksheet
-Write about the life cycle pages
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K - 3rd
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Spring Reader's Theater Scripts EDITABLE
These Spring Reader's Theater scripts are a practical and engaging way to have younger students practice reading fluently with expression, rate, phrasing, accuracy and using punctuation. Included in this resource:3 different scripts (10 pages per script) with varying levels of text difficulty (use a single script or all three!)Each script includes 8 roles Printable props in color and black and white (1 for each role, just glue onto wooden craft sticks)Pre-reading vocabulary definedYour download
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Readers Theater Short Play Winter Spring Summer Fall Scripts
33 Animal Riddles–Readers Theater Partner Plays–Fluency–Listening Skills
33 Animal Riddles Readers Theater Partner Plays with Flexi-Curric™ *33 Original Readers Theatre Scripts by Carol Montgomery (updated January 2017)TIME: Each script takes about 30 seconds to read.
CAST: 2+, or 2 CHORAL groups
TONE: light, game-like
READABILITY: grades K to 1+ * Our Flexi-Curric™ shortcut allows flexible, cross-curricular options for your local standards because YOU know what’s right for YOUR students. What could you do with 33 different animal riddles Reade
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K - 2nd
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Weather and Seasons Readers Theater Set 1
Enjoy and learn from these Reader's Theater scripts about seasons, hurricanes, tornadoes and weatherSet #1 is Weather and SeasonsThere are 4 scripts in this set.The Four Seasons:What’s Your Favorite Season Group Graphing Activity (includes bar graph and tally marks recording sheets)1 full script in black and white with Character Cards1 full script in color with Character Cards with a girl narrator1 full script in color with Character Cards with a boy narratorHurricanes1 graphic organizer to reco
Kids Weather Report template
Become a meteorologist and create your own weather report. This is a fill in the blank template page geared for elementary age kids. I have also included a completely blank template for kids to rewrite their report or come up with their own phrases to use when talking about the weather.This template encourages children to write about types of weather, clothing appropriate for the day, city in which they live (or are reporting the weather from) temperate in degrees F or C, day of the week, and ty
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K - 5th
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Seasonal STEM with Partner Plays - SPRING STEM
SEASONAL STEM - SPRING with PARTNER PLAYS
These quick and easy STEM Challenges will make it SIMPLE to explore STEM in your classroom, while incorporating literacy through fun PARTNER PLAYS to set up each challenge!
Each STEM challenge is introduced through a simple seasonal partner play so that the engineering challenge will be purposeful and authentic.
The STEM challenge is meant to be completed after reading each partner play, and involves solving a problem for the characters in the play.
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1st - 3rd
Insects Readers Theater–Ant–Bee–Butterfly–Cricket–Firefly–Ladybug–Nature Spring
Insects Readers TheaterEleven Science Readers Theater scripts to build curiosity and interest in insectsBy Carol MontgomeryWouldn’t your students love MORE Readers Theater? “Insects Readers Theater” provides plenty of opportunities for delightful character-building nature studies for primary level readers. Perfect for beginning readers of every age, our "Insects Readers Theater" collection comes in two font options with annotated curriculum links for easy lesson plans. Seven of these scr
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K - 2nd
Readers Theater Scripts Growing Bundle - 1st & 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension
Are you looking for 1st and 2nd grade standards-based ELA reading, vocabulary, and review activities? Or maybe a fun and engaging readers theater to help with fluency? Mix these fluency and standards-based reading skills for a fun and engaging activity!There are 3-4 reader’s theater scripts within each unit. They range between two and four characters. Each readers theater script comes with a cover page, headband or necklace pieces, color copies, or black and white copies for each script.Each scr
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1st - 2nd
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Readers' Theater: The Water Cycle
This non-fiction play fuses reading and science to help students improve their fluency, learn more about H20 and have fun!
There are 5 characters: Narrator, Kid, Water Drop, Sun, Cloud
The play is 4 pages long
In addition to a script, there are a few follow-up extension activities:
* A comprehension quiz
* A drawing and labeling page
* An informative writing activity WITH pre-writing booklet
* A Literature Response page
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1st - 3rd
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Readers' Theater: Diary of a Worm (Non-Fiction)
This 4 page non-fiction play features 2 characters (a worm and a kid) who teach kids about worms, through the eyes of a worm. There is also a 5 question comprehension check that goes along with the play.
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1st - 3rd
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Spanish Reader's Theater Script: Force and Motion, Full Pack with Activities
Spanish ResourcesSpanish reading and science integration: Fuerza y movimientoActivities to Be Used in Small Groups, Centers, or Teacher Table.4 CHARACTERSThis script will refer to:Force and MotionPush or PullFrictionReaders’ Theater is one of the best tools to have students gain fluency, accuracy, and comprehension in reading. It also reinforces listening skills, and teamwork.It is a great resource to use in your classroom to integrate reading and science. You can use it in many ways: small grou
Teach Culinary Nutrition Education at Your School (5-Class Sample Pack)
Introduce your students to the joys of cooking with fresh vegetables, and teach them about the importance of healthy eating in a fun and interactive way.With our Teach VegeCooking program, your students will learn valuable skills that will last a lifetime, all while having a great time in the kitchen. Order your five-class sample pack today and start transforming the way your students think about food!These classes can be run over a five week period, or for a week-long, five-day summer camp. Wha
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