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4th grade short stories scripts
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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ELA Reader's Theater Mini-Bundle - Scripts and Activities for Middle School
Interested in trying reader's theater with your middle school readers? This 3-pack of reader's theater scripts and activities makes it easy to quickly incorporate this amazing teaching tool in your classroom.As an ELA teacher, I use reader's theater regularly to enhance fluency, increase student engagement, and sharpen our reading comprehension skills.If you are looking for high-interest, realistic fiction, standards-based scripts with vocabulary work, reader response questions, graphic organize
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Reader's Theater for Grades 4-8: The School Store CCSS Toolkit
The School Store 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 13 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!This 19-page fun pack includes:• 13-character, 8-page script• Context Clue Word Work to enhance vocabulary• Reader Response Question
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
Aesop's Fables Reader's Theater Scripts and Activities for Grades 4-7
Looking for a fun way to teach fables to your middle grade to middle school students? These Aesop's Fables reader's theater scripts are easy to implement, and students will love them! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating fables into your language arts instruction.These four, one-page, three-character scripts with corresponding reader response questions will give your students the chance to: work on fluency, reading comprehension while learning about the fables genre in a fun and en
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
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
Reader's Theater: Life in Colonial America! (+activities)
Bring key characteristics of Colonial America alive with this leveled set of 3 reader’s theater scripts featuring the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial way of life! Focus on differentiation by matching reading levels with the different scripts. Each script contains 6-7 parts, making it a perfect activity for centers or leveled guided reading groups! Modified versions provide support in basic fluency skills, regular versions focus on expression development, and enriched versions challen
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: 4th Grade Social Studies Projects Bundle
Social Story: Being Kind - Kindness (Activities and Visuals}
Social StoryBeing KindA social story about being kind to others.What's included:Full page and half page social story versionsColor and black and white printer friendly versionsDigital Google Slides versionActivities included to check to understandingTeaching Visual: Ways to Show KindnessThis social story is included in my Behavior Building Bundle!Looking for more social stories? Check out my many other social story topics in my store and also my large bundles!If you have any questions please fee
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PreK - 5th
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Reader's Theater: 4 Cultural Cinderella Stories (differentiated reading levels)
Directly aligned to the common core standards, students will actively engage in dialogue that will provide a background for the cultural differences demonstrated in these 4 Cinderella Reader’s Theater scripts! In addition to a comparison chart, Venn diagram graphic organizer, and writing prompt activity, I provide 2 stories written on a middle fourth grade reading level, 1 story written at a modified level for struggling readers, and 1 story written with a longer script and enriched vocabulary t
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle of Myths, Legends, and Traditional Tales!
Reader's Theater Bundle of Myths, Legends, and Traditional Tales!
Are you looking for a creative way to have your students graders explore myths, legends, and traditional tales for 4th and 5th grade Language Arts? Let this collection of classic American literature Reader’s Theaters engage students in fluency & expression while at the same time meeting a key Common Core reading benchmark! This bundle includes my 7 best selling sets of DIFFERENTIATED scripts on Native American tribes, Greek Myths, Aesops' Fables, Classic Fairy Tales, American Tall Tales, Tra
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3rd - 6th
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Readers' Theater Script
This Reader's Theater Script is easy to follow and is based off of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". This is written at a level that 4th, 5th, and 6th graders can enjoy. There are plenty of Tier 2 vocabulary terms to build a unit from. Words I chose to focus on for the week unit were region, reeling, hospitality, lanky, and cordially. The theme of the story as well as characterization can be explored with this script.
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4th - 8th
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Read Aloud Plays: Hawthorne's The Birthmark Gothic Reader's Theater
A classic "mad scientist" short story comes to life! Build fluency and meet Common Core Standards with this adaption of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Gothic masterpiece, The Birthmark. It includes comprehension and vocabulary activities and keys. This compelling classroom play was originally published in the Jan. 2013 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, so you can trust it meets a high standard. Whether for reader's theater or stage performance, this six page play has parts for seven actors and is bes
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4th - 9th
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Reader's Theater: Types of Government (Monarchy, Democracy, Dictatorship)
Are your students confused by the ways in which a democracy, a monarchy, and a dictatorship form of government work? This fast moving reader’s theater script will help students connect the roles and responsibilities of the monarchy, dictatorship, and democratic forms of government in a fun, engaging, and relatable way! This original play contains 20 parts featuring various reading levels to ensure whole class participation, differentiation, and engagement. Students will integrate important Socia
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Social Studies Reader's Theater Yearlong Bundle for 4th and 5th Grade
Reader's Theater: Johnny Appleseed (leveled play for 3rd, 4th, 5th grade)
This reader’s theater is LOADED with interesting, true facts about the life and adventures of Johnny Appleseed! This original play contains 22 parts featuring 3 different reading levels to ensure whole class participation, differentiation, and engagement. Students will learn how this eccentric character played a key role in how the Northwest territory was shaped in the late 1700’s . Integrating important Social Studies concepts with key LA standards such as fluency and expression, this origin
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Early Ohio History Activity Bundle for 4th Grade Social Studies
Halloween Readers' Theater Bundle
Practice fluency in a fun and engaging way with these readers' theater scripts! This resource includes both of my Halloween readers' theater scripts at a price cheaper than purchasing them each individually!Play Titles and Short Descriptions:THE HAUNTED HOUSEFour friends decide to go to a haunted house on Halloween. However, one friend goes missing right before they go inside. What happened? Read to find out!THE HALLOWEEN MYSTERYFour friends are hanging out together on Halloween when they decide
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3rd - 4th
Reader's Theater: Fairy Tales and teaching CHARACTER TRAITS! (intermediate)
Help students identify CHARACTER TRAITS as they are brought to life in this set of 6 classic Fairy Tale Reader’s Theaters! The scripts are differentiated by ATOS reading levels ranging from 3.9-6.2 so everyone can have a part on their individual reading level! Directly aligned to the common core standards for traditional literature, students will actively engage in character dialogue in order to complete included task sheets for character trait evidence! By providing more than 29 parts in tot
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle of Myths, Legends, and Traditional Tales!
Social Story: Positive Self-Talk
Social StoryPositive Self-TalkA social story about positive self-talk. Teaching children about how to be encouraging to themselves. What's included:Full page and half page social story versionsColor and black and white printer friendly versions Activity included to check to understandingLooking for more social stories? Check out my many other social story topics in my store and also my large bundles!Don't forget to follow my by clicking the green star at the top of my page to be the first to kno
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PreK - 5th
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Reader's Theater BUNDLE: 40 Myths, Legends, & Tall Tales!
Let this collection of classic American literature Reader’s Theaters engage students in fluency & expression while at the same time meeting a key Common Core reading benchmark! This bundle includes my 4 best selling sets of DIFFERENTIATED scripts on Native American Legends, Greek Myths, American Tall Tales, and Cultural Cinderella Tales. Students will actively engage in dialogue while at the same time reinforce additional language standards in the areas of figurative language, story struct
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3rd - 6th
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Bundle of Mentor Text Reader's Theater Scripts
18 scripts total as of December 2021.You asked me to create a bundle of all my Reader's Theatre so here it is. These are all based on popular mentor texts that students know and love so bringing them to life in a Reader's Theater format develops fluency, collaboration and speaking or performing for an audience. As more Reader's Theater scripts are added, the price will go up. Thanks,Jen Joneswww.helloliteracy.com
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1st - 4th
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Writing a Reader's Theater Script Project
This project guides students through the process of writing and performing a Reader's Theater scene, based on a short story. The materials can be used with any fiction text, so it can be differentiated for leveled small groups or adapted for any grade level!
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1. Three different graphic organizers for students to record information about the setting, characters, and plot of their text. (These really helped my students focus on the important details from the story that needed to be i
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2nd - 8th
Strega Nona Reader's Theater Scripts and Activities
This Strega Nona reader's theater script and activity toolkit is a great companion activity to the original story. It is a favorite of mine to share during the school year when we need a reminder of the importance of following directions.This Strega Nona Reader's Theater and Reading Literature Toolkit includes:a 3-page, 5-character scriptcontext clue word worksheet reading comprehension questions3-post-reading journal promptssummary workanswer keyEstimated Lexile Measure: 610LThis is a resource
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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Also included in: Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
A Christmas Carol - A School Remix Play Script
This is a play script for A Christmas Carol, however it is a modern remake that is based in a school. The play script tells the story of a mean, old headmaster, Ebenezer Loops, who runs a dark and miserable school. The teachers are under-paid and over-worked, and the students are not allowed to smile or have fun.It is Christmas eve and his best worker, Bob Bamboo asks for the day off to spend time with his family, and sick child – Petite Pat. Loops almost refuses but decides to just dock his pay
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4th - 8th, Staff
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Also included in: A Bundle of Four Christmas Play Scripts
Readers' Theater Bundle
Readers' theater scripts make great fluency practice. Add some seasonal fun with these original scripts. This bundle includes 20 scripts that cover many different holidays and seasons. Save 40% by purchasing the bundle instead of each individual script!Check out this FREE reader's theater script as a sample of my work.ALL 20 SCRIPTS INCLUDED-Football Readers' Theater-Cheerleader Readers' Theater-Superhero Readers' Theater-Haunted House (Halloween) Readers' Theater-Halloween Mystery Readers' Thea
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3rd - 4th
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Readers' Theater Script Easy Reader
The classic story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" adapted for young readers! This reader's theater script, "The Headless Horseman," is perfect for Halloween. The story has been simplified to make it fun and accessible to younger students.Lexile 610 Flesch-Kincaid 3.69 reading parts 10-page scriptReaders' theater is a strategy to engage students with reading. It develops students’ reading fluency by providing an audience and an authentic reason for repeated reading. Help your students get excited a
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Bundle: Readers' Theater for a Year (Grades 2-4)
Reader's Theater ~ Anansi Goes Fishing
Reader's theater play based on the story Anansi Goes Fishing from the 2nd Grade Reading Street series. Graphics courtesy of Microsoft. This is a great resource to build fluency and addresses common core standards for speaking and listening.
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1st - 4th
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