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Arts & music Common Core RL.5.1 resources
Ugly Christmas Character Sweater: Fun Holiday Writing, ELA Activity, Craft Board
Are you ready to bring some educational holiday cheer into your classroom? Unwrap your students' creativity and inferencing skills with this festive and educational Christmas writing activity! Create an Ugly (or cute) Character Sweater:Your students will combine whole class novels or independent reading with the hilarity of ugly Christmas sweaters. This ELA Christmas activity will make the chaos of the season a little easier by allowing students focus their energy on creating custom ugly sweater
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5th - 10th
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Jackie Robinson readers theater baseball play
Here's a compelling play about Jackie Robinson. Over my nearly thirty years of using drama in the classroom, kids say this is one of their favorites to enact. This original script recounts the events surrounding Jackie's breaking of the color barrier through the narration of the Hot Dog Man and the Peanut Vendor at an "actual" ballgame today. (You can hear a podcast presentation of the play at ReadAloudPlays.com) Parts for from 7 to 13 actors, and suitable for reader's theater, podcast, or sta
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4th - 7th
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READERS THEATER MIDDLE SCHOOL BRAIN TEASER MYSTERY SCRIPT: STOLEN LAPTOP
This grades 5-8 Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script gives students high-interest practice in reading aloud, comprehension and writing. Drama and ELA fun! "The Mystery of the Stolen Laptop" readers’ theater script requires your students to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The cast list is intended for 8 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded, depending on how many groups you wish to have. PLOTThis funny and engaging 12 page script is about the theft
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: DRAMA FUN | MIDDLE SCHOOL DRAMA GAMES & READERS' THEATER
The One and Only Bob Novel Study Unit - Questions - Activities - Vocabulary
This huge 120 page The One and Only Bob Novel Study is perfect for your upcoming One and Only Bob unit ! It contains One and Only Bob activities, including graphic organizers and The One and Only Bob questions that focus on reading comprehension and encourage students to think critically and engage with text. Detailed answer keys are also included.✅Be sure to check out the thumbnails and preview for detailed images and information about the activities included in this resource. This creative an
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4th - 6th
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Teach Theme/Moral/Lesson with Songs & Lyrics {Digital Interactive Google Slides}
Hi teacher friends! Are you looking for a fun way to introduce and practice the skill of finding theme? This is the only resource you will need for teaching theme/ moral/ lesson with songs! I found myself struggling with how to introduce theme to my students, but then I came up with the idea of using songs and their lyrics. I created this product for use in my own classroom, and when I used it, my students were hooked! They were engaged and motivated - singing along in the classroom, listening c
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3rd - 8th
St. Patrick's Day Readers' Theater Script & Reading Activities: Grade 3, 4, 5, 6
St. Patrick's Day Readers' Theater Script: "How to ALMOST Catch a Leprechaun": This humorous readers' theater St. Patrick's Day literacy toolkit includes the following:>"How to ALMOST Catch a Leprechaun": 7-page script for 4-6 readers>Sound Effects: Cue Cards>Vocabulary: Word Work activity>Comprehension Check: Inference graphic organizer activity>The Legend of Leprechauns: Fun Facts page>An overview of readers' theater & the four elements of fluent readingThe script include
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3rd - 6th
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Greek Mythology Unit Stations - Greek Mythology Projects - Greece Myth Unit
Perfect for an Ancient Greece Mythology Unit or Greece Interactive Notebook, this resource contains 7 different full text Greek myths with corresponding Greek Mythology comprehension questions and summary activities. These mythology questions and summary activities ask students to read through the text and pull out key facts and important details. Students cycle through each station, completing the activities as they go.Each station contains a full text myth, comprehension question page, and sum
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4th - 7th
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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
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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READERS' THEATER THANKSGIVING MYSTERY MIDDLE SCHOOL SCRIPT
This humorous Thanksgiving Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script will give grades 5-8 students practice in reading, comprehension, critical thinking and writing, while having lots of drama and ELA fun. The Mystery of the Vanishing Turkey whodunnit script will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. Perfect for reading or for performances! This 9 page script is intended for 9 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded
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5th - 8th
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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
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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Dragon Readers' Theater Script - Fluency, Word Work & Inference - Grades 3/4/5/6
Dragons - Readers' Theater Script Literacy Toolkit: "How to Teach an Old Dragon New Tricks": The day an old dragon followed Jonas J. Jeffries home from school, Jonas's life changed completely.* * * * * * * * * *This readers' theater literacy toolkit is also available in two different discounted bundles of scripts, literacy toolkits, and readers' theater poetry collections:*READERS' THEATER MEGA BUNDLE OF SILLINESS*READERS' THEATER BUNDLE OF FUNNY FLUENCY SCRIPTS* * * * * * * * * *This readers' t
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3rd - 6th
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The Nutcracker Readers Theater with Text-Dependent Questions and Context Clues
This readers theater is a great addition to Christmas festivities for readers in the grades 3-6 levels. This is the classic legend of the Nutcracker. I have taken care to make the script engaging. My students really enjoyed becoming the characters of Fritz, Marie, and Nutcracker, but it was Godfather Drosselmeier that really stole the show in my room. This readers theater allows students to work on fluency and expression as they read it aloud. There are many speaking parts to make sure that
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3rd - 6th
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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
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE
The beauty in The Lost Thing is that it settles into one’s soul in a casual and poetic way. What starts as a sort of amusing but sad story finds its way deeper into your heart. You begin to wonder, to ask questions. Soon you find yourself wanting to stand up and defend all the lost things in the world—including that lost part of yourself.
Are you somehow guilty too, you wonder? Quite unexpectedly, you begin to really feel the world Shaun Tan creates. It is a wonderful experience in mindf
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Easter Reading Comprehension & Craft | Making Inferences | Spring CSI Mystery
Add a little Springtime differentiation and art to your classroom. Students will love inferring and using deductive logic as they follow the Crime Scene Protocol and unlock the mystery of the Bunny BrainteaserThis Springtime Activity is an engaging hands-on workshop that’s super easy to set up. Students start off by reading, Bunny Background: History of the Domesticated Rabbit. Students re-read a CLOSE READ for better comprehension. For the CSI activity, students read, What Happened? and analyze
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Easter Reading Comprehension | Easter Math Activities Escape Room BUNDLE
Christmas Carol Nutcracker Readers Theater Comprehension Bundle
This set of readers theater scripts and text-dependent printables will get the attention of your students they still are tuned in to an educational activity. Introducing these classic tales with a readers theater is a great way to expose elementary students to these long-loved stories at their reading level. My students work on their comprehension as well as their fluency as we read these in our classroom. I have also included context clues to help students practice the skill of figuring out
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3rd - 6th
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel & Film Study Unit BUNDLE (editable)
About this Unit & NovelA Common Core-aligned literature study unit for use with the graphic novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick. The lessons and activities span the curriculum, covering vocabulary building, literary analysis, film history, the physics of simple machines, creative writing and argument building. Prompts appear in order of complexity, and simplified language appears in parentheses (delete or modify as needed). The unit is editable so you can pick and choose w
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4th - 8th
Valentine's Day Readers' Theater | February Reading Activity
Share the love and fun this Valentine's Day with a special Reader's theater. Perfect for a high interest upper elementary holiday reading activity. Easy prep with a big impact. Your students will laugh out loud as they read this funny, original script about a band of cupid trainees who are assigned a special mission to earn their golden diapers! This reader’s theater can be a challenge and is geared towards 5th grade and up. I recommend reading through it the first time as a whole class. Then s
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: Readers Theater Holiday Bundle | Seasonal Reading Activities
Drawing Conclusions Task Cards
Drawing conclusion task cards, center activities, art activity, student work bulletin board and a short drawing conclusions assessment. Your students will LOVE these fun activities!
Drawing Conclusions Task Cards
Drawing Conclusions Matching Center
Drawing Conclusions Art Activity
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2nd - 5th
GROWING MOVIE GUIDES BUNDLE (Over 140 Movies and Counting!)
These are GOOGLE FORMS quizzes and printable PDF worksheets for over 140 MOVIES AND COUNTING!This is a GROWING BUNDLE. I will continue to update as new movies come out. The guides include:Two Differentiated Worksheets20 Short-Answer Comprehension Questions20 Multiple-Choice Comprehension Questions4 Discussion Question WorksheetsAnswer KeysDigital Google Forms Versions of EverythingThese activities can be used as a movie guide to hold students accountable as they watch the movie. It can also be u
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3rd - 10th
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Wizard of Oz Script for Small Casts
This short script, which includes 8 speaking roles, is ideal for small casts such as those formed by drama club students or schools with low class sizes. Larger roles, such as Dorothy and the Scarecrow, can be divided in order to create more speaking roles for additional actors.
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1) Script
Based on the novel by Frank L. Baum, this abridged version of The Wizard of Oz uses simple vocabulary that is suitable for younger students as well as English language learners and actor’
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4th - 7th
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Reader's Theater Script: Natural Resources, Conservation, Waste Management
Reading and Science Integration: USE AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES “TRASH ME NOT”Scripts with Content for Intermediate Readers. FULL PACKThis Readers’ Theater is a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small groups, centers, or teacher table.TRASH ME NOT will be divided into 5 scenes. Each scene will have a reading response activity!For example:Scene1:First: Read and Re Read (Fluency)Next: Making Predictions, Answering & Asking Questions (Comprehen
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3rd - 5th
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