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Ruth and Naomi may be thrown out of the pitiful little hovel they call home if they can't pay the rent to villain Black Bartho...
Have your first or second graders excited to participate in their first theatrical debut in the classroom with the story, "The Little Old Lady Wh...
A 6 page, 6 part reader's theatre script for the fairy tale Rapunzel. The script is written with young readers in mind and contains parts for Hi...
This fun 15-minute script, by award-winning playwright Gyda Arber, is based on the true story of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, which launc...
This is a script I adapted from the book by CS Lewis. The class I developed this for had 26 children and we had to do the performance in 15 minu...
This is a Reader's Theater script based on the children's book, A Silly Snowy Day by Michael Coleman.
Reader's theater and repeated reading is...
"Rockin' Around Kindergarten" is a Graduation Program that is centered around the 50's music and was written by me. This is a fun, creative prod...
Allow your students to be a part of history with this package of skits about the events leading up to the American Revolution. Using this innovat...
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Do you enjoy reading the book, Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson in your classroom in the winter? It's one of my favorites and my students' too! Tha...
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This is a great creation of reader's theatre using Dragon Gets By. This is a great activity to work on for Theme 1, Selection 1, in the Houghton...
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Celebrate Mardi Gras in French class! Beginners of all ages will learn about a traditional New Orleans Mardi Gras through an original story call...
This package includes three Reader's Theater scripts for emergent readers:
- The Little Red Hen
- The Three Little Pigs
- Three Billy Goats Gruff...
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The tale of a little girl who has 2 problems: her snowman melts and animals eat the food off of the snowman's face, comes to life in this Readers...
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This Goldilocks and the Three Bears reader's theatre script is especially written for emergent readers with simplified language and repetition. A...
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This four-page, three-part article provides tips and strategies to make the most of your reader's theater or classroom play activities. "Why Use ...
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This zip file contains 8 original plays with comprehension questions for each one. Each quiz contains a dramatic play and 5 comprehension questi...
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This is a great reader's theatre using Dragon Gets By, which is Theme 1, Selection 1 in the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. This is a great rea...
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Did you know Rosa Parks wasn't the first? Here's an original play from the Montgomery Bus Boycott--and it's just $3 for a full class set! The Gir...
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A fun way to practice and improve reading fluency is by using Reader's Theater. You can use it in place of or in addition to your small Guided R...
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This reader’s theater script is of a reporter interviewing President George Washington. Your students will have fun reading this with partners...
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Wagons, Ho! is a Readers Theater script on the California Gold Rush. Perfect for grades 3 through 8, it can be used with a small group or with th...
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This is an original script adapted from the book, Who Will Fly Santa's Sleigh Tonight?
In this pack, you will get a script complete with lines a...
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This readers theater explains the process of photosynthesis in plants. I have used it as a whole class language arts/science activity by numberin...
Imagine your students at the Lincoln Memorial when Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech! This Read Aloud Play based on...
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A farmer plants a potato seed and ends up with the BIGGEST potato in the world. It takes him, his wife, his daughter, his dog, his cat AND a tin...
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This poster models a 5 step process for using context clues to understand new words. The poster is a "think aloud" for the word "infraction", st...
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An Easter inspired Reader's Theater about six little chicks and their adventure with colored dye. Includes parts for 13 different readers, but c...
Your students will love this approach to history! This 13 page readers' theater is specifically created to meet the Georgia Performance Standards...
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This is a Reader's Theater for a small group. There are 4 characters. The names are girls but could be changed to include boys. This story is abo...
This holiday play "A Field Trip to the North Pole" is an original play written for use as readers’ theater, as a part of balanced literacy (Rea...
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A fun and lighthearted skit or play with fairy tale characters preparing to take a State Test. Is primarily for Test Taking strategies and skills...
This reader's theater contains an interview with the first five presidents. It has many important facts about each president that many students d...
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As a music teacher who also has a background in dance and theatre, I am disappointed by most of the published scripts available for Christmas con...
Save time and money with this HUGE classification package. Differentiation is easy and students learn better when material is provided in variou...
This is a collection of 3 social stories about how to behave in common community locations. The stories included are:
- Going to a Restaurant
- M...
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This Little Red Riding Hood reader's theatre script is especially written for emergent readers with simplified language and repetition. Also incl...
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A 5 page, 5 part reader's theatre script for the fairy tale the Elves and the Shoemaker. The script is written with primary students in mind and...
Use this animated PowerPoint to go along with the Tacky the Penguin story by Helen Lester. It is an adapted version for a group of students or a...
The Cinco de Mayo script has parts for 15 characters. (A smaller group could easily perform this, however, by simply assigning kids multiple par...
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This assignment requires students to re-write the famous 'Balcony Scene' from Romeo and Juliet into modern English. Assignment includes instruct...
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Engage your students with readers’ theater scripts. Research shows that readers’ theater improves fluency and comprehension. The 2 fables inc...
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This is a Reader's Theater script adapted from and based on the children's book, "Careful, Santa" by Julia Sykes.
Reader's theater and repeate...
Reader's Theater is an engaging teaching strategy that can bring history to life! This twenty-four character script is designed to not only have ...
This product includes a reader's theater script based on the folk tale Why Mosquitoes buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aarmdema.There are also 7 pr...
This 6 part script on the Social Studies topic The American Revolution involves students in reading, rehearsing, and performing a script that rev...
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This is a Reader's Theater for a small group. There are three parts in this. Two are for girls and one is for a boy. The story is about Rapunzel ...
The students will learn how to solve multiplication facts and problems by 2's with accuracy. The students will also be able to read and follow di...
This is a very short version of the Battle of Saratoga and Benedict Arnold. It would be a great fluency activity for your struggling readers, and...
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This 7 page pdf file contains 3 scripted, open-ended generic lessons for teaching previewing and setting a purpose for reading, predictions, and ...
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Drama Headquarters is a list of plays suitable for high school, middle school and primary school all available for free and complete perusal.
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