First Ladies Day in Court Lesson Plan
(included free with purchase of the script, available on teachers pay teachers)
Reader’s theater is a proven effective way to increase vocabulary, reading fluency and give students an authentic reason to read and reread material which boosts comprehension. This lesson plan accompanies the script First Ladies Day in Court and covers not only history, civics and economics standards but ties in with language arts.
Lesson plan includes goals, objectives, standards addressed, materials needed, introduction, activities, conclusion, a list of resources including internet resources, extensions and assessment. Two rubrics are included to help you evaluate oral language skills and the book jacket assignment.
Some links provided are to author created quia activities you and your students can use. These include
Concentration, matching, flash cards, word search http://www.quia.com/jg/1405826.html
Rags to Riches (Like Who Wants to be a Millionaire)
Battleship (Sink your opponent's ships by answering questions correctly.)
Hangman of Presidents and characters
Patterns (Choose the correct item from each group for root words and synonyms)