Make multi-digit addition fun, engaging, and meaningful with this exciting readers’ theater script that helps students apply 4-digit addition with regrouping in a real-world sports setting! In "Mega Sports Tournament," students tally up attendance numbers from each day of a school-wide tournament to find the grand total—and discover they’ve made school history!

This skit is a perfect way to connect math fluency with real-life situations students care about, like sports, teamwork, and school pride. Great for use in math centers, small group instruction, enrichment, or as a performance-based activity that blends literacy and math.

What's Included:

• Reader's Theater Script: "Mega Sports Tournament"
• 5 characters/roles included in the script.
• Space for students to draw their scene, to help them visualize what is going on in the skit.
• Cross-Curricular Learning: students practice math and reading fluency at the same time!

Skit Summary:

Jordan and Taylor work together to calculate total tournament attendance over four days using 4-digit addition. As they crunch the numbers, they discover their school hosted its most successful event yet—thanks to strong math skills and a lot of fan support!

How it works:

1. Split students into groups of 5.
2. Have each student choose a character to play.
3. Students will take turns reading their lines.
4. Students will act out their lines, and present their skit to the class!
5. Make it even more fun by letting students create their own props or puppets!