Reader's Theater for Grades 4-8: The Cafeteria Catastrophe-A CCSS Pack

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My 4th graders loved this!! Engaging and leaves off at the perfect spot for them to create their own ending!
My students loved this reader's theatre! They begged to reread it several times! I used it in small group with students who needed support with reading with prosody and accuracy.
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Description

No Prep-Print and Go Reader's Theater Pack!

This 18-page fun pack includes:

• 11-character, 9-page script

• Context Clue Word Work to enhance vocabulary

• Reader Response Questions to check for comprehension

• Summary Organizer for Interactive Notebooks

• Clear directions for immediate classroom use

• CCSS covered through student work

Estimated Lexile Measure is 770.

Reader's Theater in the Middle Grades classroom from Mrs. Beers' Language Arts Class is an essential tool that builds both fluency and reading comprehension.

If you are looking for a high-interest, realistic fiction, common core focused passage with word work, reader response questions, a summary graphic organizer, and a summary answer key, this is the perfect product for your classroom!

Utilize this 9-page, 11-character script in one class period or allow your students the chance to really enhance their abilities as fluent readers, responders to text, and summarizers over the course of a week.

The Cafeteria Catastrophe is about a student that is planning to run for student body president of her school's student council, but makes a bad choice by stealing from the school's cafeteria which results in a few undesirable consequences.

Your middle grade readers will love the chance to transform into the characters and determine what happens to Clara.

Also, a perfect teaching/learning tool to utilize with a substitute teacher to keep your students engaged while you are out of the classroom!

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For BUNDLED Reader's Theaters for BIG KIDS:

• All-American Reader's Theater BUNDLE for BIG KIDS Common Core Aligned

• Reader's Theater for BIG KIDS MEGA BUNDLE Common Core Aligned

• Reader's Theater for BIG KIDS Mini-Bundle Common Core Aligned

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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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