READERS' THEATER END OF YEAR MYSTERY MIDDLE SCHOOL SCRIPT

This Readers’ Theater end of year mystery script will grip both drama and ELA grades 5-8 classes in the last few WILD days before the summer break. It transforms students into whodunit detectives, giving them high-interest practice in reading aloud, comprehension, and even some writing.
-- Question sheets and answers are included.

-- Quick peer and self assessment forms are included.
-- A reading rubric is included.
-- Fast finishers will love the coloring, games, and observation activities!

NUMBER OF READERS
The script is intended for 9 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded, depending on how many groups you wish to have. When the character tag EVERYONE appears, either the whole class can read the part, (usually something short and simple like “She scores!”) or a few students who don’t have an individual role can be assigned this group reading part.

PLOT

The script gets its title, Double Trouble, from the TWO mysteries that the stars of the script - 12 year-old twins Sloane and Sporty - have to solve on the last day of the school year. One mystery, a theft, occurs at school. The second mystery shows cheating in a Little League baseball game that night. The twins enjoy solving nice, juicy mysteries, yet can’t do it all on their own. Your students have to perform detection tasks too!

STUDENT TASKS
-- Students read aloud their own individual part.
-- Students read aloud the EVERYONE responses.
-- At two separate points in the script students have to solve clues to solve the mysteries, and write their ideas on an included answer sheet.

-- After completing the script, students discuss and write on six short answer questions.
-- They write a longer paragraph response.
-- They complete the quick self and peer assessment forms.

-- They perform a few fun detection activities, such as reuniting jokes that have become separated from their punchlines.
-- Fast finishers can color the summer borders.

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If your students enjoyed this script, they will have fun with Sloane and Sporty's other mystery scripts: The first is READERS THEATER MIDDLE SCHOOL SCARY MYSTERY SCRIPT.

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