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1st grade Back to School science scripts
Animal Classification ELA and Science Unit, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade
Animal Classification (An ELA and Science Unit)These wonderful activities go along great with any animal unit. They are especially great to support and enhance your science lessons on animal groups. The reader theater scripts are two part scripts that focus on information about each animal group. There are 6 animal groups highlighted: mammals, reptiles, insects, fish, amphibians and birds. The students can take turns being the different animals, learn new vocabulary and work on their reading f
Seasonal Art & Craft Activities Megabundle Easy Step by Step Crafts + Writing
Are you in need of easy seasonal arts & crafts ideas for your primary classroom? This huge collection features 70+ simple craft projects (8 seasonal art activities for each month), including Spring and Earth Day, as well as printable worksheets!As a busy teacher myself, I know how difficult it can be to plan for art lessons. My goal in creating these units is to do all the work for you so that art will be easy to include in your weekly and monthly plans!Each project has been classroom tested
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1st - 3rd
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Social Story Making Green & Red Choices (Editable) Book Special Education PCS
Our Making Green and Red Choices social story is designed to help children learn about making positive choices in a simple, engaging, and visual way that makes the information easier to understand.With this social story, children will learn how to identify positive and negative choices through the use of the colors green and red. Green choices are positive and helpful, while red choices are negative and potentially harmful. This distinction is easy for children to understand and remember, making
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in:Â Social Stories Growing Bundle (52 Books) Special Education Autism PCS
Reader's Theater Scripts for Beginning Readers {Back to School}
Reader's Theater Scripts - These plays can be used for centers, Language Arts activities, fluency practice, partner reading, etc.These plays are designed and created with beginning readers in mind. Each play has large font, picture clues, and predictable word patterns. Ten plays are included. Each play is an original work created and written by A Teeny Tiny Teacher. All plays are two pages in length.Each play has two characters to encourage partnership and teamwork.If you are doing this as a
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â Reader's Theater {Back to School Bundle}
Routines & Procedures Modeling Scripts- Back to School Bundle
Classroom management is everything! At the beginning of the school year, it's important to get your classroom management game on. I always feel like a “How To" tour guide. It is during the first weeks of school that I teach, model, and guide my students through every single routine and procedure from arrival to dismissal and all the important stuff in between, like how to use, distribute and locate classroom materials and supplies, how to line up, how to dismiss, and how to actively listen to on
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K - 5th
Plants: Science Reader's Theater and Experiments
Combine some Science with your Language Arts. This is a readers’ theater script plus 7 experiments explaining what a seed needs to grow and what each part of the plant does. The script is 4 pages with 8 parts and is particularly useful for early readers as it has parts suitable for Emergent and Transitional Readers as follows:High Emergent (roughly levels 6-8): RainTransitional (roughly levels 10-12): Seed, Sun, Roots, LeavesHigh Transitional (roughly levels 14-16): Soil, Stem, NarratorThere ar
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K - 2nd
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Reader's Theater - Partner Plays for Kinder Kids {Back to School}
Reader's Theater - These plays can be used for centers, Language Arts activities, fluency practice, partner reading, etc.
These plays are designed and created for beginning Kinder Kids. Five of the plays focus on letter identification (capital and lowercase) and the other five plays focus specifically on B, C, G, M, and S (beginning sounds).
Ten plays are included. Each play is an original work created and written by A Teeny Tiny Teacher. All plays are two pages in length.
Each play has two c
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â Reader's Theater {Back to School Bundle}
Reader's Theater {Back to School Bundle}
This Reader's Theater Bundle is a 3 pack of Partner Plays {Back to School Editions} so that you can easily differentiate for your learners. It includes ten plays for Kinder Kids, ten plays for Beginning Readers, and ten plays for Advanced Readers.
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K - 2nd
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Character Education
It is important to teach your students character traits that are important for success in school, at home and for life. This pack will make teaching these skills and traits easy and fun. This pack highlights 7 character traits. TruthfulnessGratefulnessPatienceSelf-controlResponsibilityObedienceAttentivenessEach trait has a poster that describes ways they can show how they can achieve this character trait. Each character trait has a two part script that highlights what is important about this ch
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1st - 4th
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Reader's Theater - Partner Plays for Advanced Readers {Back to School}
Reader's Theater - These plays can be used for centers, Language Arts activities, fluency practice, partner reading, etc.
These plays are designed and created with advanced readers in mind. The font is smaller, there are no picture clues, and varied sentence structure is used without.
Ten plays are included. Each play is an original work created and written by A Teeny Tiny Teacher. All plays are two pages in length.
This pack features two lovable characters, Murphie (the dog) and Milo (the
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â Reader's Theater {Back to School Bundle}
STEM Seasonal BUNDLE - 30 Projects with Partner Plays STEM + Writing Spring
Kids love STEM, and these seasonal STEM activities integrate literacy through simple partner plays! Each challenge features a fun project, making it easy to explore STEM throughout the year in your integrated literacy program for kindergarten and first grade. This full year BUNDLE features 30 partner plays and 5 seasonal themes, including Easter, Spring and more! What is STEM?STEM involves:★ presenting students with an authentic problem★ challenging students to collaborate for possible solutions
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1st - 3rd
What I Do In School: A Social Story
This product contains three similar social stories about what students will do in school. The packet includes a Preschool, Kindergarten, and generic School version of the same story.
Pages include:
-listen to my teachers
-eat with my friends
-play at recess
-read books in the book center
-play in the dramatic play center
-play with blocks
-do arts and crafts
-put puzzles together
-sit with my friends in groups
-make new friends
-read, write, and do math
-sit and do my work
-smile and have fu
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PreK - 2nd
Going To a New School Social Story | New School Social Story | Moving Schools
Use this social story to discuss going to a new school! What's included?10 page social story COLOR10 page social story BLACK & WHITE
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Growing Social Story BUNDLE! | Speech Therapy | Social Skills
The Life Cycle of a Sunflower Seed to Plant, Reader's Theater Script; Level 1
The Life Cycle of a Seed Reader's Theater script Level 1Bring your science standards to life with this engaging Reader's Theater play designed to help your students learn about the life cycle of a sunflower seed. This fun script reinforces reading skills, science standards, science vocabulary, fluency, and speaking and listening skills. Students will learn how a sunflower seed needs water, sunlight, and soil to grow and what each stage of the plant life cycle looks like, starting and ending with
Science Discussion Starters
Science Scaffolds for Discussion
This product includes 11 science discussion starter posters.
Black&White + Color Included
When scientists share their ideas, they may say ...
I noticed ____.
My data shows ____.
I think ___ because ___.
I wonder ___.
I observed ____.
When scientists respond to others, they may say ...
Can you explain to me?
What do you think?
What evidence do you have?
Are you saying _____?
I agree with ___ because ____.
I respectfully disagree because ____.
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K - 8th
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Readers' Theater: The Life Cycle of the Frog
This non-fiction Readers' Theater play will help your students improve their fluency (pace, smoothness, expression) AND learn some science at the same time!
More details:
-2.5 pages
-characters: narrator, kid, egg, tadpole, froglet, frog
-Comprehension Check quiz
-Draw & Label the life cycle worksheet
-Write about the life cycle pages
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K - 3rd
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33 Animal Riddles–Readers Theater Partner Plays–Fluency–Listening Skills
33 Animal Riddles Readers Theater Partner Plays with Flexi-Curric™ *33 Original Readers Theatre Scripts by Carol Montgomery (updated January 2017)TIME: Each script takes about 30 seconds to read. 
CAST: 2+, or 2 CHORAL groups 
TONE: light, game-like 
READABILITY: grades K to 1+ * Our Flexi-Curric™ shortcut allows flexible, cross-curricular options for your local standards because YOU know what’s right for YOUR students. What could you do with 33 different animal riddles Reade
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K - 2nd
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First Week Rule Lesson | Back to School Activity | Classroom Rules Story
Are you looking for a new community- building tradition in your classroom? Do you want a memorable story to tell your students during the first week of school that will make a big impact?Wiggle, Didgi and Pop is a story about the importance of rules. Three friends set off to live in a land without any rules. Ultimately, they learn that fair rules are important and necessary.This story is perfect to tell your students right before you develop your classroom rules. It will get them thinking about
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1st - 4th
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Kids Weather Report template
Become a meteorologist and create your own weather report. This is a fill in the blank template page geared for elementary age kids. I have also included a completely blank template for kids to rewrite their report or come up with their own phrases to use when talking about the weather.This template encourages children to write about types of weather, clothing appropriate for the day, city in which they live (or are reporting the weather from) temperate in degrees F or C, day of the week, and ty
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K - 5th
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Weather and Seasons Readers Theater Set 1
Enjoy and learn from these Reader's Theater scripts about seasons, hurricanes, tornadoes and weatherSet #1 is Weather and SeasonsThere are 4 scripts in this set.The Four Seasons:What’s Your Favorite Season Group Graphing Activity (includes bar graph and tally marks recording sheets)1 full script in black and white with Character Cards1 full script in color with Character Cards with a girl narrator1 full script in color with Character Cards with a boy narratorHurricanes1 graphic organizer to reco
Greetings! A mini social story and visual choice cards
This product contains a mini 1 page social story about greeting people at school and two sets of visual choice cards for choosing a greeting. The first set is two pages (4 per page) and the second set is on one page and could be cut apart for any number of choices presented at a given time.
The greetings include:
-wave
-say "Hello"
-blow a kiss
-shake hands
-hug
-high five
-fist bump
-something else
There are multiple ways to use this resource in your classroom. I've included a few suggest
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PreK - 1st
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Apple Poems for Fluency Practice
This apple poetry set contains apple poetry for 2 or more voices. Apple poetry has seven apple poems written with a fun, apple picking theme and apple picking clip art.I've included super fun, apple picking kids simile headbands for your students to color and wear when performing the apple poetry. You'll also receive an apple poetry mini-book for your students to write their own poetry.Apple poetry for 2 or more voices has many benefits:-Great fluency practice for repeated practice, expression,
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Partner Poems for Reading Fluency Practice - Choral & Partner Reading Poetry
Readers' Theater: The Water Cycle
This non-fiction play fuses reading and science to help students improve their fluency, learn more about H20 and have fun!
There are 5 characters: Narrator, Kid, Water Drop, Sun, Cloud
The play is 4 pages long
In addition to a script, there are a few follow-up extension activities:
* A comprehension quiz
* A drawing and labeling page
* An informative writing activity WITH pre-writing booklet
* A Literature Response page
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1st - 3rd
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School Time Social Story and Visuals: Time for Work vs. Time to Go Home
Do you have students that don't want to come into class during arrival time or want to leave to go home in the middle of the day? The School Time Social Story and Visuals resource helps to teach students the routine and schedule of going to school. We come to school everyday to work, listen and follow class rules. We wait for the teacher to tell us to clean up and get our backpacks. We stay in the classroom until our teacher says that it's time to go home. When school is over, we can we get on t
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PreK - 12th
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