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Middle school literature scripts under $5
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Readers Theater Script Point of View
Students of all ages enjoy “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,” and will love performing this clever Readers’ Theater play which takes place after the story ends. This script lets your students practice fluency in a fun, engaging way. All you have to do is print and get started! It's perfect for small groups, short weeks in between units, or for sub plans.Play features the wolf, 1 pig, and 3 news reporters. Your students will laugh at the banter between the characters as the wolf tries, y
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3rd - 6th
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Christmas Reader's Theater and Reading Literature Toolkit for Grades 4-8
The Show Must Go On is a Christmas reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating the holiday season into your language arts instruction. This 13 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!The Christmas reader's theater resource includes:7-page script with 13 different charactersContext clue worksheet for word work4 read
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
The Day the Colored Pencils Resigned: A Reader's Theater and Literature Toolkit
Have you read the picture book The Day the Crayons Quit? It may just be one of my favorite read alouds that lets students understand the funny perspectives of crayons. I loved this book so much that I created this reader's theater script to use with my class!The Day the Colored Pencils Resigned is an evergreen reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating this high-interest story into your language arts instruction. This 12 cha
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Also included in: Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
Scripts: Shakespeare reader's theater (5 scripts)
Package contains reader’s theater scripts for Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Hamlet on Trial and the Ophelia Murder Mystery, interactive game links, lesson ideas, graphic organizers, writing prompts and an assessment rubric. Part of the Shakespeare readers theater bundle 7 scripts, 100+ pagesThese 10 minute scripts are tongue in cheek versions of the Bard’s finest tragedies. These are perfect for drama clubs, literature circles, an introduction to Shakespeare or for concluding a unit on the
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5th - 10th
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Mythology Scripts: 5 scripts: Full Class Readers Theatre Play
This is a compilation of five popular greek mythology stories written as Reader's Theatre scripts. These five short scripts have 6-8 characters each (narrator parts can be separated even more to create more parts if needed) making it a full class project with parts (as written) for 30 students. Each script is approximately 4-6 pages and join together for a full play approximately 50 min in length. They can also be worked separately in reading groups or literacy centers.
These characters are perf
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4th - 8th
Christmas Play Script - The Grouch
A funny Christmas play that revolves around a town where everyone loves Christmas. In fact they love Christmas so much it is all they talk about! However, a mysterious outcast lives outside of the town; this outcast hates Christmas and anything to do with the festive time of year. This beast is called the Grouch!The play follows the story of Mary-Boo and her family as they open up to the Grouch, and try to show him what Christmas is all about. However, the Grouch has his own plans to ruin Christ
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4th - 8th, Staff
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Also included in: A Bundle of Five Christmas Play Scripts
A Midsummer Night's Dream | A Play Script for Young Performers
This is a play script for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which has been rewritten to be suitable for ages 9 to 14. A Midsummer Night’s Dream tells the story of four Athenian lovers who have a complicated yet dramatic love life. Lysander and Hermia loved each other and wished to be together. Helena loved Demetrius, but Demetrius loved Hermia, and Hermia’s father wanted him to marry his daughter. Hermia and Lysander decided to run off together into the woods. But the woods were h
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4th - 8th
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Greek reader's theater (Iliad, Antigone, Odyssey)
Reader's theater provides a quick and engaging way to introduce, conclude (or both) a unit on Antigone, the Iliad, Odyssey or Greek literature. Besides 4 scripts, the package includes suggestions for lesson planning, step by step implementation, RAFT writing assignments and links to online games and resources. If you have never tried readers theater with a class this package will walk you through. If you are looking for a script that can be preformed for other classes, parent’s night or as an
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5th - 11th
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Cyclops: The Monster in the Cave--Readers Theater from The Odyssey
Includes comprehension activity, key, and teacher notes! Liven up your reading curriculum and satisfy the Common Core with this kid-friendly classroom play based on the 9th book of Homer's The Odyssey. Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, "Cyclops" is suitable for reader's theater or stage performance. Use it to introduce the original text, build fluency, and improve comprehension. Pair it with a Percy Jackson novel as part of a literature circle! Or j
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5th - 9th
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The Tell-Tale Heart Reader's Theater Toolkit for Middle School
The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe. This reader's theater adaptation of this scary tale will get your students thinking more deeply as they take on the roles of the narrator, old man, and the police officer.Reader’s Theater is one of my favorite tools to utilize in my middle school classroom. While I have listed the grades 6-8 common core standards that this resource covers, Reader’s Theater directly improves fluency and comprehension. In addition, Reader’s Theater allows s
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Scripts for BIG KIDS Collection
Read Aloud Plays: Hawthorne's The Birthmark Gothic Reader's Theater
A classic "mad scientist" short story comes to life! Build fluency and meet Common Core Standards with this adaption of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Gothic masterpiece, The Birthmark. It includes comprehension and vocabulary activities and keys. This compelling classroom play was originally published in the Jan. 2013 issue of Scholastic's Scope magazine, so you can trust it meets a high standard. Whether for reader's theater or stage performance, this six page play has parts for seven actors and is bes
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4th - 9th
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Christmas Readers Theater
A funny, language arts centered Readers Theater with 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. A hit as a presentation for parents, other classes, or performances.
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3rd - 6th
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Speedy Racer - Reader's Theater Scripts and Activities for Grades 4-7
Speedy Racer is an evergreen reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating high-interest stories into your language arts instruction. This 12 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!Utilize this 7-page, 12-character readers theater script in one class period, or over a week to allow your students more opportunities t
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
Reader's Theater: Off to Find the Northwest Territory! (NW Ordinance of 1787)
History surrounding the Northwest Territory in the late 1700's will become alive as students actively engage in dialogue that will increase their understanding of the development and impact of the Northwest Ordinance. By providing 15 individual parts, ALL students will have a chance to practice fluency and expression. Parts are leveled by reading ability to make assigning them an easy task! Great opportunity to connect knowledge of an important social studies event with common core standards
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Early Ohio History Activity Bundle for 4th Grade Social Studies
The Nutcracker Readers Theater with Text-Dependent Questions and Context Clues
This readers theater is a great addition to Christmas festivities for readers in the grades 3-6 levels. This is the classic legend of the Nutcracker. I have taken care to make the script engaging. My students really enjoyed becoming the characters of Fritz, Marie, and Nutcracker, but it was Godfather Drosselmeier that really stole the show in my room. This readers theater allows students to work on fluency and expression as they read it aloud. There are many speaking parts to make sure that
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Christmas Carol Nutcracker Readers Theater Comprehension Bundle
Reader's Theater Script based on Wonder by R.J. Palacio
9 page script! Engaging! Kid-friendly! Great for inferencing, figurative language, context clues, and more! Parts for ALL ability levels! ***TWO SCRIPTS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! One script has 2 Narrators, the other script has 4 Narrators. Your choice! Your student's will love this script!
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3rd - 9th
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Romeo and Juliet: Modern Balcony Scene Assignment
This assignment requires students to re-write the famous 'Balcony Scene' from Romeo and Juliet into modern English. Assignment includes instructions, the full text of Act II, scene ii (I have eliminated some lines in order to shorten it), and a space for the students to write their new, modern scene. A student example and an assessment rubric are also included. I always give the option to students to act out their modern balcony scene for the class - this is usually quite entertaining.
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8th - 11th
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Scripts: The Canterbury Tales reader's theater
Short modern English versions of four of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales plus graphic organizers, extension ideas, links to internet resources and a rubric for grading. These are perfect for drama clubs, literature circles, an introduction to the Middle Ages or for concluding a unit on British literature. Pardoner’s Tale (FK reading level 2.4) has one scene and 7 charactersNun’s Priest’s Tale (FK reading level 2.4) has two scenes and 6 charactersWife of Bath’s Tale (FK reading level 3.6) has 3
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8th - 12th
Anansi and the Sky God's Stories: An African Folktale (Script-Story)
Anansi, the world's original spider man, is one of folklore's greatest tricksters! Originating with the Ashanti people of Ghana, Africa, this story tells of one of Anansi's greatest feats: winning stories from Nyame the Sky God. He does so by defeating four fearsome creatures: Mmboro the hornet swarm, Osebo the leopard, Onini the python, and Mmoatia the fairy. With the help of his cunning wife, Aso, Anansi uses his spider skills to win the Sky God's stories for the humans of earth!This 12-page d
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Hero Tales from World Mythology Bundle
Script for Part of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Other Activities
This script is arranged to be read by groups of eight students, though this can be modified. With several groups reading or acting it out, everyone is involved with parts and gets inside the story, strengthing comprehension and making discussions more lively. Students highlight their parts before reading so they can anticipate their parts and stay in character. After reading the script, students in groups of four brainstorm and reflect on the questions provided. Next, discuss and share as a cl
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7th - 10th
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Scripts: Poe Pack (readers theater, Power Point +)
Edgar Allen Poe comes alive with reader’s theaters, choral readings, Power Point, projects, writing prompts and more. Package includes a 52 slide Power Point as well as 53 pages of scripts, graphic organizers, a visual dictionary for The Poe's Cask of Amontillado, rubric, and a How to do reader’s theater .PDF.The Raven and Annabel Lee are presented as choral readings; Helen 1831 and 1848 as tiered group project readings, The Cask of Amontillado is presented as a reader’s theater trial pre-readi
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: American Literature
The Ant and the Grasshopper Aesops Fables Readers Theater Grades 3-5
If you're looking for an engaging way to give your students fluency and comprehension practice, the Aesop's Fables Readers Theater for The Ant and the Grasshopper is perfect! Super easy for lesson planning and a great resource to have on hand for sub plans.What's included:1. Readers’ Theater with 6 parts. Perfect for small groups!2. Lessons - follows format for Close Reading Lessons3. Graphic organizers for comprehension workSome great uses for this play (and other ones in my store) … perfect fo
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Aesop's Fables Readers' Theater for Big Kids Bundle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Readers' Theater Script Easy Reader
The classic story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" adapted for young readers! This reader's theater script, "The Headless Horseman," is perfect for Halloween. The story has been simplified to make it fun and accessible to younger students.Lexile 610 Flesch-Kincaid 3.69 reading parts 10-page scriptReaders' theater is a strategy to engage students with reading. It develops students’ reading fluency by providing an audience and an authentic reason for repeated reading. Help your students get excited a
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Bundle: Readers' Theater for a Year (Grades 2-4)
Christmas Skit: "A Night in December"
This hilarious skit is a spoof of the historically popular "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Stooge, a principal at Dickens School is visited by three goats that help him to see what is most important in life.
Teachers will enjoy performing this for a Christmas program on the last day before winter break, or a class of students could put this together as part of a school program.
Manipulate this Microsoft Word document and save it on your computer. Print out the scripts for all of your
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5th - 6th
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