Reader's Theater Script: Landforms, Reading and Science Activities/Centers

Reading and Science Integration: Landforms, Reading/Science Integration: Activities to Be Used in Small Groups, Centers, Or Teacher Table.

4 Characters (Intermediate Readers)

This package has 7 scripts:
Landforms (Geologist/Geology)
Valleys
Hills
Mountains
Mesas (Buttes/Mesas/Plateaus)
Plains (Grasslands/Steppes/Prairies)
Islands

Full Package includes:

Cover
Introduction
Common Core Standards (Reading, Listening, Science)
7 Scripts For 4 Characters Each
Comprehension Questions for Each Script
Sentence Stems (Answering in Complete Sentences)
Answer Key
Assessment= Summary Page, For Each Script
True or False Activity 1pg. (Assessment)
Cloze Passage (Who said?) 1pg. (Assessment)
I Am! Who Is? GAME
Solar System Cards Activities:
• Act It Out!
• Time Quest
• Dictionary Search
• Illustrate
My Landforms Book of Thoughts (Facts and Opinions) Activity
6 Posters in Color
6 Posters Black and white

This Readers’ Theater is a great resource to use in your classroom to integrate reading and science. You can use it in many ways: small group activities, centers, or teacher table.

Readers’ Theater is one of the best tools to have students gain fluency, accuracy, and comprehension in reading. It also reinforces listening skills, and teamwork.

This package comes with 7 different scripts. You can use the first script “Landforms” to introduce the unit to the class. You would have to divide the class in 4 groups, and each group will represent one of the four characters.

The next six scripts are about individual landforms: valleys, mountains, hills, mesas, plains, and islands. They talk about their physical characteristics, natural resources, and their importance in humans’ lives.

All the scripts have four characters, so if you want to divide the class in groups of four, you can make these your science centers, or you can include them in your reading block.

I’m including comprehension question to check on understanding, and I’m providing some answering sheets with sentence stems for students to answer the questions in complete sentences.

This package has lots of vocabulary activities that will reinforce students understanding, and activities that could be used as assessments.

I’m a bilingual teacher so all my plays will be written in English and Spanish, but you can buy them separately in my store.

Hope you and your critters enjoy a little drama!

Reading Standards for 3rd, 4th , 5th grade.
Reading Information:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY RI 3.1,3.2,3.7,3.10
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY RI 4.2,4.3,4.4,4.10
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY RI 5.2,5.10

Reading Foundational Skills:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY RF 2.4,3.4, 5.4

Speaking and Listening:
To include more of the Speaking and Listening Standards, have the students work in partners or small groups to discuss verbally the answers to the questions. Also have them do the activities together so that they can share ideas before writing them down.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY SL 3.1,4.1,5.1

Science Common Core Standards
Earth and Space 3.7, 4.7, 5.7