This historical reader's theater script builds fluency through oral reading. The creative script captures students' interest, so they will want to practice and perform. Included is a fluency lesson and approximate reading levels for the script roles.
Motivate your students with reading practice for performance and improve reading fluency with these easy-to implement reader's theater scripts. Includes 12 original leveled scripts and graphic organizers. The included ZIP file contains scripts, PDFs and graphic organizers. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 104pp .
Motivate your students with reading practice for performance and improve reading fluency with these easy-to implement reader's theater scripts. Includes 12 original leveled scripts and graphic organizers.A Teacher Resource CD is provided, which includes scripts, PDFs and graphic organizers. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 104pp + CD.
Motivate your students with reading practice for performance and improve reading fluency with these easy-to implement reader's theater scripts. Includes 12 original leveled scripts and graphic organizers.A Teacher Resource CD is provided, which includes scripts, PDFs and graphic organizers. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 104pp + CD.
Make difficult primary source materials accessible to today's students. This book provides a wide variety of primary sources from 20th century events with activities that teach important fluency strategies and cover key events and people of the time period. Included with each text is a history connection, a vocabulary connection, and extension ideas. A Teacher Resource CD is included containing the primary source photographs shown throughout the book. 192pp.
Imagine your students eagerly reading and re-reading informational text aloud, excited as they prepare to perform what they are reading. This is what happens with Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre (CBRT) scripts based on Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, and even Math topics. Thousands of teachers tell author Rosalind Flynn: "My students love these scripts!" The second edition of this book expands to add materials for Grades 1-5 along with the full contents of the original-Dramatizing the Content with Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre, Grades 6-12. Inside, you will find: - 23 reproducible CBRT scripts on various curriculum topics --11 scripts for younger students --12 scripts for older students - 11 script templates to simplify the writing process - Step-by step directions on how to: --introduce CBRT to students --collaborate with students on writing an original CBRT script --coach students to deliver strong performances - Materials to use in the delivery of CBRT Teacher Workshops
This resource enables teachers to incorporate today's career and college readiness standards into their lessons in a fun and intriguing way. The sixty poems that are included focus on social studies topics including US history and ancient civilizations. The use of poetry has many benefits that include increased literacy, fluency and reading comprehension. Each strategy lesson includes a model lesson, a template, an example lesson, a sample poem, and student pages. Students will be engaged in the verse format as they increase their literacy and understanding of social studies topics.
Alice is a good witch. And Greta... well, Greta and trouble are never far apart. Alice spends her time helping others by weaving her enchanting spells. All Greta does is wreak havoc. But when a forgotten spell comes back to haunt her, Greta's stuck learning something she should have learned long ago.
Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.