Learn about the 20th century while building fluency through oral reading with these colorful, intriguing scripts! These scripts make repeated reading and building fluency an engaging task for students by having them act out lively stories. This kit includes eight scripts with leveled roles written at multiple reading levels, making it easy to implement differentiation strategies. This feature allows teachers to assign roles to students in a way that best accommodates their individual reading levels. This encourages all students to participate and engage in the same activity, regardless of their current reading ability.
By performing these stories together, students will practice important skills like interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures. Each script also includes a poem and song to give children additional fluency practice. All of these scripts give students the tools they need to confidently practice repeating reading and performance, making it the perfect resource for a classroom of varied readers.
Building Fluency through Reader's Theater: The 20th Century Kit includes:
Each script features content-area and common literature-based texts with roles written at different reading levels to help all students participate in a proven reader's theater model. Students build fluency and oral language skills through authentic repeated readings of scripts.
RT The 20th Century: Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11564 Learn about child labor conditions in the 20th Century in this historical, leveled script! Differentiated roles allow teachers to involve students of all reading levels in this activity, encouraging everyone to perform and confidently build fluency! |
RT The 20th Century: For A Better Life: An Immigration Story 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11565 In this script, act out the story of two families who immigrate to America, hoping for better lives! Assign the six leveled roles to students based on their current reading levels, allowing everyone to perform, build fluency, and feel successful. |
RT The 20th Century: Women's Suffrage: Not Only for Ourselves 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11566 Engage all students by acting out this script about two women working to give women the right to vote! Assign leveled roles based on students' individual reading abilities, so all students can perform, build fluency, and feel successful! |
RT The 20th Century: World War I: In Flander's Fields 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 4-8 Item Number: 11567 Build fluency while acting out this story of a WWI doctor who wrote the famous poem "In Flanders Fields"! Differentiated roles support readers of all levels, allowing teachers to get everyone involved, performing, and feeling successful. |
RT The 20th Century: A Migrant Mother in the Great Depression 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 5-8 Item Number: 11568 Engage all students by acting out this leveled script about migrant workers during the Great Depression. Assign differentiated roles based on students' individual reading abilities, so all students can perform, build fluency, and feel successful! |
RT The 20th Century: World War II: Battle of Normandy 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11569 In this script, act out the story of two girls whose grandfathers tell them about their experiences in World War II. Differentiated roles allow teachers to accommodate varied reading levels, so all students can feel successful while building fluency! |
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RT The 20th Century: Freedom Riders and the Civil Rights Movement 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 3-8 Item Number: 11570 All readers can build fluency by acting out this leveled script! This story about the Freedom Riders and Civil Rights Movement includes differentiated roles, allowing students of varying reading levels to participate and feel successful. |
RT The 20th Century: Cold War: Communism on Trial 6-Pack with AudioLevel: $52.77 Grade: 4-8 Item Number: 11571 Learn about Pete Seeger, a musician tried for Communism during the Cold War. This reader includes six differentiated roles, allowing teachers to accommodate varied reading levels. All readers will feel confident and successful while building fluency. |
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Easy-to-use, standards-based lesson plans incorporate strategies recommended by fluency expert Dr. Timothy Rasinski and focus on improving accuracy, automaticity, and oral expression. Lesson plans include additional focus on comprehension strategies, word work, and embedded literacy links to content-area topics.
Second language support activities, found throughout every lesson, provide the necessary support and scaffolding that teachers need to provide effective instruction to English language learners in the areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
Professionally recorded scripts, poems, and songs promote choral reading and allow students to hear the rhythm and expression that define fluency.
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