Sarah Kartchner Clark

Build Spanish fluency through performance reading with this script about the harsh experiences and struggles that families faced during the Great Depression. With this script, Spanish-speaking students will act out the story of a girl named Lillian whose father loses his job, causing the family to move from New York to Oklahoma. Readers will learn the importance of hard work, sacrifice, and a hopeful attitude. This Reader’s Theater script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on each student’s current reading level, allowing all Spanish readers to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence with performing, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story. These drama scripts are a great way to teach Spanish literacy and engage all English learners!

Help students write about mathematics content! This 2nd edition resource was created to support College and Career Readiness Standards, and provides in-depth research about content-area literacy instruction, including key strategies to help students write about and comprehend mathematics content. Each strategy includes classroom examples by grade ranges (1-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12) and necessary support materials, such as graphic organizers, templates, or digital resources to help teachers implement quickly and easily. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction are also provided to help English language learners, gifted students, and students reading below grade level.

Act out the story of two clever farmers who devise a plan to catch a sneaky coyote, Mr. Cool, and keep him from eating their animals! This Spanish-translated script features roles written to match different reading levels, supporting differentiation and English language learner strategies. By utilizing these easy-to-use strategies, teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on everyone's current reading level. This feature allows everyone to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! All readers can gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story. This script also features an accompanying poem and song to give readers additional fluency practice. This dynamic, Spanish script is the perfect tool for a classroom of diverse readers. It will surely get everyone participating and confidently practicing fluency!

In this important nonfiction book, young readers take a trip back in time to learn the differences between nursing in the past and nursing today. Along with a history of nursing, readers will learn about Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton and the development of the Red Cross, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, midwives, and all the responsibilities that come along with this admirable career. Intriguing facts, easy-to-read text, and appealing images work in conjunction with the table of contents, glossary, and index to give readers an experience that is both enjoyable and enlightening.

Act out the story of a girl named Allison who has to write an autobiography for class. Her friends and her recently divorced parents encourage her to remember who she is and to be thoughtful and honest with this assignment. Allison struggles at first, but decides to write about the challenges her family has faced after her parents' divorce and how she has become stronger despite these challenges. This Reader's Theater script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on each student's current reading level, allowing all students to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice performance, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story. These drama scripts for students are a great way to teach literacy and engage all learners!

Teach students about the harsh experiences and struggles that families faced during the Great Depression. With this script, students will act out the story of a girl named Lillian whose father loses his job, causing the family to move from New York to Oklahoma. Readers will learn the importance of hard work, sacrifice, and a hopeful attitude. This Reader's Theater script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on each student's current reading level, allowing all students to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice performance, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story. These drama scripts for students are a great way to teach literacy and engage all learners!

Students will act out the story of a young boy's dream that sends him and his friend on the mathematical journey of a lifetime! In the dream, Jacob and Adam meet a genie and get onboard his boat. They have to solve math problems to keep their boat moving and keep the adventure going! This exciting story helps make difficult math concepts seem simple and entertaining. This Reader's Theater script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on each student's current reading level, allowing all students to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice performance, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story. These drama scripts for students are a great way to teach literacy and engage all learners!

Mr. Cool is the smartest, sneakiest, fastest coyote in the west! When Farmer Joe and Farmer Jack realize Mr. Cool has been stealing their farm animals, they must think of a way to outsmart the sly coyote. Students will act out this story of two clever farmers who devise a plan to catch Mr. Cool and keep him from eating their animals. This Reader's Theater script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on each student's current reading level, allowing all students to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice performance, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story. This script also features an accompanying poem and song to give readers additional fluency practice. These drama scripts for students are a great way to teach literacy and engage all learners!