Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh: NO PREP Reader's Theatre & Activities
What do you get when you mix Mo Willems' Pigeon and Christmas? An instant classic of course!
Who doesn't want to read Mo Willems? This is THE PERFECT way to practice fluency while embracing the chaos of the holidays!
Your students will love presenting Mo Willems' Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh Reader's Theatre! Use my No-Prep Reader's Theatre and activities to practice reading fluency while enjoying four of our favorite Pigeon books.
7 page Script
4 parts
Break your class into groups of 4 and let each group practice, then present the Reader's Theatre. It will be a fun, no-prep, interactive reading class!
Using Mo Willems' Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh, your students will get to enjoy high-quality literature while working on important speaking, presentation, and fluency skills. The great part is that even your struggling readers will love it! Fluency skills are easily practiced while allowing all students an opportunity to succeed.
Included in my Reader’s Theatre packet is an explanation behind the use of Reader’s Theatre, suggestions on how to implement it in your classroom, and specific teaching instructions regarding these books. In addition, I always include some fun independent work activities!
Enjoy this No-PREP Reader’s Theatre! It is perfect for elementary classrooms! Simply copy the script, assign the parts, and enjoy the practice, presentation, and related reading activities.
Teaching is hard. I hope I can help with my No-Prep Reader’s Theatre and activities!
Covers the following Reading standards:
· Knowledge level understanding including fact recall
· Character analysis
· Identify key plot points.
· Fluency
· Oral Presentation Skills
· Set a Purpose for Reading
· Group work and cooperation
· Dramatic Presentations
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Great resource. My students loved this activity.
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Hi, I’m Kim! I’m an educator with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Elementary Education and more than 30 years of classroom experience.
I started The Literature Lady because I wanted to make reading come alive for students—and make lesson planning a lot easier for teachers. I create resources that were way too time-consuming to create while teaching full-time, so that now you don’t have to! My passion is creating engaging, low-prep resources, such as novel studies, Word Noodle vocabulary games, and reader’s theatre scripts, that help kids fall in love with books while building real skills.
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