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First Day Critter Jitters by Jory John Reader's Theatre and Activities- BTS Week
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My new FAVORITE Back to School picture book, and I know it will be yours too!
Introducing: First Day Critter Jitters by: Jory John. Are you looking for a fun, engaging, No-Prep way to practice reading fluency while enjoying award-winning picture books? Use my First Day Critter Jitters Reader’s Theatre and activities in your classroom and your children will beg you to do it one more time! The students will love retelling this all-time favorite picture book.
Students will love to start the year with an engaging activity that will get them up and out of their seats, reading and participating. It is perfect for grades 2-5! Yes, even the older students will love it!
There are 11 parts in this 11-page script, but they can be adjusted to have more or less. I typically created multiple groups in my class to perform the same Reader's Theatre. They always love watching their classmates AND performing!
Using Jory John's First Day Critter Jitters 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 this book, First Day Critter Jitters by: Jory John. In addition, I have included a matching worksheet, word search and writing prompt.
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
· Identify key plot points.
· Fluency
· Oral Presentation Skills
· Set a Purpose for Reading
· Group work and cooperation
· Dramatic Presentations
Format
PDF
✓ Easy to Read Script with a “color your part” option.
✓ Teacher Notes to help you know how to assign the script parts.
✓ 11-page script- 11 parts (flexible)
✓ Independent Activities with Answer Keys!
✓ My Reading Theatre Philosophy for Use, instructions and teaching suggestions
✓ Clickable Table of Contents
✓ Easy to Read Script
✓ Matching worksheet, Word Search and Writing Prompt
✓ Answer Keys and a PDF print version
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This has always been a favourite first week book, in French, and as of this school year, English. I was happy to find this play text to support student fluency. Students loved working on the play and there were some pretty great shows.
(Originally posted on TpT)
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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.
When I’m not writing or designing new lessons, you’ll find me teaching right here on the TeacherStore.io community platform! The Young Scholar Academy is an online small group learning community that teaches homeschool students in grades 1-8. We teach core classes, electives, one-on-one tutoring, and so much more! As Tiffany would say, "Come for the classes, stay for the community!"
I am also a fun of reading, baking, traveling, or hanging out with my husband, our two college-aged sons, and our dogs, Maisie and Sophie.
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