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Thanksgiving Reader's Theatre Activity: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey

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Are you looking for fun and engaging Thanksgiving related activities?

Do you need to work on reading skills, but your kiddos are excited about the holiday and hard to focus? Then, put on my Reader's Theatre and enjoy the accompanying activities.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey is a classroom favorite! Enjoy this NO PREP Reader's Theatre! Copy and pass out the script for your class to practice and present!

Covers the following Reading standards:
· Knowledge level understanding including fact recall
· Identify key plot points.
· Sequencing
· Fluency
· Oral Presentation Skills
· Set a Purpose for Reading
· Group work and cooperation
· Dramatic Presentations

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Format
PDF
✓ Easy to Read Script with a color your part option
✓ Teacher Notes to help you know how to assign the script parts.
✓ Independent Activities with Answer Keys!
✓ My Reader's Theatre Philosophy for Use, Instructions and teaching suggestions
✓ Clickable Table of Contents
✓ Easy to Read Script
✓ Sequencing worksheet and Explain why worksheet
✓ Word Search and Coloring Page
✓ Answer Keys and PDF print version
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Fantastic resource

We are currently working on oral language and reading fluency and this resource is absolutely fabulous. My class have loved this as they already know the story and have been very engaged through out the whole unit. I have been very impressed with their performances.

(Originally posted on TpT)

Michelle M.
August 2026
★★★★★

Fun and engaging

I used this resource over the summer with my 8 year old son to keep him engaged and work on his confidence at public speaking. It was so much fun and engaging even my 3 year old daughter enjoyed it! We're already fans of the Old Lady Who Swallowed series, so this was just an extra bonus. Thank you for creating this resource.

(Originally posted on TpT)

Blanca Garcia Johnson
August 2025
★★★★★

Was such a cute idea and all the kids loved it and it was easy to cut out.

(Originally posted on TpT)

Patience P.
July 2025
★★★★★

My reading group had such fun reading this to younger grade levels. Thank you!!

(Originally posted on TpT)

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April 2025
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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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