There Was a Party For Langston Reader's Theatre & Comprehension Activities
2024 Caldecott Honor Book!
My new FAVORITE and I know it will be yours too! Introducing: There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds. Are you looking for a fun, engaging, No-Prep way to practice reading fluency while enjoying award-winning picture books? Use my There Was a Party for Langston 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.
There are 15 parts in this 9-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 Jason Reynolds's There Was a Party for Langston 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, There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds. In addition, I have included a reading comprehension worksheet focusing on the life of Langston Hughes. I also include 2 fun independent 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
· Identify key plot points.
· Fluency
· Oral Presentation Skills
· Set a Purpose for Reading
· Group work and cooperation
· Dramatic Presentations
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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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