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These dynamic literature-based activities will help you energize the social studies curriculum and implement national (and many of state) standards. Fredericks presents hundreds of hands-on, minds-on projects to stimulate actively and engage students in positive learning. Each of these 33 units offers book summaries, social studies topic areas, critical thinking questions, and dozens of easy-to-do activities for every grade level. The author also gives practical guidelines for integrating literature across the curriculum, lists of web sites useful in social studies classes, and annotated...

Fill your classroom or library with imagination and excitement with this latest readers theatre offering from best-selling author Anthony D. Fredericks. The participatory approach in combination with some of the most creative and far-flung scripts in the universe will have your students actively engaged in scientific principles and possibilities. The 20 scripts in this fantastical resource will put your students in the roles of explorers, discoverers, scientists, and, yes--a few aliens, too. Students will be able to let their creativity take flight with this perfect addition to the...

Natural disasters enthrall with their potency, might, and devastation. Tap into students' inherent awe of storms, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, avalanches, landslides, and tsunamis to open their minds to the wonders and power of the natural world. Using quality children's literature as a springboard to learning, this guide extends the understanding of science concepts through short activities, longer projects, and adventures. This participatory approach keeps the focus on the processes of science and promotes a personal response to learning. Students can...

Written for children reading at first and second grade levels, this readers theatre book uses Mother Goose rhymes as its basis, making it especially valuable to teachers and librarians working on building fluency skills in their beginning readers. The book offers plays based on well-known rhymes, complete with presentation and instructional follow up suggestions. The author also offers staging diagrams that enable teachers to use each script with entire classrooms of students, and he includes lists of further teaching resources for each play as well. Reading levels are based on accepted...

Have you heard Don't Kiss Sleeping Beauty, She's Got Really Bad Breath or The Ugly Duckling Sues His Parents for Bad Genes? This resource offers more than 20 reproducible satirical scripts for rip-roaring dramatics. Fredericks's side-splitting send-ups and wacky folktales and fairy tales are guaranteed to bring snickers, chuckles, and belly laughs into the classroom and get everyone involved. The book also contains guidelines and tips for using readers theatre in the classroom. It's a great icebreaker that everyone will enjoy Grades 4-8.

This new title from well-known readers theatre author Tony Fredericks is designed to offer librarians and teachers specific information and detailed guidelines on how to begin (and continue) with readers theatre - specifically how it can be used to promote fluency. Practical information about how to advocate for the use of readers theatre as part of your weekly schedule is featured, as is what to tell your principal about using readers theatre.

Chapters include the theory and practice behind the use of reader's theatre to promote reading fluency and other language arts skills as well as...

Energize your language arts program with these wild and wacky adaptations of Mother Goose rhymes and traditional fairy tales that will fill your classroom with laughter and learning Featuring more than 25 reproducible scripts, it also offers numerous practical guide-lines for using readers theatre in the classroom, this book is a perfect resource for your reading program.

Turn kids onto science with these exciting Internet learning adventures. The 88 lessons in this book connect young learners to the incredible array of science knowledge and resources on the Internet. Each unit includes engaging activities and Internet research projects based on specific science concepts, along with discussion questions and lists of relevant Web sites and related literature. Grades K-6.

Readers theatre continues to be popular with teachers and librarians endeavoring to enhance reading fluency. Humorous scripts are particularly in demand. In "MORE Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre," bestselling author Tony Fredericks presents all-new scripts based on fractured fairy and folk tales.

Building on the delightful and wildly humorous stories of his "Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre," Fredericks offers more than two dozen reproducible, satirical, and downright funny scripts that will reinvigorate and...

This participatory approach actively engages students in their own American history education. Arranged chronologically, these 24 readers theatre scripts put students in roles of selected historical figures, giving them a you are there perspective on the unfolding of critical milestones, memorable circumstances, and colorful venues that have shaped the American experience. Students can travel with a determined family along the Oregon Trail or to the moon with Neil Armstrong. Other opportunities to make history come alive include scripts having students work alongside Father Junipero Serra...

Walt Dudley waited on the roof of the Naniloa Hotel overlooking Hilo Bay. Eyes glued to the water, ears listening for the ring of his cellular phone, he was watching for a monster. It was a monster speeding across the Pacific Ocean at more than 500 miles per hour. It was a monster with the potential for consuming lives and pulverizing buildings. It was a monster of enormous strength, incredible power, and unbelievable destructiveness. Tsunamis--the stuff of legends in both ancient and modern times--are some of the world's most destructive natural disasters. But for Dr. Walter Dudley...

Teachers and librarians are continually looking for an interesting, fun way to input content knowledge to build that background information which will help push up student expository reading scores. Nonfiction readers theatre is one way to accomplish this. Professor Fredericks offers 30 short nonfiction readers theatre plays for the young reader (grades 1-3) on topics ranging from earth and natural science to community helpers, holidays, and government.

Test scores across the country show American students are far more able to read narrative than nonfiction text. Some research...

Tony Fredericks presents all-new scripts in this new book of fractured folk- and fairy tales for middle-grade readers theatre. Have you heard about The Boy Who Cried 'Amphibian' or about when Little Red Riding Hood punched that Big, Bad Wolf right in the mouth? Fredericks tells those stories and offers more than 25 additional reproducible, satirical scripts for rip-roaring dramatic reads. These scripts are guaranteed to evoke snickers, chuckles, and belly laughs, get everyone involved in production, and engage all audiences as well. The book also contains guidelines and tips for using...

Getting parents to participate in their child's education is easy with these take-home reproducibles This book provides a single-source guide to selected reading and extension activities for grade levels K-6. Each activity sheet includes a summary of a book, discussion questions, and a list of engaging learning projects for adults and children. The activities are designed to increase discussion, build reading skills, and develop comprehension. More than 100 titles of quality children's literature are featured. Teachers will love this unique way to promote reading, and it's great PR for...