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Scripts have multiple reading levels (2.5-4.0). Titles: A Teacher and a Friend (Theme: friendship; content area: language arts); Teaming with Mr. Cool! (teamwork; language arts); Grandfather's Storytelling (storytelling tradition in American Indian culture; social studies); Two Flat Friends Travel the World (world cultures; social studies); Mathematical Journey of a Lifetime (multiplication and factorials; math skills); Wigz will be Wigz (counting money); From the Sun to Beyond Pluto (solar system); and The Inventor: Benjamin Franklin (inventors and inventions). Each script is based on or complements a piece of children's literature: Bio of Helen Keller; Fantastic Mr. Fox; Knots on a Counting Rope; Flat Stanley; Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar; Pigs Will be Pigs; Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System; and What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? Guide provides lessons, ELL support and reproducibles. Contents: teacher's guide; hybrid teacher resource CD (character masks, poem overheads, PowerPoint shows, reproducibles, song overheads, take-home scripts); three performance audio CDs (with scripts, songs and poems), 16 transparencies (song and poem for each script); and six copies of the eight different scripts. | |