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Scripts have multiple reading levels (4.5-6.0). Titles: Lillian's Family Tree (Theme: heritage; content area: language arts); Remember Who you Are (express yourself; autobiography; language arts); Independence Trunk (responsibility; American Revolution; social studies); From Independence to Oregon (journeys and quests; Oregon Trail); Anglezandria and the Golden Tri-Scarab (cooperation and competition; geometric terms and shapes); How Puzzling! (problem solving; math); Little Things Matter (small things/matter; science); and Touchdown of the Wrong Kind (nature; tornadoes). Each script is based on or complements a piece of children's literature: Year Down Yonder; Boy; My Brother Sam Is Dead; Bound for Oregon; Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone; Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School; Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake; Eyewitness Science: Matter; and Night of the Twisters. 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); 19 transparencies (song and poem for each script); and six copies of the eight different scripts. | |