Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. Engage students through Reader's Theater to make learning fun while building knowledge of Texas history and the significant people, events, and places that make Texas what it is today. Improve vocabulary and comprehension with repeated practice and performance of the scripts along with TEKS-based activities in the lesson plans, which include word study, comprehension questions, and extension activities. Make your classroom a Reader's Theater classroom today!
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0Table of contents
- Cover
- Credits
- Page 3 - Table of Contents
- Page 4 - Introduction
- Page 4 - Why Use Reader’s Theater?
- Page 6 - How to Use This Book
- Page 8 - Correlation to the Standards
- Page 11 - Lessons
- Page 11 - Big Tex and the 800-Year-Old Man
- Page 22 - Cinco de Mayo
- Page 27 - Cynthia Ann Parker
- Page 33 - Henry Cisneros
- Page 38 - History of the Cherokee
- Page 45 - Rise of the Johnson Space Center
- Page 51 - Inside the Johnson Space Center
- Page 57 - Jim Bowie and William Travis at the Alamo
- Page 64 - Just the Facts
- Page 69 - Mirabeau B. Lamar
- Page 77 - Oveta Culp Hobby
- Page 86 - Rise of the Texas Rangers
- Page 93 - Sam Houston: Father of the Texas Independence
- Page 100 - Six Flags
- Page 107 - Sprindletop
- Page 114 - Texas Landmark Road Trip
- Page 120 - Texas Longhorn Castle
- Page 128 - The Arrest of Stephwn F. Austin
- Page 139 - The Galveston Hurricane
- Page 146 - The History of the Apache
- Page 152 - The King of the Wild Frontier
- Page 158 - The Legend of the Bluebonnet
- Page 164 - The Many Firsts of Barbara Jordan
- Page 170 - There’s a Pledge in Texas
- Page 175 - References Cited
- Thank You Page