History Speaks: Picture Books Plus Reader's Theater

Bring to life important stories from U.S. history with the History Speaks: Picture Books Plus Reader’s Theater. These books bring together illustrated picture books with reader’s theater scripts for students to practice fluency. In the back of each book, you’ll find a script and instructions for putting on a reader’s theater performance of each adventure. From the individual book pages below, you can download additional copies of the script plus sound effects, background images, and more ideas that will help make your reader’s theater performance a success.

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Cover: Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race

Cover: The Little Rock Nine Stand Up for Their Rights

Cover: Alice Ray and the Salem Witch Trials

Available Titles
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Title	Lexile	GRL	ATOS	©
Alice Ray and the Salem Witch Trials	550	T	3.8	2011
Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race	670	S	4.2	2011
Clara Morgan and the Oregon Trail Journey	680	S	4.3	2011
Ellen Craft's Escape from Slavery	560	S	3.8	2011
Enrique Esparza and the Battle of the Alamo	560	S	4.1	2011
George Washington and the Story of the U.S. Constitution	540	P	4.8	2011
John Greenwood's Journey to Bunker Hill	550	S	4.2	2011
Johnny Moore and the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine	530	R	3.7	2011
The Little Rock Nine Stand Up for Their Rights	540	T	4.4	2011
President Lincoln, Willie Kettles, and the Telegraph Machine	590	S	4.7	2011

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