Timeless Teacher Stuff

A web site for Teachers

Readers Theater/Language Arts Activities/sheets/Writing Prompts
High Frequency Word lists and Powerpoints/Math/Music and more

Rick Swallow
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This index page contains:
     Readers Theater activities appropriate for Elementary School children.
     Language Arts materials that I collected in 25 years of teaching 6th grade; more being added over time.
     A link to my Math links page and hundreds of downloadable Daily Math Practice sheets I have uploaded.
     A link to Music suitable for classrooms.

     All materials are ready for printing.






Links to Other Resources



Language, Reading, Dictionaries, Encylopedias, Thesaurus
Math
Music
Spelling to Come
State Research
Student Sites
Teacher Parent Resources

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Don't miss my Daily Math Practice Sheets



NOTE: Netscape browsers translate in such a manner that there are double spaces between Character lines of the 
scripts and print them out as such.  Some versions of Internet Explorer may not recognize the spaces between
character lines. Young children will be able to discriminate between the character lines more easily when the
characters are separated by spaces so you may want to download (free) Netscape Navigator (Click on this link
and scroll to the bottom of the page for the latest Netscape version for your computer system.)

Firefox, the latest and perhaps best of the current browsers, can be downloaded here, Adobe Acrobat here.


    To access a particular activity, simply click on its title in the list.  You can print the scripts out 
just as you see them, or, if you wish to modify them in any way (font type, size, line spacing, etc.) you can
do a "Select All" (or simply drag through all the text from top to bottom to select it) and Copy it to your 
clipboard.  Then Paste it into an open page of your favorite word processor, manipulate the text to suite
your needs (larger print for primaries???) and print!

    You may opt to download the scripts as pdf files. Just click the  pdf  link next to the script title/link.   

    Another possible solution, which I originally had in mind, was to simply print out the desired material
and blow it up on the workroom copy machine for making multiple printouts.


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Readers Theatre Digest
Click for Reader's Theater Editions
Scripts adapted from stories by Aaron Shepard and others.  Grade levels for performers fall mostly
between 3 and 9.
Yahoo or Google searches for "Readers Theater" searches will lead you to many other sites. 



High Frequency Word Lists

The high frequency word lists below contain the words found in children's reading books in order of the
frequency in which they occur.  If students were to learn just the words contained on the very first list
(words 1 to 100),  they will have learned half of all the words they will come across in children's
reading materials! They are especially good lists for ELL and ELD students and are great to draw from for
spelling development in general.

  
I have also developed each of the lists, 12 in all,  into 100-card Powerpoint presentations with single
words to a card.  We use them on 25-inch TV monitors connected to our computers and they work excellently...
easily readable from the back of the classrooms.  I would be glad to send them to you as eMail attachments
just for the asking. It's all about the kids.... 

Note: Clicking on the pdf link will automatically put a pdf file on your desktop and you can open it with
your favorite .pdf reader such as the free Adobe Acrobat or Preview (on Macs only)

If you wish to download them yourself go to High Frequency Word Power Point Shows  




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