Immigration: Starting a New Life

Act out this inspiring story about a family's journey to immigrate to America. Students will get a feel for what life was like for immigrants by acting out the various roles in this script. This script includes roles written at various reading levels, allowing teachers to implement differentiation and English language learner strategies. This feature allows teachers to assign each role based on their students' individual reading levels, encouraging everyone to get involved in the same activity. Whether students are struggling or proficient readers, they can all gain confidence in their reading fluency and feel successful. By performing together, students will also practice interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures while storytelling. With an accompanying poem and song to give readers additional fluency practice, this script is a dynamic resource sure to engage a classroom of varied readers.