Teach students about the harsh experiences and struggles that families faced during the Great Depression. While acting out this script, students will learn the importance of hard work and sacrifice.

This leveled script allows teachers to easily implement differentiation and English language learner strategies and assign specific roles to accommodate individual reading skills. Teachers can get all students involved and engaged in the same activity, whether they are struggling or proficient readers. Everyone can feel successful and build fluency through performance!

Students will also practice interacting cooperatively and using expressive voices and gestures. With an accompanying poem and song for additional fluency practice, this script is a dynamic resource for fifth and sixth grade.