Weaving Readers Theatre and Nonfiction into the Curriculum.

Abstract

All: Thousands of asteroids were spin ning around us. Shirley : The area between the inner and the outer planets is called the asteroid belt. It is filled with thousands and thousands of asteroids. Florrie: Asteroids are chunks of rock and metal in orbit around the Sun. Sci entists think they are building blocks of a planet that never formed. All: All at once, we heard the tinkling of broken glass. One of our tail lights had been hit by an asteroid. Narrator: Ms. Frizzle put the bus on auto pilot and went out to take a look. She kept on talking about asteroids over the bus radio. Ms. Frizzle: The largest asteroid is only lh the size of our moon. Most asteroids are the size of houses or smaller. Tim: I wish she'd come inside. Narrator: Suddenly there was a snap. Ms. Frizzle's tether line had broken!