Collection: Missouri State History Reader’s Theater Lessons | Grades 3–5

Teach Missouri State History with a connected set of 10 Grade 3-focused Reader’s Theater lessons for grades 3–5. Each lesson combines a 10-scene Reader’s Theater Script, Original Mini Reader, Accessible Mini Reader, vocabulary, questions, assessments, and teacher support.

Start with Missouri Geography and Regions, the complete free sample lesson, then browse the remaining lessons in sequence below. Teachers who want the complete set can get the 10-lesson Missouri State History bundle.

The sequence moves from Missouri geography and Native Nations through colonial Missouri, the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark, statehood and government, westward migration, Dred Scott and freedom suits, the Civil War, postwar change, and significant Missourians.