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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Today I Will Fly! [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Mo Williams' early childhood book, Today I Will Fly!, is provided on these pages. Five character roles are needed in this activity.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Three Little Pigs [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for James Marshall's fairy tale storybook, The Three Little Pigs, is provided on these pages. Fourteen character roles are needed in this activity.
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Aaron Shepherd

Aaron's Rt Kids Books: Reader's Theater Editions: Free Scripts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use Reader's Theater to practice speaking and to learn about stories from various cultures of the world at the same time. The free scripts can be copied, shared, and performed for any noncommercial purpose. Available in a full range of...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Dinosaur Land [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Dinosaur Land is provided on these pages. Two character roles are needed in this play that reinforces the difference between dinosaurs that are omnivores and carnivores.
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Aaron Shepherd

Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theater Page

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you're looking for a perfect combination of education and fun, here are resources for reader's theater including the acclaimed series of free scripts Reader's Theater Editions'-all from children's author Aaron Shepard.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st
A 2-page readers' theater script for a poem by Dr. Seuss.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Readers Theater Inquiry Based Learning

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow thirteen links to rubrics, charts, PowerPoints, videos, and activities to demonstrate Readers Theater an Inquiry Based Learning.
Professional Doc
NWT Literacy Council

Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Reader's Theatre [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Reader's Theatre is explained in this manual and a number of scripts for children's stories and rhymes are included. There are two scripts in other languages - Dogrib and French.
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Aaron Shepherd

Tips on Scripting by Aaron Shepard

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This tutorial explains the scripting process for reader's theater activities.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Storyboard

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Give students the chance to write their own Reader's Theater script! Small groups choose their genre, compose summaries, use their knowledge of story structure to deconstruct the text and turn it into a new creation, and finally rehearse...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Guest Readers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Mix up reading time by having your own young scholars transform into guest readers. Have students act out the book, read, or show illustrations.
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PBS

Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Theater: "Mithing Tooth" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "Mithing Tooth", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from Kenn Nesbitt's The Aliens Have Landed at Our School!'s poem, students will dramatize a poem about a child who is missing a tooth and gets upsets when his...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Empty Headed" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Empty Voices", students will participate in a poem in many voices. Adapted from the poem by Linda J. Knaus in Miles of Smiles, students will dramatize a poem that describes all of the crazy things that they have seen.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Don't Pinch!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Don't Pinch!", students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in his My Dog Ate My Homework! poetry collection, students will dramatize a poem about a child who discovers why his friends...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
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Other

Madeleine L'engle: A Wrinkle in Time: Resources for Teachers

For Students 4th - 8th
Featuring Madeleine L'Engle, this module provides numerous learning resources for teachers. Study guides, curriculum guides, reader's theater story adaptations, instructional videos, and spaces for student exemplars are provided.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Don't Suck Your Thumb" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Don't Suck Your Thumb", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a child who finds a substitute for...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "We're Going Skiing" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "We're Going Skiing", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from I Hope I Don't Strike Out!'s poem by Eric Ode, students will dramatize a poem about a child who gets a surprise when she goes skiing.
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Other

Fiction Teachers: Classroom Theater

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lots of resources for those who want to do classroom theater. Contains scripts, lesson plans, and a background essay.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Faust Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of Part 1 of the play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe including an introduction, dedication, a prologue for the theater and a prologue in Heaven.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Guided Reading Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
The benefits of guided reading are plentiful! Students will have increased fluency, an expanded vocabulary, stronger phonemic awareness, and a greater motivation to read. Use the following PDF as a template for your guided reading lesson.

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