Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Today I Will Fly! [Pdf]
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.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Three Little Pigs [Pdf]
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.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Dinosaur Land [Pdf]
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.
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Theater: "Mithing Tooth" Poetry Theater
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...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Don't Pinch!" Poetry Theater
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...
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: Measure for Measure: A Problem Play?
What is Measure for Measure's problem? The play confronts us with questions about sex, morality, and power, which challenge us as readers and audiences. In these activities, students will debate why the play is so problematic, through...
Other
Fiction Teachers: Classroom Theater
Lots of resources for those who want to do classroom theater. Contains scripts, lesson plans, and a background essay.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Zoom Playhouse
This PBS kids site features dozens of short plays that have been performed on the children's television series "Zoom." Includes short scripts for skits which students can perform together, and lists of props to include in the performance.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Faust Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Slavery: A Crisis in the Making [Pdf]
This lesson looks at the issue of slavery and the role it played in the American Revolution and the founding of the new Republic. Includes background information for the teacher. Students participate in performing a reader's theater...
Aaron Shepherd
Aaron Shepherd: The Baker's Dozen (St. Nicholas Tale)
At this site listen to a portion of a tale of St Nicholas retold and read by author Aaron Shepherd. Information provided for Reader's Theater as well as extras provided by the author such as play script and posters.
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Bullies Be Gone [Pdf]
Students write narratives, poetry and dialogue about their experiences with bullying. Through observation and reflection, their work becomes a readers' theater production to share with their peers on how to make their school a safe...