Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...

Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...

Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...

Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...

Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...

Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...

Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...

Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...

Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...

This site provides poetry theater for emergent young readers. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will engage in "When I Was a Baby": A Poem in Two Voices. Students will read...

In "My Violin," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child who causes problems at home whenever he plays his violin.

This readers' theatre of Verna Aardema's Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain crosses the curriculum to incorporate language arts, social studies, and science objectives. Learners will become familiar with the text of the story and then...

At this site listen to a tale of India and Pakistan 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.

This reader's theater version of a folktale from Angola has been adapted by children's book author Aaron Shepard from his short story "How Frog Went to Heaven." For 16 players, ages 7-9, the story explores themes of inventiveness and...

A reader's theater version of a folktale from India and Pakistan adapted by children's book author Aaron Shepard from his picture book "The Gifts of Wali Dad." For 15 players, ages 8-13, it contemplates questions of generosity....

A reader's theater version of a Finnish folktale adapted by children's book author Aaron Shepard from his picture book "The Maiden of Northland." For eight players, ages 11 and up. Performance length is six minutes. You will find links...

A reader's theater version of a folktale from Iran for ten players, ages 9-13. Adapted by children's book author Aaron Shepard from his short story "The Magic of Mushkil Gusha," the story explores themes of thankfulness and sharing....

At this site listen to a tale retold and read by author Aaron Shepherd. Information provided for Reader's Theater as well as extras provided by the author such as writing ideas and posters.

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...

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...

In "When the Bubble Burst", students will participate in a poem in three 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 gets in trouble for...

In "A Lesson Learned", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework! and If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a skydiver...

In "Bad Baxter Barton," students will participate in a dramatization of a poem. Adapted from the poem "Bad Baxter Barton" originally published in Tall Tales of the Wild West (And a Few Short Ones) by Eric Ode, students will assume roles...

In "Stop Sniffling!," students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child who learns the importance of blowing his nose.