FOR YOUNGER READERS
YOU MAY PURCHASE THE FIRST 10 TITLES BELOW AS OUR PRIMARY COLLECTION, OR ORDER TITLES INDIVIDUALLY.
Our Primary Collection includes 10 short Choral Speaking scripts each with its accompanying Readers Theater version, a total of 20 short scripts. This is a great way to introduce both RT and Choral Speaking to your students!
If you wish to order the following 10 titles (20 scripts) as a collection, the identification number is CH-100. Go back to the HOME page and click ORDER FORM at the left hand side of the screen. Scroll down to the bottom of the order form and click the appropriate box, then send the order. You may also telephone your order: 604-925-1989 or 760-674-1728.
If all else fails, e-mail Lois at lois@scriptsforschools.com
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COLLECTION PRICES
Download: $99.95 USD per collection
Hard Copy: $139.95 USD, per collection, includes shipping and storage binder.
(All collection scripts are"Value-Added" and include one Choral Speaking and one RT script per title).
INDIVIDUAL TITLE PRICE
Download: $14.95 per title. ("Value-Added" includes one Choral Speaking and one RT script of the same title).
Hard Copy: $21.95 per title. ("Value-Added" includes one Choral Speaking and one RT script of the same title).
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NOTE: Sample pages are not available for the Primary Collection (CH-1 through CH 10) below. If you want to look through a package before ordering, please contact Lois and ask her to e-mail a sample script to you.
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For a free Halloween Choral Reading script (Primary readers), please click HERE.
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PLEASE, SCROLL DOWN FOR SCRIPT TITLES AND PLOT DESCRIPTIONS:
CH-1/P-22 GO HOME GOLDIE, Primary K-3
SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED PACKAGE
"Goldilocks and the Three Bears," a well-known fairytale, written for Choral Speaking with rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. When you purchase this title you will also receive a Readers Theater version of the same title. Copies of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide and Readers Theater Teacher's Guide are available under "Free Teacher Aides" on our website. Script length: 2-3 pages. Performance time: 2 minutes.
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CH-2/P-23 THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANTS, Primary K-3 SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED PACKAGE
"The Grasshopper and the Ants," a popular fable, re-written for Choral Speaking with rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. When you purchase this title you will also receive a Readers Theater version of the same title. Copies of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide and Readers The?ater Teacher's Guide are available under "Free Teacher Aides" on our website. Script length: 2-3 pages. Performance time: 2 minutes.
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CH-3/P-24 SING A SONG OF SIX PENCE, Primary K-3
SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED PACKAGE
"Sing a Song of Six Pence," a favorite nursery rhyme, written for Choral Speaking with rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. When you purchase this title you will also receive a Readers Theater version of the same title. Copies of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide and Readers Theater Teacher's Guide are available under "Free Teacher Aides" on our website. Script length: 2-3 pages. Performance time: 2 minutes.
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CH-4/P-25 THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, Primary K-3
SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED PACKAGE
"The Owl and the Pussycat," a favorite nursery rhyme, written for Choral Speaking with rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. When you purchase this title you will also receive a Readers Theater version of the same title. Copies of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide and Readers Theater Teacher's Guide are available under "Free Teacher Aides" on our website. Script length: 2-3 pages. Performance time: 2 minutes.
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CH-5/P-26 THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF, Primary K-3
SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED PACKAGE
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf," a favorite folk tale, rhyme, written for Choral Speaking with rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. When you purchase this title you will also receive a Readers Theater version of the same title. Copies of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide and Readers Theater Teacher's Guide are available under "Free Teacher Aides" on our website. Script length: 2-3 pages. Performance time: 2 minutes.
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CH-6/P-27 THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF, Primary K-3
SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED PACKAGE
"Three Billy Goats Gruff," a favorite fairy tale, written for Choral Speaking with rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. When you purchase this title you will also receive a Readers Theater version of the same title. Copies of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide and Readers Theater Teacher's Guide are available under "Free Teacher Aides" on our website. Script length: 2-3 pages. Performance time: 2 minutes.
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CH-7/P-28 THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES, Primary K-3
SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED PACKAGE
"The Emperor's New Clothes," a favorite fairy tale, written for Choral Speaking with rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. When you purchase this title you will also receive a Readers Theater version of the same title. Copies of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide and Readers Theater Teacher's Guide are available under "Free Teacher Aides" on our website. Script length: 2-3 pages. Performance time: 2 minutes.
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CH-8/P29 THE LION AND THE MOUSE, Primary K-3
SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED PACKAGE
"The Lion and the Mouse," a well-known fable, written for Choral Speaking with rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. When you purchase this title you will also receive a Readers Theater version of the same title. Copies of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide and Readers Theater Teacher's Guide are available under "Free Teacher Aides" on our website. Script length: 2-3 pages. Performance time: 2 minutes.
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CH-9/P-30 THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, Primary K-3
SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED PACKAGE
"The Princess and the Pea," a favorite fairy tale, written for Choral Speaking with rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. When you purchase this title you will also receive a Readers Theater version of the same title. Copies of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide and Readers Theater Teacher's Guide are available under "Free Teacher Aides" on our website. Script length: 2-3 pages. Performance time: 2 minutes.
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CH-10/P31 RAPUNZEL, Primary K-3
SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED PACKAGE
"Rapunzel," a popular fairy tale, written for Choral Speaking with rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. When you purchase this title you will also receive a Readers Theater version of the same title. Copies of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide and Readers Theater Teacher's Guide are available under "Free Teacher Aides" on our website. Script length: 2-3 pages. Performance time: 2 minutes.
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Single Title, not included in above collection, $14.95:
CH-12. THE THREE LITTLE PIGS, Primary, K-3
If you liked our re-telling in rhyme of Goldie and the Three Bears, ("Go Home Goldie") you'll LOVE this new approach to the old three pig/wolf story. Talk about the THREE R's: rhythm, repetition, and rhyme! Same basic plot but lots of added fun with a hand-clapping, toe-tapping approach to the telling.
In this CHORAL SPEAKING/READING script, the director (or another older reader) takes the role of narrator. The voice choir works together in unison and occasionally, ALL GIRLS and ALL BOYS take special lines in unison. There are also SOLO lines for 6 speakers.
NOTE: To include more solo speakers, you can stretch the solo speakers to 12 by assigning the second set of solo lines to 6 additional speakers. Script length: 5 pages. Performance time: 4-5 minutes.
For sample pages, click HERE.
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CH-24/I-81. THE MAN WHO FLEW INTO SPACE
This script features rhythm and rhyming words and is loosely based on an old jump rope rhyme about a man who flies into space. Whenever the man flies off, he comes back with “something on his face” and the text explains exactly what has happened to him while out there on his journey.
A Value-Added Package: When you order this title, you receive both a Readers Theater Version and a Choral Speaking Version. Both are for Upper Primary or Lower Intermediate Readers and Voice Choirs.
RT VERSION: 6 Readers, including an ALL chorus. 7 pages in length. CHORAL SPEAKING/READING VERSION: Formatted for ALL, ALL GIRL VOICES, ALL BOY VOICES, and an ALL CHORUS. 6 1/2 pages in length.
For more information, please click HERE.
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A Value Added Package: $14.95. 3 Scripts for a Single Script Price!
CH-27/I-84 THE THANKSGIVING ESCAPE, P-35 TURKEY IN THE BARNYARD
Turkey and Piggy live side by side in the barnyard. They love to sing together and especially like singing “The Gobble-Oink Song” (sung to the tune of “Stayin’ Alive). Piggy doesn’t quite understand the importance of the approaching Thanksgiving Day, but Turkey gets the message and announces it is his opinion that “folks should eat more ham!” Then he finds a hole in the fence and conveniently disappears. Piggy decides she doesn’t want to end up as “a soup ham bone” and also makes her escape. So, what’s left to serve on the Thanksgiving plate? To find out, you’ll have to read this script right to the very end!
When you order this title, you receive both a Readers Theater Version and a Choral Speaking Version. Both are for Upper Primary/Lower Intermediate Readers and Voice Choirs. In addition, you receive a Finger Play script, P-35 Turkey in the Barnyard for Lower Primary students. 3 pages in length.
RT VERSION includes an ALL chorus (speaking and singing) and features 6 Readers including Turkey and Piggy character parts. 6 ½ pages in length. CHORAL SPEAKING/READING VERSION is formatted for ALL, ALL GIRLS, and ALL BOYS, (speaking and singing). 6 ½ pages in length.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-28/P-34 THE LOST PETS
(Value-Added: 3 Scripts for the Price of One). Three versions of a short script for primary and lower intermediate readers:
1. P-34 Readers Theater Script for Non-Readers and Beginning Readers. 1 Narrator (teacher or older reader) and Repetitive (ALL) Lines for the Entire Class. (6 pages in length).
2. P-34 Readers Theater Script for Primary Readers Who Can Read Simple Phrases and Sentences. 1 Narrator (teacher or older reader), 10 Easy-Reader Solo Parts, All Girl and All Boy Parts, and Repetitive (ALL) Lines Throughout. (5 pages in length).
3. CH-28 Choral Speaking Script for Upper Primary or Lower Intermediate Voice Choirs. (5 pages in length).
For more information and sample pages, please click HERE.
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Single Title, not included in above collection, $14.95:
CH-32 THE HOLIDAYS ARE COMING!
A Short Shared Reading Script Featuring Choral Reading and Read-Aloud Solo Parts.
This holiday script is based on an old English Nursery Rhyme“Christmas is Coming”:
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat
Please to put a penny in the old man's hat;
If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do,
If you haven't got a ha'penny then God bless you!
The words of the nursery rhyme "Christmas is Coming" are historically associated with the traditional English Christmas celebration and the serving of geese for the Christmas feast. The meaning that was conveyed to children through this rhyme was that during this festive period, each should give to charity, according to their means.
In this modernized version, pennies, candy canes, and presents are suggested as good things to put "in the old man's hat". In the end, the readers find what they believe to be the perfect gift for the old man: their friendship and an invitation to Christmas dinner!
ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, 4 SOLO READING PARTS, ALL CHORUS. 4 pages in length.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-35/P-38 THE CHRISTMAS TREASURE
$14.95: 2 Scripts in One Value Added Package!
This is a Read and Draw Story. Two little mice go off for a walk in the snow. They find a lost bell and decide to have some fun with it. Little by little the bell, two sledding hills, the sun, a dark cloud, a circle, and the mice, of course, help transform their "perfect bell" into a true Christmas treasure - a glimmering, shimmering Christmas tree angel!
A Value Added Package: When you order this title, you receive both a Readers Theater Version and a Choral Speaking Version. Both are for Primary Readers and Voice Choirs.
RT VERSION: Teacher narrator and primary readers read-aloud this Readers Theater holiday story told in verse. Verses are read as simple shapes are drawn on blackboard or display pad. Christmas treasure - a glimmering, shimmering Christmas tree angel!
CHORAL SPEAKING/READING VERSION: same script formatted for ALL, ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, SOLO MOUSE 1, SOLO MOUSE 2.
For more information, please click HERE.
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Value-Added Package, $14.95: Two versions for the price of one.
CH-36/P-39 A VALENTINE RHYME: TAKE FIVE (Primary and Lower Intermediate)
Five fancy, funny, frilly, fantastic, and "fudgy" Valentines are sent off to win a Valentine's heart. The sender swears there is nothing too good for the intended. Well, almost nothing. The last cards are the most expensive, cost 50 cents each, and are filled with fudgy chocolates stuffed with "creamy peach". Too much temptation. Even on Valentine's day there is a limit to magnificence! For Young Readers and Voice Choirs.
When you order this title, you recieve both a RT VERSION and a CHORAL SPEAKING/READING VERSION.
For more information, please click HERE.
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Single Title, not included in above collection, $14.95:
CH-38 THE FREEDOM GOURD
In the 1800's, an old man named Peg Leg Joe passed an important song and its lyrics from slave to slave. Working as an itinerant carpenter, Joe spent winters in the South, moving from plantation to plantation, teaching the slaves a coded song that contained directions for an escape route to the north. At the end of the song's "drinking gourd" was the North Star, and the path of the North Star was the path to freedom.
This Choral Speaking/Reading script has been especially created for Primary Voice Choirs. This story, as described above, features ALL, ALL GIRL VOICES, ALL BOY VOICES, and TWO SOLO SPEAKER LINES. The script is written with rhyme, rhythm, and lots of repetition!
For more information, please click HERE.
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Value-Added Package, $14.95: Two versions, 4 scripts in all!
CH-41 SHADOW, SHADOW! (For Primary Readers who can read simple words and phrases)
What's more fun than a shadow? Why, it can follow you anywhere and, if the light is right, do exactly what you do. In this Readers Theater script, each reader has a shadow who either copies exactly what the reader has said, answers the reader's question about shadows, mimics the reader's movements - or does all three! A shadow, of course, ends up being a readers best friend. Who else will stick to you like glue and do exactly as you do?
When you purchase this title, you receive two versions or 4 scripts in all. One version contains a repetition of the same verse each time the All Chorus speaks. A second version contains different verses each time the All Chorus speaks. Both versions, including teacher and student reader scripts, are included in this package so that you may decide which works best for your particular readers.
For more information, please click HERE.
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This is a Value-Added Package, $14.95: Two versions for the price of one.
CH-42/P-45 THE TOWN WITH A VERY SPECIAL SOUND
If your primary students like trains, this might be a good script to try. The story is about a little town that has a very special sound. The town is surrounded by train tracks and, of course, the special sound comes from the many trains that pass through day and night.
The chorus of this script asks the readers to duplicate many of the sounds that come from trains. To make the reading even more fun, the chorus can be read to the rhythm of a real train as it chug-a-lugs along the tracks. These are easy-reader lines for children who can read simple words and phrases.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The train town in this story is based on a real town: Wellington, Ohio. Eighty to one hundred trains pass through this Ohio town in a 24-hour period, and the residents spend much of their time either waiting to cross train tracks or listening to train sounds. The trains might cause a lot of inconvenience, but they do help make this town a very special place!
When you order this title, you receive both a Readers Theater Version and a Choral Speaking/Reading Version.
RT VERSION is formatted for 10 SOLO READERS and an ALL CHORUS featuring as many readers as you’d like. You can also easily add up to 20 SOLO READER parts, if desired.
CHORAL SPEAKING/READING VERSION is formatted for ALL, ALL GIRL VOICES, and ALL BOY VOICES.
For more information, please click HERE.
Not yet on order form. To order, e-mail lois@scriptsforschools.com.
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This is a Value-Added Package, $14.95: Two versions for the price of one.
CH-43/P-46 IT MUST BE SPRING!
This script for Primary readers is written with repetition, rhythm, and rhyme and formatted for both Readers Theater and Choral Speaking/Reading. If your class is working on a "Spring Theme" or planning a parents' spring get-together of some kind, this might be just the performance script for you! It's not too long, it's fun to read and perform, and the vocabulary fits most primary levels.
This is a Value-Added Package. When you order this title, you receive both an RT version and a CHORAL version: Two scripts for the price of one!
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-45/Versions 1,2 (One title, two scripts) THE HANUKKAH HOMECOMING
This is a Value-Added Package, $14.95: Two versions for the price of one.
Two little mice go off for a walk in the woods. The sky grows dark and they lose their way. Each wants to find the path to home, but the large path in front of them looks too scary, dark, and gray. Instead they both run off in different directions trying to find other trails. Unfortunately, every other trail out of the woods seems to be a dead-end! Will the little mice ever find their way home? Of course they do – and they do it with the help of a Hanukkah Menorah!
Script length: 6 pages of reading text, 17 pages including illustrated lines and shapes to be drawn during the reading.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-46 HALLOWEEN WITCH! (Primary)
This is a free script. Please click HERE.
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CH-47 NINE GREEN GOBLINS (Primary)
Two teacher narrators (or older readers) narrate this story poem with the help of ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, ALL and a repetitive ALL CHORUS. The tale is about nine Halloween goblins who are really very hungry and wish for the kinds of food most youngsters like: pizza, hot dogs, macaroni, spaghetti, scrambled eggs, etc. When one of the goblins suggest that, as Halloween goblins, they should eat only candy, the narrators step in, invite the goblins home for a good dinner, then send them off to "trick or treat" for dessert. Yes, there's a lesson here, but it's a subtle one and lots of fun for your choral readers! This is a script for primary readers who can read simple words and phrases.
Script length: 5 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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CH-52 THE PYRAMID PROJECT
This is a combination Choral Reading and Readers Theater script that can be performed with either a small or a very large cast of readers. It can also be used with a variety of ages and reading levels, so please check the sample pages to see if it is right for your specific readers.
Teaching nutrition or trying to promote healthy eating at your school and using the U.S. Government Food Pyramid? "The Pyramid Project" involves readers in a story-poem project to build a pyramid - just like the Egyptians did long ago. Well, maybe this pyramid isn't exactly the same since it is all about food, the six basic food groups, and the pyramid section colors that make up the new government food pyramid found online at: http://www.mypyramid.gov.
Sound a bit stuffy? Well this script isn't. It's fast moving, offers a great deal of reading variety, and is lots of fun. What a great way to learn about healthy eating!
Script length: 8 1/2 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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