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CH-11. AT CHRISTMAS TIME
Too much hustle, bustle, and holiday shopping sometimes causes us to forget the reason we celebrate Christmas in the first place. This Choral Speaking script, written with rhythm and rhyme, talks about the time and energy used to "to fill each stocking with gifts for one and all," pushing through crowds at the mall, the search for the perfect tree, and endless concert rehearsals. Finally a little voice cries "STOP" and asks us to consider the true "reason for the season." Both a secular ending and a more spiritual ending are included so that voice choirs may chose and send just the right message.
In this Choral Speaking version of the piece the VOICE CHOIR speaks in unison and GIRL VOICES, BOY VOICES, and SOLO VOICES also take special lines. A copy of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide is available under Free Teacher Aids in the drop down menu on our Home Page. Script length: 4 pages of reading text. Performance time: 3-4 minutes.
For sample pages, please click HERE.
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CH-13. THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
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, of course, but lots of added fun with a hand-clapping, toe-tapping approach to the telling.
Lois has formatted this as a Choral Speaking script for intermediate voice choirs. During this version, 8 SOLO SPEAKERS speak special lines, ALL BOYS and/or ALL GIRLS speak in unison together, and ALL VOICES speak in unison together. If you truly like the three R's, this one's for you! A copy of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide is available under Free Teacher Aids in the drop down menu on our Home Page. Script Length: 5 pages. Performance time: 5 minutes.
For sample pages, please click HERE.
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CH-14. THIS SAGUARO IS FINE
If you live in a desert area or are studying desert plants and animals, this Choral Speaking script will become a popular addition to your collection. The Saguaro Cactus, the state flower of Arizona, is composed of a tall, thick, fluted, columnar stem, 18 to 24 inches in diameter, often with several large arm-like branches curving upward. The largest plants, with more than 5 arms, are estimated to be 200 years old. During its lifetime, the Saguaro serves as a home to a number of dessert critters and is sometimes referred to as a "critter hotel".
This script tells the Saguaro story using rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus and is formatted for intermediate voice choirs. A copy of our Choral Speaking Teacher's Guide is available under Free Teacher Aids in the drop down menu on our Home Page. Script length: 4 pages. Performance time: 3-4 minutes.
For sample pages, please click HERE.
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CH-15. IF I LIVED IN AFRICA
If I lived in Africa, would I be a wild dog, a warthog, a meerkat, a cheetah, a camel, an antelope? Nope. The second I chose one, I think of another intriguing animal, and then I change my mind. In this rhyming story, the storyteller's indecision finally leads to the inevitable:
There are oh so many animals,
But I think you'll agree
That if I lived in Africa,
I'd just be me!
Formatted for a voice choir with special lines for both female and male sections and 5 solo speakers. 6 pages in length. For this script, teacher information and student text are combined in this one version.
For sample pages, please click HERE.
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CH-16/I-75 THE PACKRAT'S HOME
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Dropped a dime in the desert, popped a button in the sand. Lost a marble near a cactus, and I'm sure you understand - these things are gone forever. They're not just out on loan. Now piled with chunks of cholla, ARE A PACKRAT'S HOME! This rhyming story continues on to describe how the tiny packrat builds his desert home from "found objects." Should members of the voice choir be concerned about their bikes, their computers, their family cars? Will they too, mixed with cholla, be a packrat's home?
Formatted for a voice choir with special lines for both female and male sections and 4 solo speakers. For this title, teacher information and student text are combined in this one version. 3 pages in length.
For sample pages, please click HERE.
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CH-17. A TORTOISE, OF COURSE
What's that moving on the land, almost invisible in the sand, close to the ground, patiently plodding, treading slowly, tenderly bobbing, bald head weaving, bouncing, nodding? See? What can it be?
It's a tortoise.
Tortoise, of course.
Of course a tortoise,
It isn't horse.
And right on course,
A desert force,
Is the tortoise
Of course!
This story takes a poetic look at a desert tortoise slowly moving across the sand of a North American desert. Formatted for a voice choir with special lines for both female and male sections and 3 solo speakers. For this script, teacher information and student text are combined in this one version.
4 pages in length.
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CH-18. WE DON'T LIKE ARITHMETIC
Well, some people do, of course, but this particular choral speaking script lets the "math anxiety" folks have their say. Happily, they say it with a twinkle in their eyes and their senses of humor intact:
Fractions are atrocious, they're just a crying shame.
And who invented decimals? He prob'ly changed his name!
And then there is geometry, or much worse - algebra.
And now they've brought in metric. Well, there ought-a be a law!
The formatting features a solo voice and male and female voices speaking separately and together. 3 ½ pages in length.
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CH-19. FOREST FIRE!
This choral speaking script was created to remind voice choirs and audiences that forest fires can be started in more than one way. In this narrative poem, a group of campers think they are properly putting out their camp fire only to have it flare after they leave the campgrounds. As the fire grows and spreads:
The flames at first licked at the grass and then they jumped up higher,
And soon the trees were candle-ing, each trunk a funeral pyre.
From tree to tree the red flames flew, the green all turned to black
And when the wind stirred in the west. there was no turning back.
At the end of this piece, the campers gather together and learn about the fire on the TV news. Then, unknowingly, they blame the devastation on others. But, just like Smoky The Bear, this script reminds us: "Only YOU can prevent forest fires!"
The formatting features solo, character, and quartet parts, plus male and female voices speaking separately and together.
5 pages in length.
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CH-20. THE RED PLANET
When the red planet, Mars, "came out to play" in August of 2003, it caught the attention and the imagination of the world. This choral speaking script tries to re-capture the sights and feelings connected with the appearance of Mars in our evening skies. The script ends:
For the gravity of Jupiter tugged Mars from off its flight,
And sent it near to earth for just a while.
We stayed up late in August to see Mars, so rarely bright.
We think it made the solar system smile!
The formatting features 4 solo parts and male and female voices speaking separately and together.
2 ½ pages in length.
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CH-21. SASQUATCH
Does a creature named Sasquatch or Big Foot really exist? This choral speaking script explores that question using rhythm, rhyme, and humor. Intermediate to advanced voice choirs will enjoy the challenging rhythmic pace and clever use of words:
They say it's in the forest hiding far from prying eyes.
It's greatly taller than a man and weighs in twice our size.
Its smell is strong and pungent and it's hairy - head to toe.
Which, if you've never seen it, is an awful lot to know!
The formatting features 9 solo parts and male and female voices speaking separately and together.
5 pages in length
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CH-22. WE ARE ANTS!
Teaching a unit on insects? Here's a story poem about what it's like to be an ant! This Choral Speaking script tells how busy a worker ant's life can be and, in doing so, imparts a few important "ant facts" along the way. There's always something fascinating to learn about the tiny ant, including the names of ant body parts like petiole, thorax and gaster! Did you know an ant can carry five times his/her weight? An upbeat rhythm and some strategic hand clapping in just the right places makes this poem a delight to perform.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-23. MRS. SUMMER-FALL-WINTER-SPRINGTIME
An original poem about the seasons featuring rhythm and rhyme for Beginning/Intermediate Voice Choirs. The formatting includes all voices, 11 solo lines, all males, all females, and some quartet lines but, of course, you can divide up the lines in any way that works for your choir.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-25/I-82 SLOW DOWN CHRISTMAS
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This script features rhythm and rhyming words. Christmas is coming way too fast! The shopping isn’t done, the wrapping paper is lost, three trees have already been rejected, and there’s still no turkey to “put on the plate”. Why can’t we slow everything down and have Christmas next July? Or, maybe it’s a better idea to slow down and think about what’s really important at Christmas time!
For more information, please click HERE.
View sample pages HERE.
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CH-26/I-83 THE STORY OF THE NINES TIMES TABLE
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This script features rhythm and rhyming words. Looking back, I always had trouble with the Nine Times Table. And so, in memory of those agonizing school days, I have written a script about that very table. If this script can help any young person master those pesky NINES, I'll be delighted!
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-27/I-84/P-35 THE THANKSGIVING ESCAPE
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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!
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-29/I-86/P-37 RUN TURKEY RUN!
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Five fat turkeys stand in a line and survey their kingdom. They proudly fluff their feathers, prance, twist, and turn. They know Thanksgiving is coming, but they’re not worried. They have plans to run away long before the hungry farmer comes to look for them. And, of course, they do. When the barnyard gate is left open, the five fat turkeys do just as they had been planning all along, they run!
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-30/I-87 RING THOSE CHRISTMAS BELLS!
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A Christmas combination choral reading/reader script about the gift-bringers in America, Canada, England, Holland, Sweden, Italy, and Iceland. These countries were chosen because the stories and legends of their gift-bringers are so colorful and varied!
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-31/I-88 ODE TO A THANKSGIVING BRUSSELS SPROUT
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So, Thanksgiving dinner means you have to eat another Brussels sprout? Ah, come on - give it a try! Listen to us read an Ode to a Thanksgiving Brussels Sprout. We may just talk you into it. Formatted for ALL, ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, and 1 to 4 SOLO READING PARTS.
To view sample pages, click HERE.
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CH-33/I-89 HEY, HEY, IT'S VALENTINE'S DAY!
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Mail Myself To You
I'm gonna wrap myself in paper.
I'm gonna dab myself with glue.
Stick some stamps on top of my head.
I'm gonna mail myself to you.
This is a choral script inspired by the poem above.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-34/I-91 THE CUPID ENCOUNTER
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This script features rhythm and rhyming words. Valentine's Day may be just around the corner, but not everyone looks forward to dealing with the dreaded CUPID. The little guy with the bow and arrow wants our readers to make way too many decisions! Some of them are: Who will be your valentine, what kind of card will you send, what type of gift will you give, how about your choice of romantic music?
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-37 I-94 POP UNTIL WE DROP: A POPCORN STORY
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This story poem explores the life of a popcorn seed from soil to cooking pot and imparts a few important "popcorn facts" along the way. There's always something fascinating to learn about plants, especially this popular confection.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-38 PEG LEG JOE AND THE DRINKING GOURD
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An old man named Peg Leg Joe passed the 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 this escape route. At the end of the "drinking gourd" was the North Star, and the path of the North Star was the path to freedom.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-44 HAVE FUN WITH ENGLISH
(Alternate title: HAVE FUN WITH READING)
This script was originally written as a special request from a college education student in Malaysia. His department was sponsoring an EFL "Have Fun With English Day" and he wanted a script that did just that. The script turned out to be so much fun that we thought it could be used by EFL, ESL, and other English Speaking Voice Choirs everywhere. We hope you feel the same.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-48 THAT'S WHAT BULLIES DO!
This script was conceived and written as a way to involve student readers in a campaign to stamp out bullying. The "pledge" referred to in the script is an Anti-bullying Pledge that concerned students are asked to sign. A copy of the pledge can be found at the end of this script and can also be found online at: http://drphil.com/shows/show/115/.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-49 HOLIDAY HARVEST, THANKSGIVING TIME!
A quick search on the internet will yield a number of pages about The First Thanksgiving and the foods the pilgrims probably enjoyed on that special occasion. Does the menu differ from the Thanksgiving foods we eat today? Well, yes, and the differences are interesting and sometimes surprising! Some of the food may be different, but the reason for Thanksgiving has remained basically the same throughout the years. It is a time to be grateful.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-50/I-107 IF I WERE THE ONLY PERSON
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This script was written for a mixture of reading level skills, so many of the lines work for Intermediate students. If you were the only person in this world, you wouldn't need good manners. However, there are lots of people on our planet and good manners help everyone get along together!
This is a script about good and bad manners in the elementary school. It features reading lines for both Primary and Intermediate readers (and possibly a teacher or two). The script is written in both poetry and prose. If you were the only person in this world, you wouldn't need good manners. However, there are lots of people on our planet and good manners help everyone get along together!
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH.RT-52 THE PYRAMID PROJECT
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!
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH.RT-53 THE BOOK REPORT
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.
During the reading of this script, the entire class learns to divide a book report into 6 important sections: Title, Author, Setting, Main Characters, Conflict, and Conclusion. The students do this by reading together - and in rhyme yet! Doesn't sound like material for a great read-aloud script, does it? Well, you might be surprised.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH.RT-54 IF YOU WON’T BE MY VALENTINE
A combination Choral Reading/Readers Theater script for Intermediate readers. If you won't be my Valentine, what will I do? This script explores all those many possibilities: Cause a scene, go beyond the extreme, pine and whine, not feel fine, fidget, frown and fuss, mope, not cope, fight and bite? The list goes on and on. In the end, the problem is solved by one of the wise and more realistic solo readers. If you won't be my Valentine, I'll just have to find somebody else! What a concept! A tongue-in-cheek look at finding just the right Valentine.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH.RT-55 A VEGETABLE VALENTINE
A combination Choral Reading/Readers Theater script for Elementary School readers.
"You may not carrot all for me,
You may turnip your nose.
But if your heart could beet with mine,
Forever lettuce hope,
There is no reason in this world
Why we two canteloupe."
This Valentine script was inspired by the 6-line poem above. It was found on the Internet and the author is unknown. Our script is a much expanded version, and includes 18 garden plants in a completely new read-aloud story-poem. Most of the plants named can be found in the vegetable garden including sage (a plant leaf used for seasoning). However, there is one imposter! The cantaloupe is mentioned, and it is a fruit. You might ask your students to identify the one non-vegetable in the group.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH.RT-56 AN EARLY VISIT FROM SANTA CLAUS
This is a combination Choral Reading/Readers Theater script for the elementary school. Teacher or older student reads Santa's lines. It would make a perfect performance for your library or school assembly program.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH.RT-57 MIMIC, ADAPT, AND DECEIVE!
Teaching a unit on how plants, insects, and animals must mimic, adapt, or deceive to survive? If so, this script might turn out to be a great teaching aid! After reading it aloud, it would be difficult not to remember what the words mimic, adapt, and deceive actually mean in Mother Nature's world.
In this story-poem script, corn plants, orchids, inchworms, frogs, plant traps, and butterflies all have an important survival story to tell.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-58/I-108 BABUSHKA’S STORY
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A Russian Christmas Legend for Intermediate to Advanced Readers.
Grandmother Babushka brings gifts to the children of Russia each Christmas Eve. She is an important "gift-giver" there and her story has become a well-known Christmas legend. Why does she wander from home to home, sneaking up the stairs, examining each child's sleeping face, and leaving three gifts beside each pillow? Because she is seaching for the Christ-Child!
This story-poem tells how the shepherds, while following the star, stop at Babushka's door and invite her to journey with them. She is tempted, but decides to enjoy her bed and warm fire instead.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-59 YESTERDAY
A Choral Speaking/Reading script for Intermediate to Advnaced Readers.
"YESTERDAY" the world moaned, groaned, cried, and sighed about what has been happening to our environment. The world also wondered why we humans continue to blunder! So do the readers of this serious piece about our environmental woes. They face poluted soil, trash in the sea, chemicals in our water supplies, mass cutting of the rainforests, smog in the air, and over-consumption everywhere. But "TODAY" has arrived and all is not lost...
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-61/I-109 THE GAME
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This script catches the essence of a high school basketball game in progress. Many of the sights, sounds, and excitement, as experienced by the crowd, are written into the script.
If you are a Choral Speaking/Reading director, you'll especially enjoy the many "onomatopoeia words" used in the rhyming text. This script is written with words that, when spoken aloud, sound like what they mean.
Onomatopoeia is defined as:
(1) The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss).
(2 )The use of words whose sound suggests the sense
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-62 MAGICAL, MYSTICAL, MEMORY TRICKS!
This script is based on "The Locus System of Memory", introduced by the Greek poet, Simonides, over 2,500 years ago and used by the Greeks and Romans. The system involves visualizing a mental picture for each item you want to remember, then mentally placing it in a locus (or place) where it can easily be found and remembered when needed. During the Dark Ages, the system was taught as one of the black arts, and called the “Secret Art of Memory”.
Knowing how young readers enjoy Harry Potter and his “black arts”, Lois Walker decided to take one small part of The Locus System of Memory, give it a magical/mystical overview, and write it as a Choral Speaking/Reading script for young readers.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-63/110 TELL US ABOUT THE USA
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Understanding how our constitution was conceived and what it means isn't easy, especially if you're still in elementary school. This script was written to introduce young readers to just those concepts. It's a simplified version, but most of the important facts are included and should provide the beginnings of a "Constitution Overview". The script ends with the readers exclaiming how proud they are to be a part of the U.S.A!
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CH-64/I-112 A FASHIONABLE GHOST
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What do you do with a gal ghost who shows up on Halloween night dressed in a trendy orange vest, lime green flip flops by Gumbie, a Lululemon skirt, a cap from The Gap, and a Gucci hand bag? You take a page from the "What Not To Wear" TV series and lend the girl a sheet!
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-65 LET THE GRANDPARENTS DO IT!
This is a script inspired by a short comic poem about letting grandparents "spoil" a newly born baby. We've expanded the idea to include 5 stages of a growing child's life: newborn, toddler, youngster, child, and finally, young adult. Each stage talks about the wonderful, brave, wise, loving, caring, and sometimes silly things our grandparents often do! Since they are so good at doing all these things, why not simply "Let the Grandparents Do It"? What a concept!
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-66.P-51.I-116 SPEAK UP, REACH OUT, BE A FRIEND (Combination Choral Reading/RT)
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What is bullying behavior? And, once you know how to recognize it, what can individual students do to help stamp it out? This script addresses both questions as readers unite to "speak up, reach out, and be a friend".
For more information, please click HERE.
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P-52.I-125.CH-70 HOW TO BEAT THE BUG (Combination Choral Reading/RT)
Here's a great way to get out information about the H1N1 virus and what we all can do to help protect ourselves during the flu season.
The script is a Readers Theater/Choral Reading Combination and has been created for a variety of ages and reading levels. Older readers (or a combination of teachers and older readers) can take the major solo Readers Theater lines. Older readers can also take part as "Swine Flu Chorus" members. Primary readers can rehearse and perform the jump rope rhyming poem at the end of the script.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-71 WHY EVERGREEN TREES KEEP THEIR LEAVES (Intermediate/Advanced Readers)
We all know the folktale about the injured bird who can't fly south for the winter and, in the end, makes it possible for our evergreen trees to keep their leaves during winter. This story-poem is based on that folktale and also borrows a few lines from an old English nursery rhyme to help set the stage.
The script is formatted for both Choral Reading/Speaking and Readers Theater and can be performed at any time during the year. However, the story-poem has also been re-written as a Christmas script for performance during the holidays. And so, this is a value-added title. When you order this title, you receive THREE versions for the price of one!
For more information, please click HERE.
