Readers Theater Scripts
These Scripts for Schools Readers Theater scripts were created as a way to involve students in reading. In Reader's Theater, students "perform" by sharing parts and reading aloud. This is usually done without costumes or props, but not always.
RT is a strategy that combines reading practice and performing. Its goal is to enhance students' reading skills and confidence by practising reading with a purpose. Reader's Theater gives students a real reason to read aloud – and that reason is usually to prepare for some kind of performance! The performance can be confined to small groups within a classroom who perform for each other, or expanded to include larger audiences within your community. Whatever the audience, Readers Theater reaps many benefits:
Benefits of Using Readers Theater in the Classroom or Library. Readers Theater helps to
- Develop fluency through repeated exposure to text.
- Increase comprehension.
- Integrate reading, writing, speaking, listening in an authentic context, engage students.
- Increase reading motivation.
- Create confidence and improve the self-image of students.
- Provide a real purpose for reading.
- Provide opportunities for cooperative learning.
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Hey, Hey, It's Valentine's Day! (Readers Theater)
Older Elementary School Readers
In this comical rhyming script, our Valentine-to-be not only explores a variety of delivery options, but also wraps him/herself in paper, showers in chocolate, is sprinkled with glitter, dusted with sugar, scrubs with smelly soap, and rolls in the glue. Ah, the things we do for love!
Price $14.95
Home Sweet Home, My Habitat!
Readers Theater, Older Elementary School Readers
This script was created to introduce or reinforce five important environmental terms: HABITAT, ADAPTATION, PROPAGATION/POLLINATION, ENDANGERED SPECIES, and FOOD CHAIN
Price $14.95
How the Jackrabbit Got His Long Ears
Readers Theater, Older Elementary School Readers
A Legend from the Sonoran Desert
Price $14.95
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How The Robin Got Its Red Breast (Older Elementary School Readers)
Readers Theater
Adapted from a Pacific Northwest Sechelt Indian Legend.
Price $14.95
How to Beat the Bully
Readers Theater Version, Older Elementary School Readers
A "victim" and a "bully" cross paths after school and sparks fly. A friend, two bystanders, and the victim's mother play a part in finding a way to outsmart that bully - once and for all.
Price $14.95
I'm an Ant!
Readers Theater, Older Elementary School Readers
Teaching a unit on insects? Here's a story poem about what it's like to be an ant! Eight readers tell us how busy a worker ant's life can be and, in doing so, impart a few important "ant facts" along the way.
Price $14.95
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If I Lived In Africa (RT, Older Elementary School Readers)
Readers Theater
If I lived in Africa, would I be a wild dog, a warthog, a meerkat, a cheetah, a camel, an antelope? Nope. A soon as I chose one, I think of another intriguing animal, and then I change my mind.
Price $14.95
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If I Were the Only Person (RT)
Readers Theater, Younger and Older Elementary School Readers
This is a script about good and bad manners in the elementary school. If you were the only person in this world, you wouldn't need good manners!
Price $14.95
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It Could Have Been Kate! (Readers Theater)
KLONDIKE HISTORY
Readers Theater Version, Grades 5-9
On August 17, 1896, a crew led by Skookum Jim Mason, a member of the Tagish First Nations, headed down the Yukon River looking for his sister Kate and her husband George Carmack.
Price $14.95
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It Must Be Spring (RT, Primary Version)
Readers Theater Version, Younger Elementary School Readers
Spring is here! How can we tell? Well, this script for Primary Readers features the many signs of spring including April showers, budding flowers, tiny chicks, newborn sheep, humming bees, hungry robins, and yucky-mucky mud puddles ready for stomping.
Price $14.95
