Scripts for Schools

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

  1. Develop fluency through repeated exposure to text.
  2. Increase comprehension.
  3. Integrate reading, writing, speaking, listening in an authentic context, engage students.
  4. Increase reading motivation.
  5. Create confidence and improve the self-image of students.
  6. Provide a real purpose for reading.
  7. Provide opportunities for cooperative learning.

THE RAT PRINCESS

Readers Theater Scripts

A Rat King decides that his exceptional daughter must marry "only the most powerful in all the world." He sets forth on a journey to find the perfect husband.

THE ROLY RICE BALLS

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Japanese folklore contains many stories about kind people who live next door to mean people. In this version of that theme, a poor but kind old man follows three rice balls as they roll into a hole.

THE ROLY RICE BALLS FROM TAIWAN

Readers Theater Scripts

The rice balls roll into a hole under the nutmeg tree and when the old man follows to retrieve them, the adventure begins.

THE SHOEMAKER AND THE ELVES - OLDER READERS

Readers Theater Scripts

This has been written as a Christmas script, but may also be performed on any other occasion by simply changing the references to Thanksgiving, Easter, Mother's Day, or even the Shoemaker's wife's birthday!

THE SIGN-UP - OLDER READERS

Readers Theater Scripts

During recess, two students set up tables near the principal's office and attempt to sign other students up for two different teams: The DO TEAM and The DON'T TEAM. Each student wants to get the most sign-ups and thinks his/her team is better and totally different from the other.

THE SORCERER'S SPRING ROLL

Readers Theater Scripts

A Fairy Tale based on "The Gingerbread Man" for Beginning Readers.

THE STORY OF CHU YUAN

Readers Theater Scripts

A Readers Theater Script for Beginning Readers: The Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.

THE STORY OF SUN MOON LAKE

Readers Theater Scripts

Readers Theater Version, Younger Readers Origins of The Holding Ball Dance

THE STORY OF THE DRAGON GOD OF RICE

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Did you know The Lantern Festival is celebrated because of an old man's dream and a thirsty snake?

THE STORY OF THE NINES TIMES TABLE - OLDER READERS

Readers Theater Scripts

Readers Theater Version

The writer of this piece always had trouble with the Nine Times Table. And so, in memory of those agonizing school days, she has written a script about that very table.

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