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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THE RAT PRINCESS
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.
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THE ROLY RICE BALLS
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.
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THE ROLY RICE BALLS FROM TAIWAN
The rice balls roll into a hole under the nutmeg tree and when the old man follows to retrieve them, the adventure begins.
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THE SHOEMAKER AND THE ELVES - OLDER READERS
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!
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THE SIGN-UP - OLDER READERS
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.
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THE SORCERER'S SPRING ROLL
A Fairy Tale based on "The Gingerbread Man" for Beginning Readers.
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THE STORY OF CHU YUAN
A Readers Theater Script for Beginning Readers: The Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.
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THE STORY OF SUN MOON LAKE
Readers Theater Version, Younger Readers Origins of The Holding Ball Dance
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THE STORY OF THE DRAGON GOD OF RICE
Did you know The Lantern Festival is celebrated because of an old man's dream and a thirsty snake?
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THE STORY OF THE NINES TIMES TABLE - OLDER READERS
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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