Experience the joy of Reader’s Theater as words leap from the script and take center stage. Consider these five ways to use scripts in classrooms and library programming.
Celebrate diverse cultural experiences by exploring stories, folk tales, and fairytales from around the world.
Build background knowledge using nonfiction scripts to construct context and deepen understanding.
- Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles
Develop fluency, vocabulary and comprehension through repeated reading.
Put on a show and take your Reader’s Theater scripts to a full production! Listen to actress and author Julie Andrews Edwards explain the connections between books and performance.
Learn from Sharon Creech as she joins forces with Avi, Walter Dean Myers, and Sarah Weeks to share insights and strategies for using reader’s theater in the classroom. Then extend their experience by having students create their own reader’s theater scripts!
Explore the entire Reader’s Theater Collection on TeachingBooks and view this short video to find additional Reader’s Theater resources on TeachingBooks.
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