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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Worry Warts

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: White Wolf

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Rhymes Ruined

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "When I Was a Baby" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site provides poetry theater for emergent young readers. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will engage in "When I Was a Baby": A Poem in Two Voices. Students will read...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "My Thumbies" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "My Thumbies" poetry theater, students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a mother who is trying to get her child to stop...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Readers' Theatre for Kapiti Plain

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This readers' theatre of Verna Aardema's Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain crosses the curriculum to incorporate language arts, social studies, and science objectives. Students will become familiar with the text of the story and then...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Guest Readers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Mix up reading time by having your own students transform into guest readers. Have students act out the book, read, or show illustrations.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Retelling the African Folktale Abiyoyo

For Teachers K
This lesson students will listen to an African folktale, Abiyoyo. Students will engage in role-playing to retell Abiyoyo through the use of reader's theater.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Cinderella: A Character With Culture

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will engage in a Reader's Theater adaptation of Cinderella after reading several different versions that come from various cultures. Students will complete a graphic organizer with story elements that apply to the story Cinderella.
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PBS

Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Theater: "Mithing Tooth" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "Mithing Tooth", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from Kenn Nesbitt's The Aliens Have Landed at Our School!'s poem, students will dramatize a poem about a child who is missing a tooth and gets upsets when his...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "How to Delay Your Bedtime" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "How to Delay Your Bedtime," students will participate in a poem in four voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child who tries to delay his bedtime.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "The Bus" Poetry Theater: A Poem in 12 Voices

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This activity uses the poem entitled "The Bus" and is adapted by Robert Pottle from the collection entitled I'm Allergic to School, published by Meadowbrook Press. Students will share the responsibility of reading lines of this poem...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Empty Headed" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Empty Voices", students will participate in a poem in many voices. Adapted from the poem by Linda J. Knaus in Miles of Smiles, students will dramatize a poem that describes all of the crazy things that they have seen.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Don't Pinch!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Don't Pinch!", students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in his My Dog Ate My Homework! poetry collection, students will dramatize a poem about a child who discovers why his friends...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improving Fluency Through Group Literary Performance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
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Other

Madeleine L'engle: A Wrinkle in Time: Resources for Teachers

For Students 4th - 8th
Featuring Madeleine L'Engle, this module provides numerous learning resources for teachers. Study guides, curriculum guides, reader's theater story adaptations, instructional videos, and spaces for student exemplars are provided.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Don't Suck Your Thumb" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Don't Suck Your Thumb", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a child who finds a substitute for...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "When the Bubble Burst" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "When the Bubble Burst", students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a child who gets in trouble for...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "We're Going Skiing" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "We're Going Skiing", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from I Hope I Don't Strike Out!'s poem by Eric Ode, students will dramatize a poem about a child who gets a surprise when she goes skiing.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "A Lesson Learned" Poetry Theater: A Poem in Two Voices

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "A Lesson Learned", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework! and If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a skydiver...

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