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Literal Lizzy is Introduced to Similes and Metaphors - Small Group R.T.
This is a small group reader's theater is for 3 students. This script introduces students to similes and metaphors and give them some practice with them. It does NOT explain the difference between them though because it is the first time students have encountered them. In the script, Literal Lizzy who I have used before on a simpler script, thinks that everything someone says is literal. This means that what is said is exactly what is meant. Billy and Wanda help her practice metaphors and simile
2nd - 5th, Adult Education
Drama, English Language Arts, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.2.4
, RF.2.4a
, RF.2.4b
+17
Hawthorn's Heroes Present Halloween Safety Tips- Small Group Reader's Theater
This script is for 3 students. It was written to remind students how to stay safe at Halloween as well as to give them practice in reading fluently. There is a small writing/discussion prompt at the end for students to respond to. My scripts are in black and white except the occasional picture on the front page to help you save money on printing. If you like this script look for more at my store! I even have a Halloween pack. I use this reader's theater to introduce many subjects as well as to
3rd - 6th, Adult Education
Classroom Community, Drama, Short Stories
CCSS
RL.6.10
, RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
+17
Pizza Palace: A Tasty One-Act Play
There's been a pet-knapping at Princess Pink's sleep-over at the palace. Detective Riley must investigate! Featuring: astronauts, aliens and a WNBA basketball player. An tasty one-act play. Ideal for clubs, enrichment or school fundraisers. Children in grades K-2 can practice turn-taking, reading lines, speaking and cooperating. A terrific Reader's Theater piece too!
K - 3rd
Character Education, Drama
CCSS
SL.1.1a
, SL.1.2
, SL.2.1a
+5
The Principal's New Clothes - Reader's Theater for the Entire Class!
This reader's theater is for the entire class! You will need at least 11 students but more is always better. This ties into my other twisted fairy tales except that it was written to do as a class. I split my class into two groups and both groups practice. When we perform we discuss what things we liked about each group. I use this to introduce the small group reader's theaters I have them do the rest of the year. I have also come back to the script at the end of the year to perform in front of
3rd - 8th, Adult Education
Drama, Reading, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+16
After the Ball - Small Group Readers' Theater
We are moving our site, wonbyone, to wonbyone2. Please pardon our dust!This small group reader's theater is for 4 characters. Ever wonder what happened after the ball and before Prince Charming found Cinderella? This is a twisted fairy tale that answers that question. I use reader's theaters to encourage my students to practice fluency. It is a fun way to do something that they need. Most of my scripts are in black and white so they photo copy easily. This one does have a colored picture on the
3rd - 6th
Drama, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+14
Literal Lizzy's Trip to the Store - Small Group Reader's Theater
This small group reader's theater is for three students. In this script, we were examining literal phrases. That is, when everything is taken to mean exactly what is said. Literal Lizzy only understands things in this way. We then used this Reader's Theater to begin a study on homonyms, homophones, and homographs. I use reader's theaters to encourage my students to practice fluency. It is a fun way to do something that they need. There is a small writing/discussion prompt at the end of the scr
2nd - 6th, Adult Education
Drama, English Language Arts, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.2.4
, RF.2.4a
, RF.2.4b
+16
The Principles New Clothes - Large Group Readers' Theater
We are in the process of moving our site, wonbyone, to wonbyone2. Please pardon out dust!This reader's theater is for the entire class! You will need at least 11 students but more is always better. This ties into my other twisted fairy tales except that it was written to do as a class. I split my class into two groups and both groups practice. When we perform we discuss what things we liked about each group. I use this to introduce the small group reader's theaters I have them do the rest of the
3rd - 10th, Adult Education
Character Education, Drama, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+14
Goldilocks Behind Bars - Small Group Readers' Theater
We are moving our site, wonbyone, to wonbyone2. Please pardon our dust!This small group reader's theater is for 3 students. In the script Goldilocks is a delinquent who broke into the three bears home. The police have arrested her with mama bear's jewelry in her pocket and are trying to get her to confess. I use reader's theaters to encourage my students to practice fluency. It is a fun way to do something that they need. My scripts are in black and white will very little cutesy stuff so they ar
3rd - 6th
Character Education, Drama, Reading
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+14
The Class Pet - Small Group Reader's Theater for First Grade Level Readers
This reader's theater was written for 4 students. It was written for students who are on a 1st grade reading level. In the script, the class is getting a pet. Nan, Pat, Bill, and Jon are trying to guess what the pet will be. They discuss problems that different animals may cause and decide that the class pet should be a fish. I used this script to help my phonics group practice and then, once they performed it, we wrote a persuasive paper asking the principal to let us have a pet. There is a sm
1st - 5th, Adult Education
Drama, Reading Strategies, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.1.4
, RF.1.4a
, RF.1.4b
+23
The Gobble Gobble Ghost - Small Group Reader's Theater for Halloween!
This small group reader's theater is for three students. In the script, there is a former turkey, turned ghost, who can't seem to scare anyone. A boy and girl come along to help out so everyone can have a happy Halloween. There is a small writing/discussion prompt at the end for your students to respond to. I use this reader's theater to introduce many subjects as well as to reinforce others and improve fluency. Reader's theater is a great way to motivate students to practice reading out loud.
3rd - 6th, Adult Education
Drama, Reading, Short Stories
CCSS
RL.6.10
, RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
+17
A Modern Day Rapunzel Story - Small Group Readers' Theater
We are moving our site, wonbyone, to wonbyone2. Please pardon our dust!This small group reader's theater was written for 3 students. Two parts are for girls and one part is for a boy. The story is about Rapunzel who is a normal girl with an unusual name. Prince, a normal boy with a dog's name, thinks he is living a fairy tale and comes to rescue Rapunzel. Rapunzel thinks he's crazy. This reader's theater is also in my twisted tales pack. I use reader's theaters to encourage my students to practi
3rd - 6th
Drama, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+14
Casey at the Bat - Small Group Rhyming Readers Theater by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
This Reader's Theater is for four students. This is the ballad of Casey at the Bat and was written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in 1888. I have not changed the words. I spaced it for the students and broke it into parts. The words that rhyme are in bold to help the students know which words to emphasize. The writing prompt after the script asks students to identify the moral or lesson in the story.The reason I chose this ballad for reader's theater is that it sounds wonderful when read aloud. Stud
3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Drama, Poetry, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+13
Waiter, There Is a Fly in My Soup! - First Grade Small Group Readers' Theater
This reader's theater was written for 3 students. It was written for students who are on a 1st grade reading level. In the sript, there is a fly in Sally’s soup. The waiter does not understand why there is a fly in it. He is confused and wants Adam and Sally to pay for the soup but not the fly. There is a small writing/discussion prompt at the end for your students to respond to.I use this reader's theater to introduce many subjects as well as to reinforce others and improve fluency. Reader's
K - 3rd, Adult Education
Drama, Reading, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.K.4
, RF.1.4
, RF.1.4a
+13
The Meeting of the Rails- HISTORICAL Small Group Reader's Theater for Two People
This is a small group reader's theater for two students. The subject is The Meeting of the Rails on May 10 1869. In the script, #2 does NOT know what golden spikes were used for and has confused it with vampires. There is a short writing/discussion prompt at the end for your students to respond to.I write small group reader's theaters so students will work better in centers and to avoid having long wait times between student's lines. Wait time is not reading time and often turns into off task
3rd - 6th, Adult Education
Drama, Short Stories, U.S. History
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+16
Goldilocks Behind Bars - TOTALLY Twisted Fairy Tales - Small Group R.T.
This small group reader's theater is for 3 students. In the script Goldilocks is a delinquent who broke into the three bears home. The police have arrested her with mama bear's jewelry in her pocket and are trying to get her to confess. There is a small writing/discussion prompt at the end for your students to respond to.I write small group reader's theaters so students will work better in centers and to avoid having long wait times between student's lines. Wait time is not reading time and oft
3rd - 9th, Adult Education
Drama, Reading, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+16
Beware the Bear Lake Monster! - Small Group Reader's Theater
This Reader's Theater is for 4 students. It is about a Utah tall tale - the Bear Lake Monster. In the script, Izzik went to Bear Lake Utah on a camping trip last weekend and thinks he may have seen the Bear Lake Monster. The monster is a Utah folk tale and the other students want to know more about it. Clare knows about it so she and Izzik tell them. By the end of the script Fatima is not interested in seeing the Bear Lake Monster but Luis is. There is a short writing assignment afterwards ask
3rd - 6th, Adult Education
Drama, Short Stories, Writing
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+16
The Boy Who Cried Wolf - Early Reader Aesop Small Group Reader's Theater
This script was written for three students. The script was written for students on a first grade reading level between an E and a J. The plot is as follows: There once was a boy who watched after his sheep. He grew bored and wanted to play tricks on the town people. He cried wolf and called for help when there was no wolf there. Soon they would not believe him when he called for help. One day, the wolf was there for real. When the boy called for help, no one came. There is a small writing/dis
1st - 3rd, Adult Education
Drama, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.1.4
, RF.1.4a
, RF.1.4b
+15
El Muy Mal Día de Nan! (Nan's Very Bad Day) - Teatro de lectura en grupos pequeñ
¡La traducción al español se encuentra a continuación!This script is translated and Somos Bob are my first attempts to write/translate in Spanish without my partner who has moved back to Mexico. This is a Spanish small group reader's theater is for 4 students. In the script, Nan is having a bad day. She left her key at home and she left the milk out when her dad called her. It got very warm. Her mom is mad at her. Nan’s friends help her feel better and tell Nan that things will be okay. There i
3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Character Education, Drama, Short Stories
CCSS
CCRA.R.10
, CCRA.W.10
, CCRA.SL.1
+2
The Scaredy Ghost - Small Group Reader's Theater
This script was written for four students and for Halloween. The main purpose of the story is to remind students that Halloween these days is all about pretending. In the script, Kim and James are out trick or treating when they find a ghost crying. It is crying because everything about Halloween scares it. Kim and James invite the ghost to go trick or treating with them so they can show the ghost why it shouldn’t be scared. By the end the ghost realizes that Halloween is about pretending to be
3rd - 6th, Adult Education
Drama, Reading, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+13
Will You Eat a Bug? - First Grade Small Group Reader's Theater
This reader's theater was written for 3 students. It was written for students who are on a 1st grade reading level. In the script, Matt likes to eat bugs. Fred and Nan want to know how they taste. Matt offers to eat one with them but Fred does not want to. My students, especially the ones struggling to read, still require motivation to improve and that is where Reader's Theater comes in. There is a small writing/discussion prompt at the end for your students to respond to.I use small group rea
K - 3rd, Adult Education
Drama, Reading, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.K.4
, RF.1.4
, RF.1.4a
+13
Hansel and Gretel - A Twist on an Old Story - Small Group Readers' Theater
We are moving our site, wonbyone, to wonbyone2. Please pardon our dust!This Reader's Theater is for 4 students. The theme is Hansel and Gretel but things don't happen the way they are said to in the original story. In the script, Hansel and Gretel have a step-mother and they are very poor. Their step-mother decides that life would be easier without them and leads them into the forest to get rid of them. That is where things begin to differ from the original. The stepmother is the one who never c
3rd - 6th
Character Education, Drama, Reading
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+14
Fairy Tales - Thumbelina - Small Group Readers' Theater
This is a small group reader's theater is for 4 students. In the script - a miller brags to the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. She cannot actually do this and a little man appears and offers to do the work for her. On the third day she has nothing to pay the little man with so she promises her first child. When the little man comes to get the child, the queen begs for a chance to keep it. The little man gives her three days to figure out what his name is. There is a writing p
3rd - 6th, Adult Education
Character Education, Drama, Short Stories
CCSS
RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
, RF.3.4b
+16
The Gobble Gobble Ghost - Small Group Readers' Theater
We are moving our site, Wonbyone, to Wonbyone2. Please pardon our dust!This small group reader's theater is for three students. In the scrip there is a former turkey, turned ghost, who can't seem to scare anyone. A boy and girl come along to help out so everyone can have a happy Halloween. My scripts are written in black and white except the occasional picture on front to make it easier and cheaper to print and make copies. My students enjoyed using this script to increase their fluency. I hope
3rd - 6th
Classroom Community, Drama, Reading
CCSS
RF.3.3
, RF.3.3d
, RF.3.4
+14
COYOTE TALES - How Coyote Got His Name - A Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a Native American tale about how Coyote got his name. This is for 5 to 9 students. He features prominently in a lot of stories of the Navajo and in many other tribes. I first saw this one online but have heard it from our Navajo teacher since. In the script, the animals all want to have a name of their very own. They ask Old Man to give them one and he tells them to arrive at dawn. Coyote is determined to be first by staying up all night. Just before dawn he falls asleep and awakens aro
3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Drama, Native Americans, Short Stories
CCSS
RL.6.10
, RF.3.4
, RF.3.4a
+17
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