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We are pleased to announce that Scripts For Schools has been reviewed for educational relevance and usefulness by the teacher review panel of Schoolzone and has been awarded a Highly Recommended rating. Schoolzone is the UK's leading evaluation service for online educational resources.
Many thanks to you, Schoolzone! We truly appreciate your endorsement and hope teachers around the world feel the same.
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YES! This site features more than just Readers Theater scripts. We also offer a growing number of Traditional Play scripts, Choral Reading/Speaking scripts, and a few Puppet Play scripts written by teacher writers who understand the realities of the classroom. For script prices please click HERE.
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New to Readers Theater? What's the difference between RT and a Traditional Play Script? Please click HERE.
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Watch some short YouTube videos of Readers Theater in action. Please click HERE.
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LOOKING FOR "Readers Theater Scripts" BASED ON CLASSROOM TEACHING THEMES?
Examples: The Environment, Bullying, Desert Plants and Animals, Black History, Famous Explorers and Inventors, etc.
For a complete list of all our scripts organized by theme, please click HERE.
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ANTI-BULLY SCRIPTS! We've received a number of e-mails requesting information about scripts meant to promote the "building of character" and/or "anti-bullying". Yes, we have scripts that might help! Please click below. If you have a special project or request, please e-mail Lois. She might be able to write something for you that would specifically meet your needs.
CHARACTER BUILDING, please click HERE.
ANTI-BULLYING, please click HERE.
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Looking for a Mother's Day Read-Aloud?
This combination Readers Theater/Choral Speaking script has been created to honor all mothers by awarding them eight well-known and coveted awards. These awards include an Academy Award, a Pulitzer, a Miss Universe title, and The Best of Show! Ah, but there are so many more - and mother deserves them all...
For more information, please click HERE.
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Parent/Teacher Appreciation Day! This is a short Choral Speaking/Reading script created to thank parents and teachers for all they do. The script is free. To open and print, please click HERE.
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Teaching SHAKESPEARE to Jr. or Sr. High School Students? We're in the process of developing a series of "Shortened Shakespeare" scripts to help introduce students to some of Shakespeare's most well-known plays. For more information, please click HERE.
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NEW! BK-2 PLAYWRITING TEACHERS GUIDE AND TEACHING PACKAGE
Move Over Shakespeare, by Christine Harvey and Jennifer Zwiers
A practical step-by-step teachers' guide to teaching the art of playwriting to Jr. High and High School students. The writing of this guide was made possible by a grant from Curriculum Services Canada. The guide includes three complete one-act plays and two monologues for immediate classroom use. 139 pages. For more information, click HERE.
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(From Literacy Connections: Promoting Literacy and a Love of Reading).
"Lois Walker is one of my favorite Readers’ Theater writers. The stories Walker presents are humorous and engaging, but I particularly enjoy the lyrical manner in which she writes them."
http://literacyconnections.com/ReadersTheater.php
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I hope you'll enjoy a surf through our site. Please don't hesitate to contact me with questions, comments, or suggestions!
lois@scriptsforschools.com
Sincerely, Lois at Scripts for Schools
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LOIS WALKER, BA, MA: Lois is the publisher of Scripts For Schools and is a writer, teacher, and Canadian television personality. She is the creator of 4 successful television series for children, including Tell-a-Tale Town, which has been syndicated internationally, and Hands Up! Hands On!,which won a CAN-PRO Gold Award for excellence in Canadian Children's Programming.
Her Readers Theater stories, scripts and books have been published and featured worldwide by leading educational publishers, including Contemporary Drama Services (USA), Ginn, East/West Publishers, Taiwan, Pearson Australia, and Scholastic, among others. She recently returned from Taiwan where she conducted Readers Theater workshops in 7 different cities for more than 800 Taiwanese EFL teachers. Over the years, Lois has been seen regularly on YTV, CanWest Global Television network, and the Educational Channel, BookTV.
Lois is the proud mother of photographer, James Walker. His work can be seen online at: www.jameswalkerphotography.ca
