P-16 ARDITH MAGEE AND THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SPREE (Primary Version)
Ardith Magee has four pets: an alligator, an armadillo, an anteater, an antelope, and an antosaurus. She decides to take each on a Christmas shopping spree to the local mall. Ardith's pets buy advent calendars, acoustic guitars, antbrittle,ankle bracelets, candied applies, and airline tickets to Australia. On Christmas morning Ardith's mother receives a box of Aunt Anna's All-American Apricot Jellies and Jams. Her father receives a pair of hot pink angora socks. By now, of course, you've noticed that Ardith's Christmas is filled with "A" words! The best gift, however is an L word -LOVE, and that gift is given when the antosaurus dries his tears and wishes everyone a "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" (PRIMARY ) (Teacher narrates, whole class participates.)
Script length: 7 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-29 ARDITH MAGEE AND THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SPREE (Intermediate Version)
Same wonderful plot as in the primary version of this tale, but parts are divided amongst narrators, Ardith, Mother, and Father who describe the Christmas shopping sprees of their pet alligator, armadillo, anteater, antelope, and antosaurus. The animals shop for the perfect Christmas gift, buying advent calendars, acoustic guitars, antbrittle, ankle bracelets, candied applies, and airline tickets to Australia. On Christmas morning, however, the most treasured gift is the gift of LOVE and it is given by Ardith who dries the antosaurus's tears and wishes the whole family a "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" (INTERMEDIATE ) (4 Readers)
Script length: 8 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-65 THE SHOEMAKER AND THE ELVES (Intermediate)
This Readers Theater script has been written as a Christmas play, 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! The script follows the traditional fairy tale plot and includes visits from a hungry traveler, with whom the couple share the last of their meager food, two thoughtless and unkind customers, and as many wonderful elves as you care to create. Moral of the story: What goes around, comes around.
READERS NEEDED:
READER 1: Shoemaker
READER 2: Shoemaker's Wife
READER 3: Rich Lady and Elf #1
READER 4: Rich Man, Elf #2, Narrator
READER 5: Elf #3
NUMBER OF SCRIPT PAGES: 9 ½ including director/teacher's notes and suggested blocking.
View sample pages HERE.
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I-70 AT CHRISTMAS TIME (Intermediate and up)
Too much hustle, bustle, and holiday shopping sometimes causes us to forget the reason we celebrate Christmas in the first place. This Readers Theater script, written with rhythm and rhyme, talks about the time and energy used to "to fill each stocking with gifts for one and all," pushing through crowds at the mall, the search for the perfect tree, and endless concert rehearsals. Finally a little voice cries "STOP" and asks us to consider the true "reason for the season." Both a secular ending and a more spiritual ending are included so that readers may chose and send just the right message. This version of the script is formatted for 6 to 11 intermediate readers. Reading time: Approximately 3 minutes.
RT script length: 4 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-82/CH-25 SLOW DOWN CHRISTMAS (Intermediate and up)
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2 Scripts in One Value Added Package!
This script features rhythm and rhyming words. Christmas is coming way too fast! The shopping isn’t done, the wrapping paper is lost, three trees have already been rejected, and there’s still no turkey to “put on the plate”. Why can’t we slow everything down and have Christmas next July? Or, maybe it’s a better idea to slow down and think about what’s really important at Christmas time!
A Value Added Package: When you order this title, you receive both a Readers Theater Version and a Choral Speaking Version. Both are for Intermediate Readers and Voice Choirs.
RT Version includes an ALL chorus and features 5 to 30 readers so it can easily be adjusted to meet your needs. 10 pages in length. CHORAL Version is formatted for ALL, ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, AND 5 SOLO VOICES. 7 ½ pages in length.
RT script length: 10 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-68 SLOW DOWN CHRISTMAS (Primary Version)
This script features rhythm and rhyming words. Christmas is coming way too fast! The shopping isn’t done, the wrapping paper is lost, three trees have already been rejected, and there’s still no turkey to “put on the plate”. Why can’t we slow everything down and have Christmas next July? Or, maybe it’s a better idea to slow down and think about what’s really important at Christmas time!
The script has been especially edited and re-created for primary students who can read simple words and phrases.
Formatted for ALL, ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, and 5 SOLO READERS.
Script length: 8 1/2 pages of reading text. For sample pages, please click HERE.
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CH-30/I-87 RING THOSE CHRISTMAS BELLS! (Intermediate and up)
A Christmas combination choral reading/reader script about the gift-bringers in America, Canada, England, Holland, Sweden, Italy, and Iceland. These countries were chosen because the stories and legends of their gift-bringers are so colorful and varied!
DID YOU KNOW that in Iceland, thirteen Yuletide Lads bring gifts to children and also play nasty tricks on them? Did you know that, in Holland, Sintirklass leaves the gifts, but bad children are sometimes chased by Black Peter with a stick? Did you know that, in Sweden, St. Lucia's Day is celebrated by a girl dressed in a white dress with a red sash around her waist and a crown of lights on her head?
For more information, please click HERE.
Script length: 9 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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CH-32 THE HOLIDAYS ARE COMING! (Primary Readers)
A Short Shared Reading Script Featuring Choral Reading and Read-Aloud Solo Parts.
This holiday script is based on an old English Nursery Rhyme“Christmas is Coming”:
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat
Please to put a penny in the old man's hat;
If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do,
If you haven't got a ha'penny then God bless you!
The words of the nursery rhyme "Christmas is Coming" are historically associated with the traditional English Christmas celebration and the serving of geese for the Christmas feast. The meaning that was conveyed to children through this rhyme was that during this festive period, each should give to charity, according to their means.
In this modernized version, pennies, candy canes, and presents are suggested as good things to put "in the old man's hat". In the end, the readers find what they believe to be the perfect gift for the old man: their friendship and an invitation to Christmas dinner!
ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, 4 SOLO READING PARTS, ALL CHORUS. 4 pages in length.
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P-38/CH-35 THE CHRISTMAS TREASURE (Primary, Lower Intermediate)
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2 Scripts in One Value Added Package!
This is a Read and Draw Story.
RT Version: Teacher narrator and primary readers read-aloud this Readers Theater holiday story told in verse. Verses are read as simple shapes are drawn on blackboard or display pad.
Choral Version: Script is formatted for ALL, ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, SOLO MOUSE 1, SOLO MOUSE 2.
Two little mice go off for a walk in the snow. They find a lost bell and decide to have some fun with it. Little by little the bell, two sledding hills, the sun, a dark cloud, a circle, and the mice, of course, help transform their "perfect bell" into a true Christmas treasure - a glimmering, shimmering Christmas tree angel!
A Value Added Package: When you order this title, you receive both a Readers Theater Version and a Choral Speaking Version. Both are for Primary Readers and Voice Choirs.
Script length: 7 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-51 THE CHRISTMAS STAR
This is a story-poem choral reading/speaking script formatted for your elementary school or church voice choir. A proud star tells about that special night long ago when he/she was given the job of shining brightly above a lowly stable. The reading lines are shared by ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, ALL, and a number of SOLO READERS. The total number of readers used can be adjusted and is flexible. The script is just the right length to be included in a Christmas performance program or during church service.
Script length: 6 1/2 pages. For more information, please click HERE.
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CH.RT-56 AN EARLY VISIT FROM SANTA CLAUS
This is a combination Choral Reading/Readers Theater script for the elementary school. Teacher or older student reads Santa's lines. It would make a perfect performance for your library or school assembly program.
For more information, please click HERE.
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CH-58/I-108 BABUSHKA’S STORY
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2 Scripts in One Value Added Package!
A Russian Christmas Legend for Intermediate to Advanced Readers.
Grandmother Babushka brings gifts to the children of Russia each Christmas Eve. She is an important "gift-giver" there and her story has become a well-known Christmas legend. Why does she wander from home to home, sneaking up the stairs, examining each child's sleeping face, and leaving three gifts beside each pillow? Because she is seaching for the Christ-Child!
This story-poem tells how the shepherds, while following the star, stop at Babushka's door and invite her to journey with them. She is tempted, but decides to enjoy her bed and warm fire instead.
Script length: 5 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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I-118 THE GREAT CHRISTMAS PIE ESCAPE!
Early one morning in December, a sweet little grandmother decides it is time to make a Christmas pie. Her children and grandchildren are coming to visit during the holidays, and grandma wants to serve each of them some special pie. She has a problem, though. None of the families like the same kinds of pie! The plot thickens as grandma tries to make four different kinds of pies only to have each pie filling escape before she can finish her task!
Script length: 11 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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I-121 WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS
How many of us really know what we want for Christmas? In this rhyming script, readers ponder this age-old dilemma and realize there are many choices to be made. For example:
Hannah Montana Acoustic Guitar,
Ipod, Little Superstar,
And a gift from Fisher Price,
At Christmas time that would be nice!
Pok-e-mon and Playmobile?
All on sale, and what a deal!
Trendy clothes or trendy shoes,
At Christmas time we have to choose!
But there is a surprise ending. The choice is PEACH ON EARTH (although one of the readers reminds the audience that a few toys would be nice too)!
Script length: 5 1/2 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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Hanukkah Script
P-47 THE HANUKKAH HOMECOMING (Readers Theater Script for Primary Readers)
CH-45/Versions 1,2 (One title, two scripts) THE HANUKKAH HOMECOMING (Two Choral Readings Scripts for a Variety of Elementary School Reading Levels). Value Added.
Two little mice go off for a walk in the woods. The sky grows dark and they lose their way. Each wants to find the path to home, but the large path in front of them looks too scary, dark, and gray. Instead they both run off in different directions trying to find other trails. Unfortunately, every other trail out of the woods seems to be a dead-end! Will the little mice ever find their way home? Of course they do – and they do it with the help of a Hanukkah Menorah!
Script length: 6 pages of reading text, 17 pages including illustrated lines and shapes to be drawn during the reading.
For more information, please click HERE.
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TP-19 A Christmas Carol, Reduced (Intermediate to Advanced, 12 speaking roles)
The Christmas holidays just aren't complete without Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol". Here's a shortened version of that same story in script form. You can produce it as a traditional play or simply read it aloud as readers theater. Either way, this age old story comes to life again, as it does every year at Christmas time. The script has been created for Intermediate or Advanced Readers.
CAST OF 12: EBENEZER SCROOGE, BOB CRATCHIT, TINY TIM, MRS. CRATCHIT, JACOB MARLEY'S GHOST, GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST, GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT, GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE, SCROOGE'S NEPHEW, NEPHEW'S WIFE, HOUSEKEEPER, VOLUNTEER
Written by Lee Karvonen.
For more information, please click HERE.
Script length: 17 pages of reading text.
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CH-71/I-128 WHY THE EVERGREEN TREES KEEP THEIR LEAVES
We all know the folktale about the injured bird who can't fly south for the winter and, in the end, makes it possible for our evergreen trees to keep their leaves during winter. This story-poem is based on that folktale and also borrows a few lines from an old English nursery rhyme to help set the stage.
The script is formatted for both Choral Reading/Speaking and Readers Theater. The story-poem has also been re-written as a Christmas script for performance during the holidays. And so, this is a value-added title! When you order this title, you receive THREE versions for the price of one!
For more information, please click HERE.
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