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I-1 WHO SAID THAT?
An April Fools' Day tale. Stanley goes down to the river and meets a talking stick, rock, and fish. He runs away in horror and joins friends Sally, Alex, and Ginny. The group then meets a talking bicycle, dog, and tennis racquet. When they report these happenings to Officer Grundy, he does not believe them and is not amused. He knows it is April Fools' Day. The last laugh, however, is on us - and it happens right at the end of this story. (INTERMEDIATE) (8 Readers)
Script Length: 8 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-2 OUTFOXING THE SNAKE
Can you really outfox a snake? Ted Truefoot helps a snake who is caught between some rocks, then finds out that the snake plans to reward him with DEATH. Thank goodness the right fox comes along and settles the matter fairly and squarely (well, squarely anyway) and everyone except the snake is happy. (INTERMEDIATE) (6 Readers)
Script Length: 7 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-3 THREE WISHES
We make wishes all the time, but did you ever stop to think what would happen if they all came true? Lotta Goodhope and her husband Andy certainly never gave it much thought. If they had, Lotta wouldn't have found a sausage stuck to the end of her nose! Lotta's dilemma is finally resolved and an important lesson is learned in this adaptation of a favorite folktale motif. (INTERMEDIATE) (6 Readers )
Script Length: 8 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-4 THE HEN AND THE NEIGHBOR'S ROOSTER
Set in Canada. An extremely intelligent hen goes off in search of riches. She flies to Canada's capital city, Ottawa, and perches upon the Minister of Finance's rosewood desk. The hen ends up a prisoner in the nation's mint, but escapes from the Penny Place, the Nickle? Nook, the Quarter Quarters, and the Loon Room because she is an "extremely intelligent hen." A surprise ending and a very unhappy rooster complete the tale. (INTERMEDIATE) (6 Readers)
Script Length: 6 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-14 THE FAST SKIPPING POT
Back in the days when "pigs could whistle and pots could talk," a poor hungry husband and wife trade their skinny pig for an old cooking pot and are finally blessed with good fortune. The magical pot skips off to find adventure, tricks a troll, an ogre, and a witch into parting with their most prized possessions, and skips everyone off to the hinterlands in a vat of hamburger soup. (INTERMEDIATE) (6 Readers )
Script Length: 11 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-16 UNCLE RUSSELL AND THE POPLAR TREES
Mother Nature calls in Uncle Russell when she realizes she does not have time to paint white fluffy clouds into summer's clear blue sky. But Russell doesn't want the job. He's not used to big canvases, he doesn't have the right paint colours, and besides, his brushes are much too small. A long row of poplar trees solve Russell's problems and end up sporting silver-backed leaves for eternity. (INTERMEDIATE) (5 Readers )
Script Length: 8 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-17 EASTER DRAW AND READ
Readers and artists join forces to read this wonderful story told in verse. Readers read thirteen verses, but stop after each verse to draw a simple shape on the blackboard or display pad. The circus has come to town and has hung a banner inside the main tent announcing "Special Guest Star! Easter Thrills and More!" No one, including the clowns, knows the identity of the Special Guest Star. As one drawn shape is added to another, the mystery is solved. It's the Easter Bunny, of course, fluffy tail and all! A great tale for intermediate readers to practice and then perform for the primary grades. (INTERMEDIATE ) (4 Readers)
Script Length: 8 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-18 A THANKSGIVING SURPRISE
Another holiday story told in verse. Again readers read, but stop after each verse to draw a simple shape on the blackboard or display pad. The story begins: A poor hungry man, his wife, and a mouse, all lived together in a round sod house. (Circle shape is drawn to indicate the round house). The reading continues: Here is the house, round as can be. But there's more to this story than the EYE CAN SEE! Indeed there is! The story ends with the drawing of a turkey who is just in time for Thanksgiving! (INTERMEDIATE) (4 Readers)
Script Length: 8 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-21 THE DINOSAUR'S DINNER
A young girl meets a Brontosaurus who wants to come to breakfast, an Anatosaurus who wants to come to lunch, a Stegasaurus who wants to come to tea, and a Brachiosaurus who wants to come to dinner. She's delighted, but can't find a menu to please any of them. They turn down bacon, hot dogs, and cold cuts, then fall asleep all over her yard. She is finally able to awaken and serve them a proper dinner when she finds out that some dinosaurs are VEGETARIANS. (INTERMEDIATE) (5 Readers )
Script Length: 8 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-22 THE QUEEN'S STAIRWAY
"No, no, with due respect. I won't do it. It can't be done," says the Lady-in-Waiting when she is ordered to pluck a star from the sky for her queen's jewelry collection. "Anything's possible, if you put your head to it," replies the queen. The Lady-in-Waiting, Page, Palace Chef, and Jester do put their heads to the task and end up building a stairway to the stars out of - the queen's jewelry boxes. The queen decides to pluck her own star and finds the stairway is just a little too short. Soon jewelry covers the kingdom. They're still looking for the queen. (INTERMEDIATE) (6 Readers)
Script Length: 8 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-23 THE MAGICIAN'S MUFFINS
A perfect tale for intermediate readers to rehearse and then perform for primary children. Two magical roly poly peanut butter and jelly muffins outrun and outsmart a cow, a duck, a sheep, a pig, and a mighty magician. A clever boy who acts first and talks later eats the muffins and breaks their magic spells so that everyone can finally go home. A classic predictable story. Lots of repetition, animal sounds, and rhyming words to keep young listeners involved to the very last bite. (INTERMEDIATE) (8 Readers )
Script Length: 9 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-24 THE GOBLINS OF HOKKAIDO
Here's a well-known Japanese folktale for intermediate readers. A blue goblin and a red goblin live in the northern mountains of Japan on the island of Hokkaido. Both are the proud possessors of magic noses. When properly wiggled, these noses can be made to grow so long that they pass through the Japanese islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu! The goblins get into trouble with a prince and a princess who finally teach them to keep their noses out of other people's business. (INTERMEDIATE) (5 Readers )
Script Length: 8 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-25 THE GREAT RACE
Set in Canada. "Once, when animals ran the government, a female groundhog from British Columbia won an election in her riding and became an Honorable Member of Parliament." The groundhog moves her look-alike family to Ottawa, Ontario, and one day, finds herself in a footrace with an unpleasant rabbit MP from the back benches. To win the race, the groundhog comes up with a plan which is worthy of the "most organized and inventive public servant." She wins, and the event goes down in Ottawa history as "The Great Race!" (INTERMEDIATE) (8 Readers)
Script Length: 13 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-26 THE GREAT APPLE SLICE ESCAPE
A sweet little old grandmother decides to make an apple pie and prepares the filling from five of our most well-known varieties: a Northern Spy, a Spartan, a McIntosh, a Red Delicious, and an Idared. Once inside the crusts, the apple slices hatch a daring escape plan. The use of repetitive phrases and an ever building internal poem make this an especially good script to rehearse and then perform for younger listeners. (INTERMEDIATE) (8 Readers)
Script Length: 10 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-27 THE TEDDY BEAR'S PICNIC
Freddy Teddy Bear checks his calendar to find that it is once again time for the Teddy Bears' Picnic. He plans the menu, then calls Betty Teddy Bear to tell her what to bring to the picnic. Freddy says, "You bring the hot dogs and the buns. I'll bring the mustard, tons and tons!" Betty passes the word along to Teddy Teddy, Letty Teddy, and Neddy Teddy, but because she recites Freddy Teddy's little poem each time, everyone ends up bringing hot dogs and buns to the picnic. Thank goodness Neddy Teddy also brings a surprise which makes the Teddy Bears' Picnic complete. (INTERMEDIATE) (6 Readers)
Script Length: 11 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-29 ARDITH MAGEE AND THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SPREE
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-30 OWL'S PERFECT VALENTINE
Same basic plot as the popular primary version of this story, but more sophisticated. Four readers relate the tale of Oliver the owl who wastes his time searching for the "perfect valentine". Reader #4 reads Oliver's lines and gets in trouble with other cast members by practising "Whoooooo!" in all the wrong places! As the story progresses, simple shapes are drawn on blackboard or display pad. Finally, Reader #4 "sees the light" and gives Oliver the credit he deserves. Readers #1, #2, and #3 have to agree. The makings of a perfect valentine have been in front of them all along. (INTERMEDIATE ) (4 Readers)
Script Length: 9 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-31 A HOLIDAY FOR PADDY O'SHAY
It is the "tip top of a St. Patrick's Day morning" when a shoe mending leprechaun named Paddy O'Shay decides to take the day off! Paddy grabs his "sprig of shillelagh" and strolls off to find a green sewing needle threaded with shamrock green thread. The needle tells him to find "The Leprechaun Who Mends Shamrocks". An old leprechaun, dressed all in orange, invites Paddy to help play a jig on the fiddle, reed pipe, and harp, but Paddy follows the needle's advice and finally meets an ancient leprechaun who turns shamrocks into four leaf clovers - for the "luck o' the Irish!" Many St. Patrick's Day vocabulary words and phrases find meaning in this exciting script. (INTERMEDIATE ) (7 Readers)
Script Length: 9 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-63 THREE LITTLE PIGS
If you liked our re-telling in rhyme of Goldie and the Three Bears, ("Go Home Goldie") you'll LOVE this new approach to the old three pig/wolf story. Talk about the THREE R's: rhythm, repetition, and rhyme! Same basic plot, of course, but lots of added fun with a hand-clapping, toe-tapping approach to the telling. Lois has formatted this as a Reader's Theater script for intermediate readers: If you truly like the three R's, this one's for you!
Readers: 8. Length: 4 pages. Reading time: 3-4 minutes.
Script Length: 4 pages of reading text. View sample pages HERE.
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I-64 THE CITY MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE
Pheobe, the country mouse receives an invitation to visit her cousin, Valerie, in the city. Pheobe tells her friend, Mrs. Chipmunk, she can't wait to go! She's tired of country life and craves some excitement. She arrives in the city and admires Valerie's beautiful home. Everything goes well until THE CAT enters the picture. To escape him, the two cousins go shopping and poor Pheobe gets lost in the maze of city streets and constant traffic. When she finally find her way back to Valerie's she has learned a valuable lesson. It's the same one Dorothy learned in The Wizard of Oz: There's no place like home!
READERS NEEDED:
READER 1: Phoebe
READER 2: Mrs. Chipmunk/The Cat
READER 3: Valerie
NUMBER OF SCRIPT PAGES: 7 ½ including director/teacher's notes and suggested blocking.
View sample pages HERE.
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I-65 THE SHOEMAKER AND THE ELVES
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-66 THE FIFTH WITCH
This Readers Theater script has been written as a Halloween play, but may also be performed on any other occasion by simply leaving out the references to Halloween. A king has tired of his devoted Court Wizard, Merlin, and decides he wants a Court Witch instead. Merlin plans to teach the king a lesson about loyalty and, before leaving, hires the replacement himself. He teaches the king a "magic chant" to summon the witch whenever he wants. The king, however, doesn't like the first witch who appears, and demands another. In the end, five witches (each a little larger and louder than the one before) come and go, but not before one of them turns the king into a monkey! Merlin, of course, saves the day.
READERS NEEDED:
READER 1/King/Monkey
READER 2/Wizard
READER 3/Witch 1,3,5
READER 4/Witch 2,4
NUMBER OF SCRIPT PAGES: 10 including director/teacher's notes and suggested Readers Theater blocking.
View sample pages HERE.
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I-67 THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
A traditional scripting of the age-old tale of a fisherman, his unhappy wife, and a magical fish that grants three wishes. A simple cottage and a castle (or painted backdrops of them) are needed to set the scenes. As each wish is granted, the fisherman's wife is not satisfied and wants more! Finally the exasperated fish takes away everything he has given and the wife learns "it is not good to spend your life wanting more than you need". Not a bad lesson for these troubled times!
READERS NEEDED:
READER 1: NARRATOR
READER 2: NARRATOR
READER 3: NARRATOR
READER 4: NARRATOR
READER 5: FISHERMAN
READER 6: WIFE/QUEEN
READER 7: FISH
NUMBER OF SCRIPT PAGES: 12 including director/teacher's notes and suggested blocking.
View sample pages HERE.
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I-68 HANSEL AND GRETEL
A masterful re-telling of this well-known tale. This script is formatted for Readers Theater and may be read-aloud like any other RT script in our catalog. However, instead of simply reading the script aloud, your students might want to rehearse this one to perfection, memorize the lines, and perform the piece for parents or other classes. The script is worthy of a full-fledged production involving sets and props, sound effects, music, and special lighting. This is also a script which teen or adult readers will find worthy of performance.
READERS NEEDED:
READER 1: Gretel
READER 2: Hansel
READER 3: Mother
READER 4: Father
READER 5: Witch
READER 6: Snowball the Cat
NUMBER OF SCRIPT PAGES: 16 ½ including director/teacher's notes and suggested blocking.
View sample pages HERE.
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I-69 THE MAGIC CARROT CAPER
You've heard of the Gigantic Turnip? Well this time around it's a carrot that won't be uprooted. In this version of the popular folk tale, a walrus, hippopotamus, elephant, dinosaur, and tiny mouse, help a little old man and lady unearth the pesky vegetable. As each animal is magically added to the carrot tugging team, the descriptive words grow: large, huge, enormous, humungous, and gigantic! A playwright, set designer, costume designer, and director open this story and re-join the cast at the end to celebrate victory with carrot stew. This is a Readers Theater version of the story and is formatted for 14 intermediate readers.
NOTE: If you wish to involve more students or the entire class, a chorus may be added to chant along with the "ALL" chorus lines. Length: 7 pages. Readers: 14. Reading time: 4-5 minutes.
View sample pages HERE.
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I-71 THIS SAGUARO IS FINE
If you live in a desert area or are studying desert plants and animals, this Readers Theater script will become a popular addition to your collection. The Saguaro Cactus, the state flower of Arizona, is composed of a tall, thick, fluted, columnar stem, 18 to 24 inches in diameter, often with several large arm-like branches curving upward. The largest plants, with more than 5 arms, are estimated to be 200 years old. During its lifetime, the Saguaro serves as a home to a number of dessert animals and is sometimes referred to as a "critter hotel".
This script tells the Saguaro story using rhythm, rhyme, and a repetitive chorus. There are 10 intermediate reading parts: 8 solo readers and 2 duet readers. All voices read in unison on CHORUS and other selected phrases.
Length: 4 pages. Reading time: 3-4 minutes.
View sample pages HERE.
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I-72 THE CRAZY DESERT CRITTERS, Africa
African Desert Animals Featured In This Script:
Meerkat, Warthog, Camel, Fennec Fox, Sand Cat.
This story-in-rhyme includes a silly old man and a pizza eating boy who know a lot about meerkats, warthogs, camels, fennic foxes, and sand cats. As the old man describes each animal, the boy reacts as follows: surprised, amazed, dumbfounded, bewildered, and astonished! The whole experience turns out to be a bad dream, and the boy promises never again to eat pizza before he goes to sleep! 6 readers, 8 pages in length.
View sample pages HERE.
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I-73 THE CRAZY DESERT CRITTERS, North America
North American Desert Animals Featured In This Script: Side-Blotched Lizard, Round-Tailed Squirrel, Tortoise/Reptile, Kit Fox, Bobcat.
Same basic plot as I-72. This version involved North American desert animals only. This story-in-rhyme includes a silly old man and a pizza eating boy who know a lot about side-blotched lizards, round-tailed squirrels, tortoise/reptiles, kit foxes, and bobcats. As the old man describes each animal, the boy reacts as follows: surprised, amazed, dumbfounded, bewildered, and astonished. The whole experience turns out to be a bad dream, and the boy promises never again to eat pizza before he goes to sleep! 6 readers, 6 pages in length.
View sample pages HERE.
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I-74 IF I LIVED IN AFRICA
If I lived in Africa, would I be a wild dog, a warthog, a meerkat, a cheetah, a camel, an antelope? Nope. The second I chose one, I think of another intriguing animal, and then I change my mind. In this rhyming story, the storyteller's indecision finally leads to the inevitable:
There are oh so many animals,
But I think you'll agree
That if I lived in Africa,
I'd just be me!
10 readers, 6 pages in length. For this script, teacher information and student text are combined in this one version.
(If you wish to involve the entire class, a choral speaking version of this script is also available. Please look in the choral speaking section of our online catalog)
View sample pages HERE.
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I-75 THE PACKRAT'S HOME
Value-added package: CH-16/I-75 (One title, but you receive both an RT and a Choral Reading script version when you order).
Dropped a dime in the desert, popped a button in the sand. Lost a marble near a cactus, and I'm sure you understand - these things are gone forever. They're not just out on loan. Now piled with chunks of cholla, ARE A PACKRAT'S HOME! This rhyming story continues on to describe how the tiny packrat builds his desert home from "found objects." Should readers be concerned about their bikes, their computers, their family cars? Will they too, mixed with cholla, be a packrat's home? 14 readers, 3 pages in length. For this title, teacher information and student text are combined in this one version.
(If you wish to involve the entire class, a choral speaking version of this script is also available. Please look in the choral speaking section of our online catalog).
View sample pages HERE.
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I-76 A TORTOISE, OF COURSE
What's that moving on the land, almost invisible in the sand, close to the ground, patiently plodding, treading slowly, tenderly bobbing, bald head weaving, bouncing, nodding? See? What can it be?
It's a tortoise.
Tortoise, of course.
Of course a tortoise,
It isn't a horse.
And right on course,
A desert force,
Is the tortoise
Of course!
This story takes a poetic look at a desert tortoise slowly moving across the sand of a North American desert. 6 readers, 4 pages in length.
(If you wish to involve the entire class, a choral speaking version of this script is also available. Please look in the choral speaking section of our online catalog).
View sample pages HERE.
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I-77 I'M AN ANT!
Teaching a unit on insects? Here's a story poem about what it's like to be an ant! Eight readers tell us how busy a worker ant's life can be and, in doing so, impart a few important "ant facts" along the way. There's always something fascinating to learn about the tiny ant, including the names of ant body parts like petiole, thorax and gaster! Did you know an ant is able to carry five times his/her weight? An upbeat rhythm and some strategically placed hand-clapping combine to make this poem a delight to perform. Here's a sample of the ending:
I'm an ant (clap, clap)
What can I say? (clap, clap)
I'm not distressed,
I'm not depressed
In any way.
Don't fret about my self-esteem.
Don't analyze my every dream.
I'm fine. I'm really A.O.K!
I'm an ant!
Readers: 7 with an optional 8th performer who creates sound effects.
5 ½ pages in length.
View sample pages HERE.
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I-78 MANNERS! MANNERS!
Members of the "GMM" are marching around the school, chanting, and waving signs that say: GOOD MANNERS MOVEMENT! STAMP OUT ANNOYING ANNOYANCES! ARE YOU PART OF THE SOLUTION – OR PART OF THE PROBLEM? GOOD MANNERS COUNT!
In this script everyone (teachers included) gets a chance to comment on which annoying behaviors bug them the most. The script is written in both poetry and prose, features 6 major readers, and includes additional reader parts for as many other readers as you’d like to include. This is the intermediate version, but both intermediate and primary versions of this script are available.
So come on, join the movement! Then you too can take part in the "GMM" Chorus chant:
“Gooooooooood...
Manners, manners!
Manners, manners!
Wave your signs,
Fly high the banners.
Help support
GOOD MAAAN - NERS!”
6 major readers and additional parts for as many readers as you’d like. 9½ pages in length.
For more information, please click HERE.
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I-79 MRS. SUMMER-FALL-WINTER-SPRINGTIME
An original poem about the seasons featuring rhythm and rhyme for intermediate readers. Six readers tell the tale of of an old woman who "likes to write a little poem for every single season". Additional readers may be included in the ALL chorus. 6 readers and an ALL chorus. 5 pages in length.
Both a RT Version and a CHORAL Version are available.
For more information, please click HERE.
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I-80 THE LOST PETS
(Value-Added: 3 Scripts for the Price of One). Three versions of a short script for lower intermediate and upper primary readers:
1. Readers Theater Script for Non-Readers and Beginning Readers. 1 Narrator (teacher or older reader) and Repetitive (ALL) Lines for the Entire Class. (6 pages in length).
2. Readers Theater Script for Primary Readers Who Can Read Simple Phrases and Sentences. 1 Narrator (teacher or older reader), 10 Easy-Reader Solo Parts, All Girl and All Boy Parts, and Repetitive (ALL) Lines Throughout. 5 pages in length.
3. Choral Speaking Script for Upper Primary or Lower Intermediate Voice Choirs 5 pages in length.
For more information, please click HERE.
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I-81/CH-24 THE MAN WHO FLEW INTO SPACE
A Value Added Package: $14.95: When you order this title, you receive both a Readers Theater Version and a Choral Speaking Version. Both are for Upper Primary or Lower Intermediate Readers and Voice Choirs. 6 Readers, including an ALL chorus. 7 pages in length.
This script features rhythm and rhyming words and is loosely based on an old jump rope rhyme about a man who flies into space. Whenever the man flies off, he comes back with “something on his face” and the text explains exactly what has happened to him while out there on his journey.
For more information, please click HERE.
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I-82/CH-25 SLOW DOWN, CHRISTMAS!
$14.95
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! (Intermediate and up).
Script Length: 10 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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I-83/CH-26 THE STORY OF THE NINES TIMES TABLE
This script features rhythm and rhyming words. Looking back, I always had trouble with the Nine Times Table. And so, in memory of those agonizing school days, I have written a script about that very table. If this script can help any young person master those pesky NINES, I'll be delighted!
A Value Added Package: $14.95. 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.
Choral Reading parts for ALL, ALL GIRLS, ALL BOYS, and 5 SOLO VOICES. 5 pages in length. RT Readers parts for 5 Readers. 6 1/2 pages in length.
For more information, please click HERE.
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I-84/CH-27 THE THANKSGIVING ESCAPE
P-35 TURKEY IN THE BARNYARD
Turkey and Piggy live side by side in the barnyard. They love to sing together and especially like singing “The Gobble-Oink Song” (sung to the tune of “Stayin’ Alive). Piggy doesn’t quite understand the importance of the approaching Thanksgiving Day, but Turkey gets the message and announces it is his opinion that “folks should eat more ham!” Then he finds a hole in the fence and conveniently disappears. Piggy decides she doesn’t want to end up as “a soup ham bone” and also makes her escape. So, what’s left to serve on the Thanksgiving plate? To find out, you’ll have to read this script right to the very end!
A Value Added Package: When you order this title, you receive both a Readers Theater Version (7 pages in length) and a Choral Speaking Version (7 pages in length). Both are for Upper Primary/Lower Intermediate Readers and Voice Choirs.
In addition, you receive a Finger Play script, P-35 Turkey in the Barnyard for Lower Primary students. 3 pages in length.
For more information, please click HERE.
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I-85 THAT'S WHAT BULLIES DO!
This script was conceived and written as a way to involve student readers in a campaign to stamp out bullying. The "pledge" referred to in the script is an Anti-bullying Pledge that concerned students are asked to sign. A copy of the pledge can be found at the end of this script and can also be found online at: http://drphil.com/shows/show/115/.
Script Length: 5 pages of reading text. For more information and sample pages, please click HERE.
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I-86/CH-29/P-37 RUN TURKEY RUN!
$14.95
3 Scripts in One Value Added Package!
Five fat turkeys stand in a line and survey their kingdom. They proudly fluff their feathers, prance, twist, and turn. They know Thanksgiving is coming, but they’re not worried. They have plans to run away long before the hungry farmer comes to look for them. And, of course, they do. When the barnyard gate is left open, the five fat turkeys do just as they had been planning all along, they run!
For more information, please click HERE.
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I-87/CH-30 RING THOSE CHRISTMAS BELLS!
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! (Intermediate and up).
Script Length: 10 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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I-92 THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF
A Shared-Reading Script based on The Boy Who Cried Wolf. The script is formatted to include a variety of reading levels and ages (kindergarten and up).
Script Length: 8 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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I-93 SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE: THE UNTOLD STORY
Here's another new script formatted to include a variety of reading levels and ages (kindergarten and up). Too old for nursery rhymes? Maybe not!
Script Length: 7 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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I-94/CH-37 POP UNTIL WE DROP: A POPCORN STORY
A Value Added Package: $14.95. When you order this title, you receive both a Readers Theater Version and a Choral Speaking Version. Both are for Intermediate/Advanced Readers and Voice Choirs.
This story poem explores the life of a popcorn seed from soil to cooking pot and imparts a few important "popcorn facts" along the way. There's always something fascinating to learn about plants, especially this popular confection!
Script Length: 9 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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IF YOU ARE TEACHING A DESERT THEME (animals and plants from both North American and African desert regions), you'll find more Intermediate selections by clicking HERE.
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I-102 PEG LEG JOE AND THE DRINKING GOURD
For Intermediate Readers. In this story-poem RT script, 12 SOLO READERS and an ALL CHORUS tell about Joe, the song, and the code within the song, that helped slaves in the 1800's find freedom in the north (This script may be easily adapted to include frewer or more solo readers, as required). The script needs to be read with attention to rhythm and rhyme, including lively hand-clapping to help keep the beat.
Script Length: 7 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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I-104 YOU CAN'T TRUST A LEPRECHAUN! (Readers Theater, Intermediate Readers)
Everybody knows you can't trust those trickly little Irish fellows dressed in green. Well, the poor grumpy troll in this story is having a terrible time trying to figure it out. He's determined to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Only problem is, he's taking his traveling directions from the very leprechaun who owns the pot. The troll travels back and forth between the rainbow's beginning and end, right side and left side, front side and back side. Each time he finally reaches a destination, he finds no gold, but he does find the leprechaun who is always ready to give him a new set of traveling directions! Will this story never end? Possibly not. The readers of this piece think the troll is out there this very minute, still stomping around trying to find that elusive pot of gold.
The script is formatted for 7 readers (6 SOLO READERS and 1 LEPRECHAUN) but can easly adjusted for 12, 18, or 24 SOLO READERS, depending on how many readers you have available.
Script Length: 11 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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I-106 FROGS MATTER!
Script Length: 10 pages of reading text. For more information, please click HERE.
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I-109/CH-61 THE GAME
A Value Added Package: $14.95. When you order this title, you receive both a Readers Theater Version and a Choral Speaking/Reading Version. Both are for Intermediate/Advanced Readers and Voice Choirs.
This script catches the essence of a high school basketball game in progress. Many of the sights, sounds, and excitement, as experienced by the crowd, are written into the script.
If you are a Choral Speaking/Reading director, you'll especially enjoy the many "onomatopoeia words" used in the rhyming text. This script is written with words that, when spoken aloud, sound like what they mean.
Onomatopoeia is defined as:
(1) The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss).
(2 )The use of words whose sound suggests the sense
Script length: 6 pages of reading text. For more informaiton, please click HERE.
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