Featuring more than 25 reproducible scripts, it also offers numerous practical guide-lines for using readers theatre in the classroom, this book is a perfect resource for your reading program.
Tony Fredericks presents a collection of best loved stories in the popular readers theatre format to integrate with the United States history and language arts curriculum in the upper elementary and middle school grades. This collection of over 20 well-known and not-so-well-known tales will be invaluable to teachers in American schools as they do their usual units of study in American history and literature. Plays focus on entertaining folklore, tall tales, and legends to aid teachers in building fluency skills in their young readers. Included are tips for introducing and using Readers Theatre with students in grades 4-8.
Unlike most readers theatre titles, the 36 scripts in this book introduce young readers to classic authors like Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain while they have fun and improve their reading fluency.
Provides instructions and guidance on putting on a children's play about a group of kids who decide their class pet, Gus the guinea pig, can forecast the weather just as well as any groundhog.