Welcome to Our Reader’s Theater Scripts Homeschool Curriculum

Did you know that using Reader’s Theater scripts regularly can improve reading fluency, auditory comprehension, articulation, social language skills, and vocal/physical expression? Choose from more than seventy short elementary-level scripts for various reading levels and group sizes!

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Reader’s Theater

Length: 76 scripts
Content type: Text based
Grades: 3–6

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Getting Started with Our Reader’s Theater Scripts Homeschool Course

This homeschool drama and speech course is a compilation of short reader’s theater scripts designed to be read by two or more students. Memorization is not required because the focus on this form of drama is on reading the work with expression rather than reciting it. The reader’s theater scripts are easily adapted to single-child households by having a parent read opposite the homeschool student or by having the student read the play in two different “voices.” Be sure to download the Reader’s Theater Introduction, Tips, and How-Tos file. The link is located under the More About This Course tab.

Overview

  • 26 weeks
  • Includes printable scripts and teaching tips
  • Grades: 3–6

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; access to the Internet, computer, and printer; a phone video camera, props, or costumes (optional)

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and lessons file. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

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Course Sample for Our Reader’s Theater Scripts Homeschool Course

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Reader’s Theater

By Susan Brown

What Is Reader’s Theater?

Reader’s Theater is the oral presentation of a written work that is performed with two or more readers. Memorization is not required because the focus of this form of drama is on reading the work with expression rather than reciting it. The readers help the audience to understand and visualize the text through their vocal performance.

Benefits of Using Reader’s Theater

  • It gives purpose to reading.
  • It helps children develop reading fluency through repetition.
  • It increases comprehension since the text must be interpreted for performance.
  • It motivates children to read.
  • It improves not only reading skills, but listening and speaking skills as well.
  • It encourages children to work together.
  • Performing Reader’s Theater helps increase self-confidence.

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Course Outline for Our Reader’s Theater Scripts Homeschool Course

Seventy-six reader’s theater scripts provide practice in reading fluently and expressively for individual homeschool students or small groups. Scripts may be selected by title or completed as outlined in the weekly assignment on the Class Lessons page.

  • Week 1: Introduction/A Child’s Thought of God/How Doth the Little Busy Bee/White Butterflies
  • Week 2: How the Little Kite Learned to Fly/What Christ Said/Who Has Seen the Wind
  • Week 3: Another Midnight Hymn/I Write About the Butterfly/Little Things
  • Week 4: Deeds of Kindness/Lo the Lilies of the Field/Playgrounds
  • Week 5: Easter Day/The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse/ The Son of God Goes Forth to War
  • Week 6: How the Leaves Came Down/Mr. Nobody/The Shadows
  • Week 7: Evening Hymn/Robinson Crusoe’s Hymn/The Canary
  • Week 8: Autumn/The Teapot Dragon/Try Again
  • Week 9: A Christmas Carol/A Little Lamb Went Straying/Oxfordshire Children’s May Song
  • Week 10: Learned Fred/The Fountain/The Picture-Book Giant
  • Week 11: Shepherd Boys Song’s/The Snail/The Table and the Chair
  • Week 12: On the Road/The Dream of a Girl Who Lived at Seven-Oaks/What If
  • Week 13: My Kingdom/Our Puppies/The Lord’s Day
  • Week 14: An Apple Orchard in the Spring/Our Tree Toad/Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me
  • Week 15: Did You Ever/Guess What I Have Heard/The Ancient of Days
  • Week 16: Going Downhill on a Bicycle/In July/We Never Part from Thee
  • Week 17: Fairies/Hope in God/Zip!
  • Week 18: Spring/The Pelican Chorus/Twenty Froggies
  • Week 19: Popcorn/Praise to God/Winter Night
  • Week 20: Foolish Flowers/P’s and Q’s/Thanks for a Pleasant Day
  • Week 21: The Bird’s Bath/The Lion and the Mouse/The Tiger
  • Week 22: God is Good/In the Water World/The Chorus of Frogs
  • Week 23: The Grass/The Lamb/The Red Bird
  • Week 24: Calico Pie/It was My Heavenly Father’s Love/The Reformation of Godfrey Gore
  • Week 25: The Akond of Swat
  • Week 26: The Jovial Welshmen/There’s a Friend for Little Children

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More About Our Reader’s Theater Scripts Homeschool Course

Reader’s theater scripts provide practice in the oral presentation of a written work that is performed with two or more readers. Memorization is not required because the focus of this form of drama is on reading the work with expression rather than reciting it. The readers help the audience to understand and visualize the text through their vocal performance.

There are many benefits of using reader’s theater scripts, whether with individual homeschool students or in small groups: giving purpose to reading; helping children develop reading fluency through repetition; increasing comprehension, since the text must be interpreted for performance; motivating children to read; improving not only reading skills, but listening and speaking skills as well; encouraging children to work together; and helping increase self-confidence.

Download – Reader’s Theater Introduction, Tips, and How-Tos

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Quick Start

1.  Bookmark the course for easy access during instruction.

2. Click “View Lesson Plan” and organize as desired (on computer desktop or in a printed format). 

3.  Gather necessary resources as listed in the lesson plan.

4.  Click “Go to Class Lessons” and get started.

5.  Enjoy the course!

6.  Utilize Applecore or your own record keeping system throughout the course.

7.  Print a certificate of completion.

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