Welcome to Our Reader’s Theater Scripts Homeschool Curriculum

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.

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