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Reader’s Theater
Length: 76 scripts
Content type: Text based
Grades: 3-6
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Welcome to Our Reader’s Theater Scripts Homeschool Curriculum
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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.
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
Course Sample for Our Reader’s Theater Scripts Homeschool Course
How Doth the Little Busy Bee
By Isaac Watts
Characters: READER 1 and READER 2
READER 1: How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
READER 2: And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
READER 1: How skillfully she builds her cell!
How neat she spreads the wax!
READER 2: And labors hard to store it well
With the sweet food she makes.
READER 1: In works of labor or of skill,
I would be busy too;
READER 2: For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
READER 1: In books, or work, or healthful play,
Let my first years be passed,
UNISON: That I may give for every day
Some good account at last.
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.
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Quick Start
1. Bookmark the course for easy access during instruction.
2. Click “View Lesson Plan” as available and organize as desired (on computer desktop or in a printed format). Lesson Plans for all courses coming soon.
3. Gather necessary resources, found on page 2 of 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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Lesson Designer
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