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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Three Little Javelinas

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Gollywhopper Game

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Stone Cutter

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Snowflake Bentley

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Rumpelstiltskin

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Nory Ryan's Song

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Marvelous Mattie

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Listen Buddy

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Sleeping Beauty

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Shoveling Snow

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Worry Warts

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: White Wolf

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
eBook
Aaron Shepherd

Aaron Shepherd: The Baker's Dozen (St. Nicholas Tale)

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site listen to a portion of a tale of St Nicholas retold and read by author Aaron Shepherd. Information provided for Reader's Theater as well as extras provided by the author such as play script and posters.
Website
PBS

Pbs Kids: Zoom Playhouse

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This PBS kids site features dozens of short plays that have been performed on the children's television series "Zoom." Includes short scripts for skits which students can perform together, and lists of props to include in the performance.
eBook
Aaron Shepherd

Aaron Shepherd: The Legend of Lightning Larry

For Students 2nd - 8th
At this site listen to a tale retold and read by author Aaron Shepherd. Information provided for Reader's Theater as well as extras provided by the author such as writing ideas and posters.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Burp Champion [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Originally published in a 2009 issue of The Reading Teacher, this reader's theater script was written by two of Dr. Chase Young's second grade students. Two character roles are needed in this activity about a burping contest.
Lesson Plan
Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Old Fashioned Radio Program

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students create and record a class radio play with sound effects and then listen to it.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Movie vs. Book

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students compare the video version of the teleplay "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" to the actual teleplay. (A teleplay is a play or script written for television.) The links to media in this lesson no longer work,...