Activity
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: Little Red Riding Hood

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 Principal's New Clothes

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...
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: One Handed Catch

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...
Activity
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: 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...
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.
Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: The Poem "Simile" [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A reader's theater script for "Simile", a poem, is provided on this script. Eleven character roles are needed in this performance.
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.
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Frog or Toad? [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of Patricia Lynch's early childhood book, Frog or Toad?, is provided on this script. Three character roles, along with a chorus of all other students, are needed in this performance.
Unit Plan
University of Texas at Austin

College of Liberal Arts, Ut: Shakespeare Kids: Titania

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...
Unit Plan
University of Texas at Austin

College of Liberal Arts, Ut: Shakespeare Kids: Puck

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...
Unit Plan
University of Texas at Austin

College of Liberal Arts, Ut: Shakespeare Kids: Fairie

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...
Unit Plan
University of Texas at Austin

College of Liberal Arts, Ut: Shakespeare Kids: Hermia

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...
Professional Doc
University of Texas at Austin

Shakespeare Kids: Winedale Outreach: Teacher Introduction and Orientation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section is an introduction and...
Unit Plan
Other

Promoting Alabama Youth Development: Module 7: Making Better Choices [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Activities to help teens understand how to make good choices. Includes an activity feedback form for students to fill out, a poster, sample situations teens may face, and several short scripts for role-playing.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Process of Acting

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about acting and how one actor prepares for her roles. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Slavery: A Crisis in the Making [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
This lesson plan looks at the issue of slavery and the role it played in the American Revolution and the founding of the new Republic. Includes background information for the teacher. Students participate in performing a reader's theater...