Reader’s Theatre Scripts & Plays Online

NOTE: I looked through the sites below to see how useful they might be...some text is not that easy to read, but you can copy and paste text into a word document and set the fonts for student readability. Also, some links within the various sites are no longer available....enjoy!

- This is a great starting place for lots of information and resources on Plays and other Literacy issues. It is very comprehensive... Many of the plays below were recommended in this site: http://literacyconnections.com/ReadersTheater.php

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- links to 53 plays for elementary grades http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm - Teacher’s comments: “I’ve used some of these scripts with my struggling readers. Students love "Dinosaur Land" in which the herbivore and the carnivore argue over who is the best. The numerous Readers Theater writers with works on this page include Aaron Shepard, Rick Swallow, and Stephen Kohner.”

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Readers Theatre using an Indonesian folktale http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/catalog/readers.htm

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Amazing Scripts for You to Download & Use

The Bouncing Egg	Under Pressure	Mining Sylvester
In the Air Stream	If the Egg Fits	Dinner Tricks
Diorama Extinction	The Science Fair	Frozen Friction
The Floating Tea Bag	A Little CO2	Balloon Adventure

Student-created Science Scripts – check out the rest of the page at: http://gvc03c32.virtualclassroom.org/

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Lois Walker's The Crazy Critters - Free classroom script that you may copy and distribute in your classroom source

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The Grasshopper and the Ants - This free script is designed for younger students and contains a great deal of choral reading source

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ZOOMplayhouse - Short plays that might be used to get young children comfortable with Readers Theatre - site at: http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/playhouse/

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Readers Theatre K-3 http://www.readerstheatre.ecsd.net/collection.htm

Ready for classroom use! Over 150 small poems, stories and chants that are divided into reading parts for children from grades K-3.  This resource site is part of a omprehensive Early Literacy Site (www.earlyliterature.ecsd.net).

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"Readers Theatre Scripts of the Month" http://www.lisablau.com/scriptomonth.html Monthly scripts will be available on the first of every month. Download these scripts by choosing Word format (If you have Microsoft Word) or in plain text format. Access to all archived versions is available, as well.

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Scripts Brought to the Internet by Suzy Red
Flying Solo
Mister and Me
Nory Ryan’s Son
Traditional Rumpelstiltskin