Literature-Based Reader's Theater Scripts from Edupress
These are the only reader's theater products as of May, 2008,
based on actual children's books. You don't have to reproduce them for students,
since they are ready to use as individual scripts, each one highlighted for one
of the the parts. The scripts feature parts for readers of all abilities and
also support challenged and English language learners. The books the scripts are
based on are not included in the package.
Each set of scripts is based on a best-selling children's book
chosen by a library media specialist for their interest and reading level. Books
include new favorites and old classics. Each package consists of one highlighted
script for each character and comes shrink-wrapped. Also included is a
teacher's activity guide. The scripts are based on the titles below:
Items on this page qualify for TITLE 1
For Grades 2-3
Book Fair Day (5 scripts): Dewey Booker loves reading, and can
hardly wait for his class's turn on the day of the book fair. It's last in line!
Dewey tries every way he knows to get in early before the best books are gone,
but his teacher always catches him. Will there be any good books left for him?
BTH-4556. $9.89-D
Good Night, Good Knight
(6-scripts).The Good Knight is on his watch when he thinks he hears a
great big dragon. He searches the woods and finds a surprise. Three very little
dragons are almost ready for bed. But who will read to them, tuck them in, and
kiss them good night? Is this a job for the Good Knight?
BTH-5208. $9.89-D
Henry and Mudge Take the Big Test
(6-scripts).Henry's big dog, Mudge, needs to go to obedience school. Will
Mudge be able to pass the final test?
BTH-5209.
$9.89-D
Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies (6 scripts)
The pirates in this book are all rabbits who sail in the Golden Carrot. All
except Henry, the captain's son, were very bad bunnies. But Henry, instead of
performing his proper pirate duties, preferred to sit around and read books.
Though the other pirates tease Henry and think he is lazy and reading useless,
it is Henry's reading that saves the day after a destructive storm causes a ship
wreck. BTH-5206. $9.89-D
Hooway for Wodney Wat (5 scripts)
Poor Rodney Rat can't pronounce his R's and the other rodents
tease him mercilessly. But it's Rodney who ends up saving the class from a big
bully.
BTH-52106.
$9.89-D
Ivy and Bean (6 scripts): This play covers the first two and a half
chapters of the book it's based on about two girls who were sure that they could
never be friends. BTH-4557. $9.89-D
How I Became a Pirate (5 scripts): Jeremy Jacob is invited to join a
band of pirates on a voyage, and he jumps right on board, thinking of all the
adventures he will have -- burying treasure, singing sea chanteys, and more. But
the pirate's life isn't quite the way he imagined it. BTH-4558. $9.89-D
Make Way for Ducklings (5 scripts): Mr. and Mrs. Mallard are
searching for just the right place to settle down with their eight ducklings.
They finally decide on the island in the middle of the swan boat pond in the
Boston Public Garden. The problem is navigating the busy Boston streets to get
there. Fortunately, a friendly policeman comes to their rescue. BTH-4559.
$9.89-D
Miss Rumphius (4 scripts) Great-Aunt Alice Rumphius, when she
was but a girl, told her artist grandfather that when she grew up she would go
to faraway places as he had, and that she, too, would live by the sea, as he
did, when she became old. But he tells her there is a third thing she must do --
make the world more beautiful. It became one of her goals, but she wasn't sure
how she would do it. But when she got old and settled down in that house by the
sea, she got her idea, with a bit of help from the wind. She would plant lupines
everywhere she could. As Johnny Appleseed sowed apple seeds, she sowed the seeds
of lupine flowers, and in her town she become known as the Lupine Lady.
BTH-5207. $9.89-D
Skippyjon Jones (6 scripts): Skippyjon Jones is an extraordinary
kitten AKA El Skippito, a great sword-fighter ready to battle banditos
world-wide. In this script he dons a mask and cape and take on a bad bumblebeeto.
BTH-4560. $9.89-D
For Grades 4-5
Al Capone Does My Shirts (6 scripts): Moose and his sister Natalie
(who is autistic) live on the island of Alcatraz with other families who are
prison employees. It's a tough adjustment for Moose, who finds it hard to fit in
because he is largely responsible for taking care of Natalie after school when
he'd rather be playing baseball with the other boys.
BTH-5213.
$9.89-D
Chicken
Sunday (5 scripts): Patricia and her
neighbor friends Winston and Stewart, are hoping to get the boy's gramma, Miss
Eula, a beautiful Easter bonnet they have seen in Mr. Kodinski's store window.
They counted the money they had saved and headed toward Mr. Kodinski's store,
but just before they arrived, some bigger boys were pelting the back door of the
shop with eggs and yelling. They ran away just before Patricia and her friends
arrived, and they got blamed for it. They knew they'd have a tough time getting
the hat for Miss Eula now. But Patricia's mother helps the children solve their
problem and win Mr. Kodinski over with some very special Easter eggs.
BTH-5211. $9.89-D
The Firekeeper's Son (four scripts): Set in a remote village in 19th
century Korea, the story centers on a fire signal system that sends a message
from mountain to mountain until it reaches the mountain closest to the palace to
assure the king that all is well in the land. Every night, when Sang-hee's
father sees that the ocean is clear of enemies, he climbs the mountain to light
his fire, but one day the father breaks his ankle and Sang-hee must ascend alone
into the darkness with a bucket of burning coals to take his father's place.
BTH-4561. $9.89-D
No Talking (6 scripts): A
round of insults between Lynsey and Dave starts a contest between the boys and
girls to see which gender can best keep quiet for two days -- at home and at
school. BTH-5212.
$9.89-D
Sahara Special
(5 scripts): Miss Pointy is like no other teacher Sahara has ever
known.
BTH-5214.
$9.89-D
Snowflake Bentley (5 scripts): A biography.
Wilson Bentley
loved snow and when he was finally able to see snowflakes under a microscope, he
was determined to find a way to photograph them so he could share their beauty
with everyone.
BTH-5215. $9.89-D
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (5 scripts): Clara is a slave and
seamstress on a plantation who knows that the Underground Railroad can lead her
to freedom. But she needs to be able to find it. As she gathers bits of
information from the other slaves, she fashions a quilt with a secret map to
lead the way. BTH-4562. $9.89-D
Frindle (5 scripts): Fifth grader Nick Allen gets into a struggle of
wills with his dictionary-loving teacher over his attempt to coin a new word:
frindle. This script covers chapters 7 and 8 of the book, when the battle
between Nick and Mrs. Granger is publicly launched. BTH-4563. $9.89-D
Love, Ruby Lavender (6 scripts): Nine-year-old Ruby's
grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer and leaves Ruby to survive on her own
in Mississippi. This script covers the first two chapters of the book, as Ruby
and her grandmother stage a chicken theft. BTH-4564. $9.89-D
Thank You Mr. Falker (5 scripts): This script is based on Patricia
Polacco's autobiographical story about the teacher who recognized that her
inability to read after several years of school was due to dyslexia, and he
helped and encouraged her to overcome her reading disability. BTH-4565. $9.89-D
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