Readers' Theater productions offer teachers the flexibility of casting more than one reader for each role as a way to support emerging readers. The 15 Grade 1 Readers' Theater scripts also include these features that provide additional support for emerging readers: Simple rhyming text helps increase predictability of the text in the script for "Too Much Noise!", a traditional Jewish folktale.
Scripts based on familiar folktales such as "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," "The Little Red Hen," and "The Three Little Pigs" increase students' comfort with read-aloud material.
A patterned story structure and repeating choral refrain help support beginning readers in "Out in the Woods."
Grade Level 1, Size 8.5" X 11" (144 Pages)
The 15 Grade 1 Readers' Theater scripts are as follows:
"Why Bear Has a Stumpy Tail"-a pour quoi tale
"Math at Farmers' Market"-a contemporary tale with math connections
"Stagecoach Mary"-based on a real-life African American legend
"All Through the Year"-an imaginative look at the four seasons
"Too Much Noise!"-a rhyming version of a traditional Jewish folktale
"The Shark King's Son"-based on a Hawaiian legend
"Out in the Woods"-a contemporary tale with a choral refrain
"Big Mose"-based on a legendary firefighter from 19th-century New York
"The Three Billy Goats Gruff"-based on the "classic" folktale
"The Little Red Hen"-based on the "classic" folktale
"Shapes in the City"-geometry comes to life in this fanciful script
"Taxi the Turtle"-a script to spark discussion about friendship and values
"The North Wind and the Sun"-a fable about the power of gentleness
"Elephants in the Wild"-a script about real-life scientist Joyce Poole
"The Three Little Pigs"-based on the "classic" folktale