Readers' Theater, Grade 1
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." 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. The Readers' Theater Table of Contents lists content-area connections to help you tie language arts instruction to other areas of the Grade 1 curriculum. 144 pages.
