readers' theater

Presents a Reader's Theater tall tale describing the adventures of cowboy Pecos Bill and his future bride Slue-Foot Sue. Includes performing tips, a poem, a glossary, and a song.

Presents a Reader's Theater tall tale describing the life of logger Paul Bunyan and his giant blue ox, Babe. Includes performing tips, a poem, a glossary, and a song.

Presents a play complete with a narrator about Johnny Appleseed and his friends as he journeys throughout the countryside planting apple trees. Includes tips for performing on stage and an index.

Presents a Reader's Theater script that tells the tale of John Henry, a former slave who challenged a steam-powered drill to a race. Includes performance tips, a poem, a song, and a glossary.

Provides the script for a play about Davy Crockett including a list of characters and tips for performing the drama. Contains a poem written by Davy Crockett, the words to the song "Home on the Range," color illustrations, and a glossary.

Offers a dramatic presentation about the life of Annie Oakley from her early childhood years up through her success as America's first female superstar in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Provides a list of characters, a narrated script, a glossary, a poem, and a traditional hunting song.

Contains fourteen short read-aloud plays designed to build fluency in third and fourth graders through repeated reading; and includes a mini-lesson, teaching ideas, a rubric, and a checklist for student self-assessment.

A dramatization for six readers of the story of a gingerbread man who escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a series of nursery rhyme characters who hope to eat him until meeting up with a clever fox.

An adaptation of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night, " written in rhyming couplets especially for young readers and performers. Includes illustrations and comments by children, as well as suggestions for activities based upon the story.

Presents an adapted version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream, " written in rhyming couplets especially for young readers and performers. Includes illustrations and comments by children as well as suggestions for activities based upon the story.