A magical history book brings people from US history to life! With the help of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr, Sally Ride, Cesar Chavez, and the State of Liberty, a young boy learns about their historical significance in this engaging Reader's Theater script. The Spanish-translated script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on everyone's current reading level, allowing all readers to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice performance, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story.

Join a family as they spend the day visiting various places in town. They'll visit a library, fire station, city hall, and an ice cream parlor as they learn about the importance of community. This Spanish-translated script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on everyone's current reading level, allowing all readers to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice performance, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story.

Teedie: The Boy Who Would Be President is a five-act script that allows students to perform roles at differentiated reading levels to accommodate all students. Based on the early life of Theodore Roosevelt, students will learn about Teedie's amazing life as they perform roles to increase fluency, comprehension, and social studies content literacy. With a glossary, poem, and song, this resource will help students develop their vocabulary, create a stage presence, speak with meaning, and learn how to interact cooperatively with peers.

First Fire

by Dona Herweck Rice

Published 20 August 2015
Fire has provided people with heat and energy for ages, but how was fire first discovered and harnessed? This Reader's Theater five-act script recreates the excitement and danger of harnessing fire as a source of energy. The leveled script includes roles at differentiated reading levels that accommodate all students. This classroom resource helps students interact cooperatively with peers, speak with meaning, and increase vocabulary and comprehension. It includes a glossary, poem, and a song that will engage students in learning, and helps students increase fluency, comprehension, and content literacy in sciences and social studies.

American Heroes

by Dona Herweck Rice

Published 1 May 2018
A magical history book brings people from US history to life! With the help of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr, Sally Ride, Cesar Chavez, and the State of Liberty, a young boy learns about their historical significance in this engaging Reader's Theater script. The differentiated script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on everyone's current reading level, allowing all readers to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice performance, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story.

Our Neighborhood

by Dona Herweck Rice

Published 1 May 2018
Join a family as they spend the day visiting various places in town. They'll visit a library, fire station, city hall, and an ice cream parlor as they learn about the importance of community. This differentiated script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on everyone's current reading level, allowing all readers to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice performance, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story.