If you’re looking for an easy-to-put-together theater production that showcases your children’s reading talents, you might want to try Reader’s Theater. Reader’s Theater is a dramatic presentation of piece of literature using handheld scripts. It is typically performed by a group of two or more actors.
Reader’s Theater can be used for a variety of productions including homeschool group teas, concerts, recitals, plays, charity dinners, recitations, and presentation nights. It’s also good for religious education classes, dinners, camps, retreats, and plays.
Reader’s Theater has many educational benefits. It helps children to develop reading, listening, and speaking skills. It encourages them to work together. Reader’s Theater can also help children learn to read aloud with expression.
Below is a set of FREE Reader’s Theater scripts created from classical and Christian poems. Feel free to use them in your homeschool, co-op, or church, or with any other private organization.
Click here to get the free Reader’s Theater: Poetry Sampler
If you like these scripts and find that you need more, you may want to check out our other Reader’s Theater books. Click on the titles or images of each book to learn more about them.
Reader’s Theater: Classic Poetry is a collection of 47 scripts created from classic poetry. Some of the works that you’ll find in this set include “Deeds of Kindness,” “The Boy and the Wolf,” “Try Again,” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” There are also poems by such well-known authors as Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Louisa May Alcott, and William Shakespeare.
Reader’s Theater: Christian Poetry is a collection of 44 scripts created from Christian poetry. Some of the titles in this faith-based book include “God is Good,” “On Prayer,” “Robinson Crusoe’s Hymn,” “What Christ Said,” and “Shepherd Boy’s Song.” You’ll also find poems by authors like William Blake, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, Louisa May Alcott, and G.K. Chesterton.
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