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How Does Theatre Effect Our Lives?
Readers Theatre

Readers Theater is reading-aloud to communicate a story through oral interpretation rather than acting.  Parts are divided among the students and then they read from a script or directly from the book. No memorization, costumes, blocking, or special lighting is needed unless you or your students want to add them. That’s totally up to you.

The object of this activity as well as the following one is to create, rehearse and ultimately perform a show. Below I have linked sites with pre-written scripts for students. It is also possible to give the students a prompt or a story with the ending cut out and allow them to write their own ending.


The websites below give descriptions of reader's theatre and have activities and scripts.
The websites below are reader's theatre scripts

1.2. Use body and voice to improvise alternative endings to a story.
2.0 CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Creation/Invention in Theatre
2.2. Retell familiar stories, sequencing story points and identifying character, setting, and conflict.