Our First Reader's Theaters of the 2015 School Year...

Our first Reader's Theaters have been a huge success. We have performed "My Colorful Shoes" and "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive" based on stories about Pete the Cat and The Pigeon. The addition of our class microphone really took our performances to a whole new level this week. Once again Theater Thursday has become a class favorite. It is also a teacher favorite because Mrs. Mecum and I love, love, love these performances...especially the surprise break dancing and character voices!  

 

Teachers - Check out my Reader's Theater Units in my TpT store. We practice reading the scripts together on the Smartboard, then with a reading buddy and again at home with our families. These Reader's Theater are a great way to practice reading and retelling stories. Your students will fall in love with Reader's Theater. 

There Was An Old Lady Reader's Theater

Check out my latest 
Kindergarten Reader's Theater...

based on these Old Lady books...

My class performs a Reader's Theater every Thursday. We call it Theater Thursday. We read over each reader's theater together on the Smartboard and then is small groups or with partners before each performance. Sometimes we use the scripts during the performances and sometimes the actors have memorized their parts or rely on retelling the story. Most of my reader's theaters are predictable text that retell a story that we have read. After each performance the scripts goes home. Some students make their family act out the reader's theater and some do a one man show, including various voices, during their nightly reading. 

There Was An Old Lady is a new Reader's Theater, but here are some pictures of our previous performances...

Some character cards are worn as necklaces.

Sometimes I put the character cards on the front of chairs. 
This is a great option if they need to use the script for support. 

Sometimes I put clips on the character cards. I found the clips on Amazon along with a hole punch that punches the perfect hole. 

Sometimes we get out our IKEA theater. 

Sometimes students make their own Reader's Theaters during free choice. This is Max performing his Ninja Turtles 

Reader's Theater. 

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Kindergarten Reader's Theater Bundle...

go away big green monster reader's theater

Check out our Go Away Big Green Monster Reader's Theater...

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theater thursday

Today we performed "Everyone Loves Books"

based on the story