Additional Reader’s Theater Resources

*Compiled by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh BLAST School Outreach

Picture Books for Reader’s Theater

• Anansi Does the Impossible retold by Verna Aardema
• Armadilly Chili by Helen Ketteman
• Big Rain Coming by Katrina Germein
• Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss
• Eric Carle’s Animals Animals
• Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles
• Grace For President by Kelly DiPucchio
• Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia
• Hey You C’Mere: A Poetry Slam by Elizabeth Swados
• It’s a Hummingbird’s Life by Irene Kelley
• Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
• Kallaloo: A Caribbean Tale by David and Phillis Gershator
• Meet Danitra Brown by Nikki Grimes
• One Green Apple by Eve Bunting
• Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini
• Stone Soup
• Stone Soup retold by Heather Forest
• The Boy Who Painted Dragons by Demi
• The Perfect Pet by Margie Palatini
• The Web Files by Margie Palatini
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by John Scieszka
• The Very Ugly Bug by Liz Pichon
• Wombat Goes Walkabout by Michael Morpurgo
• Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka

Resource Books:

• Readers’ Theater (Grade 3) – Evan-Moor
• Readers Theater for Building Fluency by Jo Worthy
• Acting Out: Six One-Act Plays with Avi, Susan Cooper, Sharon Creech, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Patterson, Richard Peck
• Readers On Stage by Aaron Shepard;
• How and Why Stories for Reader’s Theater by Judy Wolfman
• Presenting Reader’s Theater: Plays and Poems to Read Aloud by Caroline Feller Bauer
• Read! Perform! Learn! 10 Reader’s Theater Programs for Literacy Enhancement by Toni Buzzeo
• Cinderella Outgrows the Glass Slipper and Other Zany Fractured Fairy Tale Plays
• Frantic Frogs and Other Frankly Fractured Folktales for Readers Theater
• Silly Salamanders and Other Slightly Stupid Stuff for Readers Theater

Websites:

• Timeless Teacher Stuff

http://www.timelessteacherstuff.com/

• Reader’s Theater Scripts and Plays

http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm

• Printable Worksheets: Reader’s Theater Scripts and Plays

http://www.havefunteaching.com/printableworksheetsreadingreaderstheater.html

• Margie Palatini

 http://www.margiepalatini.com/readerstheater.html

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