ERIC Number: ED296293
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988-Mar
Pages: 5
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-0-949512-20-6
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Reading and Writing Readers' Theatre Scripts. Reading Around Series No. 1.
Swanson, Charlene C.
Intended for elementary school teachers, this short pamphlet describes the processes involved in executing a readers' theater. Much easier to implement than dramatic performances, reader's theater is seen as part theater and part oral interpretation. As outlined in the pamphlet, the procedures for implementing readers' theater in the classroom include (1) finding or writing scripts; (2) introducing and assigning parts; (3) rehearsing; (4) reassigning parts; (5) planning a performance; and (6) finally performing. The pamphlet lists the steps to help involve students in writing scripts as: selecting the story; making a photocopy to mark; labeling character and narrator parts; deleting non-essential information; reading aloud to edit; and typing. The pamphlet concludes that the major benefits of readers' theater are increased oral reading, a deeper and more meaningful understanding of the elements of story such as character and plot development, and exposure to new books. An appendix contains a scene from "Charlotte's Web." (MS)
Descriptors: Creative Dramatics, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Literature Appreciation, Oral Interpretation, Playwriting, Readers Theater, Reading Instruction, Reading Writing Relationship, Scripts
Australian Reading Association, PO Box 78, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia ($1.00 per copy plus $0.50 handling fee, Australian dollars).
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Australian Reading Association, Adelaide.
Identifiers - Location: Australia
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