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Introduce your students to other countries and cultures through the traditional folk and fairy tales in these engaging readers theatre scripts. Valuable as supplements to multicultural units, these scripts actively involve students in the subject, and they promote oral reading and presentation skills.

Scripts built around such rhymes and songs as: The Itsy, Bitsy Spider, The Farmer in the Dell, Hush, Little Baby, If You're Happy and You Know It, and I'm a Little Teapot will encourage kids to read the scripts, all the while building reading fluency.

More Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys: Adventures with Mythical Creatures will put imaginations to work to foster creativity and build reading skills.

This book, focusing on active, engaging material, will fill a void in the literature that currently exists for these students, their teachers, and literacy coaches. Readers theatre for boys and particularly middle school boys is a publishing gap that needs to be filled.

Have you heard Don't Kiss Sleeping Beauty, She's Got Really Bad Breath or The Ugly Duckling Sues His Parents for Bad Genes? Fredericks's side-splitting send-ups and wacky folktales and fairy tales are guaranteed to bring snickers, chuckles, and belly laughs into the classroom and get everyone involved.

Greek mythology, an important part of the curriculum for middle and high school students, serves as an exciting source of creative inspiration. Students get to know heroes, such as Heracles and Athena, in addition to lesser known but equally fascinating figures, such as Chiron and Asclepius.

Tony Fredericks presents all-new scripts in this new book of fractured folk- and fairy tales for middle-grade readers theatre. The book also contains guidelines and tips for using readers theatre in the classroom to promote reading fluency and motivate young students to read!

Around The World Through Holidays: Cross Curricular Readers Theatre includes scripts for twelve plays adaptable for any of the reading or performance methods of Readers Theatre presentation.

Sample Tales: Jack and the Beanstalk (English) The Lion and the Mouse (Greek) The Old Woman and Her Pig (English) The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Scandinavian) The Tortoise and the Hare (Greek) Baba Yaga (Russian) Little Red Riding Hood (German) The Ugly Duckling (Danish).

Activities that prepare children to participate in readers theatre are accompanied by reproducible scripts of classics (e.g., Little Women, Heidi, The Secret Garden) and suggested scenes from contemporary children's literature (e.g., Tuck Everlasting, The Wish Giver, The Whipping Boy, Stone Fox, Sarah, Plain and Tall) that students may use to develop their own scripts. A great way to introduce good books and perpetuate an interest in literature.