Recent Changes

Duck for President
{Duck for President.doc}
Fever, 1793
{Fever.docx}
Gifts from the Enemy
{Gifts From the Enemy Trudy Ludwig.docx}
Lewis and Clark
{Lewis and Clark.doc}

13 Original Colonies
America
Brave Girl
{Brave Girl.docx}
Cats in Krasinski Square
{Cats in Krasinski Square.doc}
{The Absolutely True Diary of a Part time indian readers theatre.docx}
US Westward Expansion
Which Side Are You On?
{Which Side Are You On.docx}
Whoever You Are
{Whoever You Are.doc}

Adapting Text for Readers’ Theater
• Choose a text with peppy dialogue, a little action, humor or drama, lively narration, and several parts.
• Make copies of the story (1 to 3 pages of the story may be enough).
• Highlight spoken parts in different colors.
• Highlight narrator parts in another color.
• Assign parts, practice, and perform.
Aaron Shepard’s Steps for Group Scripting
• Read through the story silently.
• As a group, identify the roles in the story and divide them among you.
• Go over the story together, deciding who will read what and also what to cut. On your own sheet, in pencil, cross out the cuts and underline your own speeches. [They don’t need to mark the speeches of others—but if they want to anyway, they can put a circled name, initial, or number above where each reader will start.]
• Try out your script by reading together. Go back and change it as needed.
• In fifteen or twenty minutes, each group will have a script and can read to the others!

National Council for the Social Studies: Carter G. Woodson Book Awards from 1974 to the present
National Council for the Social Studies: Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2014
National Council for the Social Studies: Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2000 to the present

Exemplary TextNational Council for the Social Studies: Carter G. Woodson Book Awards from 1974 to the present

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
{The Absolutely True Diary of a Part time indian readers theatre.docx}
US Westward Expansion
Whoever You Are
{Whoever You Are.doc}