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"A Readers Theatre production does not surrender performance power because it is less "realistic" than conventional theatre. Since the "real" events take place in the audience's minds, each beholder can create idealized characters, scenery, and textual perceptions... more believable than the... director or scene designer can materialize." - WILLIAM J. ADAMS
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Our current catalog of 60 Script Service packets is divided into three categories:
EARLY ELEMENTARY (19 PACKETS) The Readers Theatre experience will reinforce your teaching goals, such as reading skills, language appreciation, creativity, self-expression, and group cooperation. Step-by-step instructions in our Packets and the entertaining power of Readers Theatre will enable you to transform class learning into an eagerly sought-after game. ADVANCED ELEMENTARY and MIDDLE SCHOOL (20 PACKETS) Our Packets guide you to activity in a controlled setup that provides unlimited opportunity for creative outlet and physical expression. This method of reading instruction motivates middle grade students to learn basic communication skills combining theatre and oral interpretation. RT sparks the “ham” that is inherent in everyone. It offers a healthy release for your students as they go through profound physical, psychological, and intellectual changes. At the same time, it ensures reading improvement with better comprehension and retention, fluent and expressive oral reading, and listening. HIGH SCHOOL and ADULT (21 PACKETS) These Packets encompass a wide range of interests -- humorous and serious classic stories by popular American, English, and Continental authors, significant poems arranged for group performance, materials to study various RT styles, great literature as a bilingual experience, and the first of our planned Science Series. Some of the Packets offer interesting staging challenges to adults even though the literature was originally intended for young readers. Other scripts have mature subject matter. All have been pretested by the Institute for Readers Theatre. No previous theatre experience is required of you or your cast as you follow our step-by-step instructions. |
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Each Script Packet contains:
These materials have been pretested by the Institute for Readers Theatre for maximum effectiveness. No previous theatre experience is required of you or your students.
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