From the deliciously ghostly and eerie to the startling to the humorous, these scripts are guaranteed to capture your students' attention. Drawn from folktales, myths, ghost stories, and modern urban legends, they will entertain while enhancing oral reading skills. For grades two through five, the scripts have been evaluated using the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale.

Features:

• Introduction about using Readers Theatre
• 30 reproducible scripts
• Suggestions for presentation and props
• Cuing numbers

Reviews:
"Children will have a ball with these scripts." Library Talk

"This collection of dramatic skits is perfect for supplementing any elementary study of folklore or as a fun October production....An easy-to-use resource for incorporating dramatic interpretation into the study of world literature." Infotech: The Advisory List

"The author has made the process of transferring from page to stage as easy as possible, with suggestions for getting started, presentation techniques, props or simple costumes, involving the audience and using the scripts as a springboard for extension activities. A good, easy-to-use "back-pocket" resource for teachers of elementary age students--for Halloween or anytime when a few shivers would liven things up." The Story Bag Newsletter

"...filled with delightful scripts that are guaranteed to capture the attention of students and encourage the improvement of reading skills." Library Lane.