Book-It Theatre visited our school on this 1/2 day for students. The PTA sponsored assembly included "The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales" and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs." I got students ready for the assembly by sharing the books with most of the classes. For instance, in grades 4 & 5 I've been working on fractured fairy tales, so this fit in very nicely. We compared the original version of 3 little pigs with other versions, looking specifically at characters, setting, problem, and solution. It paid off because the kids really enjoyed the performance.
Later the actors worked with one of the classes. In one hour: they came up with a story, divided the text to make it into a reader's theater, and had the kids perform! It gave me ideas for creating reader's theater scripts and using this in the future.
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