READERS THEATER FRACTURED FAIRY TALE Cinderella Script Grades 5-8 - Cindy Rella

This funny Readers’ Theater fractured fairy tale script takes the traditional fairy tale genre and turns its conventions of character and plot around to bring Cinderella into the 21st century for your ELA and drama classes! It gives grades 5-8 students high interest practice in reading aloud, comprehension and writing. After completing their reading of the script they will write an additional scene, AND a ‘pitch’ to promote a fractured fairy story of their own. There’s even a quick mystery about a missing item for them to solve! The script is intended for 9 readers, but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded, depending on how many groups you wish to have.
Quick peer and self assessment forms are provided, and a reading rubric for easy marking.

PLOT

Cindy Rella is loosely based on the children’s tale, Cinderella. In this modern version, teenager Cindy lives in an unhappy home where there is far too much concentration on cleaning. In this re-telling of the classic story, however, it is the shoe obsessed Cindy (forever buying shoes from Amazon) who is the bully! Only her godfather knows about the unhappiness and envy of her sisters that causes Cindy's bad behavior. Cindy goes to the ball and meets Hans Summ, singer of the best-selling band the Charmers, yet the tale ends differently from the way your students will anticipate.

STUDENT TASKS

-- students read their assigned part
-- they solve a mini-mystery about the location of a missing item
-- they discuss and write on five comprehension and extension questions,
-- they perform a script writing task
-- they write a fractured story plot pitch
-- they complete a fun fairy tale jokes activity. Phew!

If your students enjoy this fairy tale, they will relish a fable too: READERS THEATER AESOP'S FABLE FUN SCRIPT: THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF

For ALL of my Readers' Theater scripts - largely MYSTERY scripts - take a peek at READERS' THEATER INDIVIDUAL SCRIPTS GRADES 5-8

For ALL of my Readers' Theater script BUNDLES, take a peek at READERS' THEATER SCRIPT BUNDLES
For oodles of drama fun, try Drama Games for Middle School.
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