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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Reader's Theatre/Radio Play Script
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Synopsis:Charlie Bucket and Grandpa Joe join a small group of contest winners who get to tour the magical and mysterious factory of eccentric candy maker Willy Wonka. Aided by his diminutive Oompa Loompa workers, Wonka has a hidden motivation for the tour, one that he will reveal only after the children in the group (Veruca, Augustus, Violet, Mike and Charlie) show their true personalities.Included in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Unit:251 pages and 30 c
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Fantastic Mr. Fox: Reader's Theatre/Radio Script
Fantastic Mr. Fox Synopsis:Mr. Fox lives with his wife and four little foxes. In order to feed his family, he steals food from farmers named Boggis, Bunce, and Bean every night. Tired of being constantly outwitted by Mr. Fox, the farmers attempt to capture and kill him. The foxes escape in time by burrowing deep into the ground. The farmers decide to wait outside the hole for the foxes to emerge. Unable to leave the hole and steal food, Mr. Fox and his family begin to starve. Mr. Fox devises a p
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Lord of the Flies Reader's Theatre Script/Story -William Golding -Quiz
Jack MerridewWhere does the beast live? Percival sagged in Jack's grip. PiggyThat's a clever beast, if it can hide on this island. Jack's been everywhere. Where could a beast live? Jack MerridewBeast my foot! Percival muttered something and the assembly laughed again. Ralph leaned forward. RalphWhat does he say? Jack listened to Percival's answer and then let go of him. Percival, released, surrounded by the comfortable presence of humans, fell in the long grass and went to sleep. Jack cleared
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Mommy, Do You Hear That? Scary Reader's Theatre/Radio Play -Creative Writing
Mommy, Do You Hear That? Summary:One evening, Ellen and her daughter Alice are returning home from their visit to Aunt Sally and Uncle Albert's house. On the way home, Alice hears sounds all around her in the dark. Ellen calms young Alice's mind by telling her their is a logical explanation for all the sounds she is hearing at that time of the night. The one sound that Ellen does not respond to is the sound of heavy footsteps. Alice continually asks who or what could be making them, while Ellen
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Shrek: Reader's Theatre Story -Funny Moral Fairy Tale
Summary: Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying fairy tale characters. They were all banished from their kingdom by the evil Lord Farquaad. Determined to save their home -- not to mention his swamp-- Shrek makes a deal with Farquaad and sets out to rescue Princess Fiona to be Farquaad's bride. Rescuing the Princess may be small compared to her deep, dark secret. Along the way, Shrek will enco
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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The Greatest Gift Reader's Theater Script -Questions -Philip Van Doren Stern
George PrattGive me just one good reason why I should be alive. I’m sick of everything! I’m stuck here in this mud hole for life, doing the same full work day after day. Other people are leading exciting lives, but I…well, I’m just a small-town bank clerk. I never did anything really useful or interesting, and it looks as if I never will. I might just as well be dead. Sometimes I wish I were. In fact, I wish I had never been born!The StrangerWhy, that’s wonderful! You have solved everything. You
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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1984 Reader's Theatre Script Unit -George Orwell -Dystopia -Questions & Quiz
Winston SmithWhat are you in for? Tom ParsonsThoughtcrime! Winston SmithAre you guilty? Tom ParsonsOf course I'm guilty! You don't think the Party would arrest an innocent man, do you? Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man. It's insidious. It can get hold of you without your even knowing it. Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep! Yes, that's a fact. There I was, working away, trying to do my bit—never knew I had any bad stuff in my mind at all. And then I started talking in my sleep
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Hitch-Hiker: Spooky Reader's Theatre Story -Halloween -Ghost
The Hitch-Hiker Summary:Doctor Edward Stevens has just finished visiting a patient from a house call on a dark and rainy night. As he is driving home, he sees a girl waiting at a bus shelter in the middle of the night. He picks her up and she introduces herself as Layla. She was attending a party, and her friends dropped her off at the bus shelter. She requests to be taken to her parents home since they are worried about her. As Doctor Stevens speaks to Layla, he suddenly notices something odd a
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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The Count of Monte Cristo Radio Play Script/Reader's Theatre -Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo Summary:Edmond Dantès has it all: a beautiful fiancé and a caring father, but that is all taken away from him when Edmond is wrongfully imprisoned on the island of Chateau d'If. While in prison, Edmond plots his revenge against those who betrayed him. With help from another prisoner named Abbé Faria, he escapes the island and proceeds to transform himself into the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo as part of his plan to exact revenge and gain his life back.Included in this
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Sorry, Wrong Number -Reader's Theater Script -Suspense -Lucille Fletcher
Sergeant MartinYou know, telephones are funny things. Now, look, why don’t you look at it this way: Supposing you hadn’t broken in on that telephone call. Supposing you got your husband the way you always do. You wouldn’t be so upset, would you? Agnes StevensonI...well I suppose not. But it sounded so inhuman, so cold blooded… Sergeant MartinWell, a lot of murders are plotted in this city everyday, ma’am. We manage to prevent almost all of them, but a clue of this kind is so vague, it isn’t mu
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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It's Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown! Reader's Theatre Script -Questions & Rubric
SallyHi, Linus. Maybe you can talk to my brother. I think Thanksgiving is making him crazy. LinusI will see what I can do. Charlie BrownLinus, I think I am losing control of the whole world! Peppermint Patty has invited herself, Marcie, and Franklin over for Thanksgiving dinner, and I’m not even going to be here! LinusWhy don’t you just call Patty back and tell that to her?Charlie BrownYou can’t explain anything to Peppermint Patty because you never get a chance to say anything. I’m doomed! Thre
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
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Winnie-the-Pooh Reader's Theatre Script Unit -A.A. Milne
Read as Winnie-the-Pooh and all of his friends: Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Rabbit, Kanga, Piglet, Roo and Owl as they go on adventures in the Hundred Acres Woods.Adventures such as:*Pooh Bear uses a balloon to obtain honey from a bee hive.*Pooh Bear visits Rabbit and becomes stuck in his home.*Piglet and Pooh Bear go hunting for a Woozle.*Eeyore loses his tail and Pooh Bear finds him another one.*Piglet meets a Heffalump.*Everyone forgets Eeyore's birthday and Pooh Bear does his best to make his
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3rd - 5th, Adult Education
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Alice in Wonderland Radio Play/Reader's Theater Script -Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland Summary:A young girl named Alice falls asleep in a meadow while her sister reads a book. Alice dreams that she sees a White Rabbit running by her with a pocket watch, so she follows the White Rabbit down a burrow. She has many bizarre adventures with illogical and very strange creatures. She encounters the Dormouse, Caterpillar, the Duchess, The Cheshire Cat, The March Hare and the Mad Hatter. She plays a game of croquet with a flamingo for a croquet mallet and hedgehogs for
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Home Alone: Reader's Theatre/Radio Play -Christmas
Summary:When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother, Kate McCallister, makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true, but his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men named Harry and Marv, who call themselves the Wet Bandits, plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue: Reader's Theatre/Radio Play -Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue Summary:An amateur detective named C. Auguste Dupin and his friend, Poe, investigate the murder of two women on the fourth floor of the Rue Morgue. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken by the suspect. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human. The Gendarmerie are baffled as to who could have committed the murders, leaving Dupin to use his uncanny ingenuity to solve the case.I have read th
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Wind in the Willows Reader's Theatre Script with Questions
BadgerToad, I want you to solemnly repeat, before your friends here, what you fully admitted to me in the smoking-room just now. First, you are sorry for what you have done, and you see the folly of it all? There was a long, long pause. Toad looked desperately this way and that, while the other animals waited in grave silence. At last he spoke. ToadNo! I am not sorry, and it was not a folly at all! It was simply glorious! BadgerThen you do not promise, to never touch a motor-car again? ToadCerta
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5th - 10th, Adult Education
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The Shooting of Dan McGrew Reader's Theatre Script -Questions & Rubric
Lou MaxwellIt's all a lie, of course, but I… don't understand. The cynical exultation in Dan's smile grew. At last, he was bold enough to bring the affair to a crisis. Dan McGrewDo you dare to ride with me to the town, to test the thing for yourself?Lou MaxwellDo I “dare?” What do you mean? Dan McGrewI mean just that. You've begun already to be afraid of the truth. Do you dare to ride to town with me, and so test the truth with your own eyes? The taunt provoked her to a new anger, to a new stren
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: The Shooting of Dan McGrew Reader's Theatre Script & Slide-Show Unit
The Lottery: Reader's Theatre/Radio Play -Suspense -Shirley Jackson
The Lottery Summary:On a warm summer day, villagers gather in a town square to participate in a lottery. The village is small with about 300 residents, and they are in an excited but anxious mood. We learn that this is an annual event and that some surrounding towns are thinking about abandoning the lottery. Mrs. Hutchinson makes an undramatic entrance and chats briefly with Mrs. Delacroix, her friend.The night before Mr. Summers, a town leader who officiates the lottery, had made paper slips li
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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A Christmas Carol Reader's Theater Script with Questions -Charles Dickens
Ebenezer ScroogeSpirit! Something informs me that our parting moment is at hand. Tiny Tim has…died. But please…tell me…who was the man we saw lying in that bed? A thick fog begins to surround Scrooge and the spirit, and they are transported to a cemetery. It is a worthy place, indeed to learn the wretched dead man’s name. The spirit points to a tombstone in the distance. Scrooge squints at it and then looks back at the spirit. Ebenezer ScroogeBefore I draw nearer to the gravestone at which you p
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Jurassic Park Reader's Theatre/Radio Play Script -Park Project
65 Million Years in the Making.Welcome to Jurassic Park!In the beginning, Isla Nublar lay silent, untouched...uninhabited...but a startling scientific experiment and a wealthy man's fantasy have turned the small island into a place of terrible wonder. It is called Jurassic Park. Where ancient jungles thrive and primitive life is renewed. Dinosaurs from 65 million years ago walk the earth once again. Dr. Ian Malcolm, chaos theorist, says: "scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could br
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Frankenstein 1931 Reader's Theatre Script/Story -With Rubric & Questions
Doctor Frankenstein flung open the door and stepped into the cellar, then stopped immediately, stunned by the sight that greeted him. Across the cellar hung the lifeless form of Fritz as he dangled from a chain. His limp body was swinging back and forth. Doctor Henry FrankensteinFritz! Doctor Frankenstein nearly fainted from shock. Doctor Henry FrankensteinThe monster has killed Fritz! A low, growling sound cut through the dark cellar. The monster stepped from the the shadows, free of its chain
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5th - 10th, Adult Education
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Dracula Reader's Theatre Script -37 pages -Express Horror Read
DraculaHarker! You are cut! Jonathan HarkerCount! What are you doing with my mirror? Dracula takes Harker’s mirror, and throws it out the open window. The mirror shatters when it hits the ground. DraculaThe blood! The blood… Wipe the blood from your face, Mister Harker, and take care when you cut yourself. It is more dangerous than you think to walk around with a bloody wound in this country.Included in the Dracula Reader's Theatre Unit:37 page script5 Major Characters + the narrator11 Supportin
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6th - 11th, Adult Education
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Room for the Night: Spooky Mysterious Reader's Theatre Story
Room for the Night Summary:Joan and Rupert are lost on a country road one night. They drive past a big old house and knock on the door to see if anyone inside knows how to get back to the city. Elderly Mrs. Jenkins opens the door and offers them tea and a room to stay in for the night. Joan and Rupert offer to give her money for her hospitality but Mrs. Jenkins refuses. The next morning, Joan places an envelope with money on the coffee table and they exit. While having breakfast at a diner, Rupe
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Stories of the Wendigo Reader's Theatre Scripts x5 -Cree Ojibwa Horror -Glossary
When a wendigo attacks, it shows no mercy. This monster will kill and devour its own family to try and satisfy its appetite for human flesh. The wendigo is inhuman because of the powerful spirit of cannibalism and destruction residing in its body. VillagerThe cries of the wendigo draw near. Something must be done to prevent it. The villagers traveled to the homes of the medicine men. Medicine ManWhat troubles you, my people? VillagerCan you not hear the growling of the wendigo? You must stop it
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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