Free Holiday Playbook®!
Classic Christmas Poem
Adapted to
Reader's Theater
for the Classroom
This month Playbooks® is providing a free reader's theater version of the classic poem, "The Night Before Christmas," designed for Grades 2 - 6.
With three cheerful elves as the narrators, along with the characters of Santa Claus and Mr. and Mrs. Darling, the story allows students to each play an active role instead of simply reciting the poem as an outsider. The script holds the fluency-building strength of Reader's Theater and is even multi-leveled, like most of our stories, so students of different abilities can each read at their own levels while enjoying the story together.
The reader's theater exercise comes with a Recommended Reader Assignment Guide to help you determine and record which student should read each role based on the difficulty of the part.
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Free for Reader's Theater Holiday Fun!
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Playbooks, Inc. Presents
A Playbook® of
The Lord's Prayer
for Religious Education
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The Lord's Prayer
Content for Grades 4-12
Varied Reading Levels
Written by:
Dianna Cleveland
Illustrated by:
Liliane Grenier |
This creative reader’s theater version of The Lord’s Prayer helps students appreciate the meaning behind this profound prayer. With modern dialogue from characters interwoven amongst the 7 powerful messages that make up this prayer, this script brings a practical perspective to which students can relate.
Presenting “Our father who art in heaven...” as a prayer of connection to God, “Your kingdom come, your will be done...” as a prayer of surrender, and ending with “For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever,” as a prayer for a hopeful future, readers will discover that everything in their lives is covered by The Lord’s Prayer.
Characters bring their own personal experiences into the story as they all realize that everyone has insecurities, worries, hurts, guilt, regrets, and uncontrollables, and that we can find God’s solutions to our struggles entrenched in this prayer if we only know where and how to look.
Purchase this special Playbook® before
Christmas in a bound book set, or in Download & Print
Format with this special order form . |
Musical fun in reader's theater format for the winter holidays!
Personalize Rhymes
Take an easy rhyme or song like.... |
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Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the way.
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh! |
Have students think of something they like or are interested in. Maybe they have dogs at home. Help them come up with a rhyme about their chosen topic that fits the rhythm and rhyme of the song: |
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Jingle Bells, my dog smells
and he likes to play.
Oh, what fun it is to run
and play with him all day! |
The song can be simple and even silly! Implement this exercise in a reader's theater format by asking each student to make up their own character and to write a rhyme that matches that character that will fit the Jingle Bells tune. Then students take turns as they each sing their rhyme out loud in a role-play format. |
