Getting Ready to Read with Readers Theatre

Getting Ready to Read with Readers Theatre contains fifty, reproducible scripts to entice the preschool and kindergarten group into beginning to read. These patterned scripts based on nursery rhymes, poetry and other fun things to read are grouped into traditional preschool and kindergarten curricular groupings. Reading level based on the Flesch-Kincaid scale will be 0.0. Kids will learn to read by hearing and repeating and seeing the patterns. The authors will include information about props, staging and how to introduce the concept of reading together to these very young children.

Getting Ready to Read with Readers Theatre offers fifty, two-page reproducible scripts to entice the preschool and kindergarten group into beginning to read.

These patterned scripts based on nursery rhymes, poetry, and other fun things to read are grouped into traditional preschool and kindergarten curricular groupings: animals, community helpers, and holidays, among others. Kids will learn to read by hearing, repeating, and seeing the patterns. The book includes a beginning chapter about props, staging, and how to introduce the concept of reading together to these very young children.

SUZANNE I. BARCHERS Ed.D., has written fifty books, ranging from college textbooks to children's books. (See books and other readers theatre scripts at storycart.com.) Currently the Editor in Chief and Vice President of Leapfrog, she has served as a public school teacher, an affiliate faculty for the University of Colorado, Denver, an acquisitions editor for Teacher Ideas Press, and Managing Editor at Weekly Reader. She also serves on the PBS Kids Media Advisory Board and is a past member of the board of directors for the Association of Educational Publishers (EdPress).

CHARLA R. PFEFFINGER received her bachelor of science degree in elementary education and her master's degree in reading from Illinois State University, Normal, Ill. Mrs. Pfeffinger was an educator in Illinois for twenty-two years before retiring. She has been a contributing author to Learning magazine, Storycart Press, and the author of A Teen's Book of Lists, Holiday Readers Theatre and Character Counts! Promoting Character Education: Readers Theatre.