Social Studies Readers Theatre for Children: Scripts and Script Development

Fourteen reproducible tall tale scripts bring alive characters such as Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Mike Fink, and Stormalong. Another section uses eight books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and presents 60 suggested scripts for students to write.

This resource provides 14 reproducible tall tale scripts about such characters as Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Mike Fink, and Stormalong, and a section that uses 8 books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and 60 suggested scripts for students to write. The latter are based on passages from books about Colonial America and the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and twentieth-century America. All books used for scripts have been selected for their literary excellence and reader appeal. Grades 4-6.