Getting Ready to Read With Readers Theatre

by Barchers, Suzanne I.

• ISBN13: 9781591585015
• ISBN10: 1591585015
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-30
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
The Alphabet, Counting, Colors, and Tim	p. 1
A Was an Archer	p. 5
Great A, Little a	p. 7
Her Name Is Allie	p. 9
1, 2, 3, 4, 5	p. 13
The Ants Go Marching	p. 15
I Saw Three Ships	p. 18
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe	p. 23
Ten Green Frogs	p. 25
Three Blind Mice	p. 28
Chalk on the Walk	p. 30
Good Morning!	p. 32
Animals	p. 35
A Crow Is Black	p. 39
I Had a Little Hen	p. 41
The Little Green Frog	p. 44
Little Robin Redbreast	p. 47
One Funny Bunny	p. 49
Six Little Ducks	p. 51
Snip Snap Turtle	p. 55
A Swarm of Bees in May	p. 57
Three Young Rats	p. 59
Two Little Blackbirds	p. 61
Familiar Rhymes	p. 63
Dance with Your Daddy	p. 67
Hey Diddle Diddle	p. 70
Jack Be Nimble	p. 72
Little Boy Blue	p. 74
Little Girl, Little Girl	p. 76
Little Miss Muffet	p. 78
Mary Had a Little Lamb	p. 80
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary	p. 82
Miss Mary Mack	p. 84
Miss Polly Had a Dolly	p. 87
Rub a Dub Dub	p. 89
Three Little Kittens	p. 91
Family, Friends, Feelings, and Fun	p. 93
I Have a Little Sister	p. 95
There Are Smiles	p. 97
There Was a Family	p. 99
What Do You Do to Have Fun?	p. 101
When You've Been Sad	p. 104
Food Fun	p. 107
Eating Green Peas	p. 109
Do You Know the Muffin Man?	p. 111
Old Mother Hubbard	p. 113
Pease Porridge Hot	p. 116
Music and Movement	p. 119
As I Was Going Up the Hill	p. 121
The Bear Went over the Mountain	p. 124
Ding Dong Bell	p. 127
Down by the Station	p. 129
I Stand inside a Circle	p. 132
If All the Seas Were One Sea	p. 135
It's All Fun!	p. 137
I've Been Working on the Railroad	p. 139
The Swing	p. 142
Index	p. 145
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