Fill your library or classroom with giggles and laughter with these uproarious readers theatre scripts from popular author Tony Fredericks. The more than two dozen reproducible scripts are based on fractured fairy tales and twisted legends. Guaranteed to re-energize the language arts and writing curricula.

ANTHONY D. FREDERICKS is Professor of Education, York College, York, Pennsylvania, and the author of more than 50 teacher resource books as well as 20 award-winning children's books.

Acknowledgments

ix

Preface

xi

Part I The Part That Comes Near the Beginning of the Book

O.K., This Is the Really Serious Stuff in the Book That You Should Read Before You Read All the Incredibly Humorous Stuff in the Rest of the Book

xvii

The Magic of Storytelling

xvii

What Is Readers Theatre?

xviii

Students As Storytellers

xviii

What Is the Value of Readers Theatre?

xix

Presentation Suggestions

xxi

Post-Presentation

xxiv

References

xxv

Part II A Whole Bunch of Wild and Wacky Scripts That Will Make Your Students Think You Are the Coolest Teacher Who Ever Lived!

The Fire-Breathing Dragon Finally Uses Mouthwash (and, Boy, What a Difference!)

3

(5)

Snow White and the Seven Vertically Challenged Men Who Live in the Forest

8

(5)

The Underappreciated Fairy Godmother (Known As Roxanne to Her Friends) Get Really Ticked Off

13

(4)

Teachers Live in the School Basement and Never Come Out at Night

17

(4)

King Arthur and the Knights of the Polygon Table

21

(5)

Hansel and Gretel Are Beautiful and Smart but Have Really Weird Names

26

(4)

A Story About Hercules, Paul Bunyan, and the Very Tall Individual Who Lives at the Top of a Beanstalk

30

(5)

Actually, the Toilet Overflowed and Thirty-Four Lizards Danced Through My Room

35

(4)

Several Twisted Tongue Twisters by Six Twisted Twister Tellers

39

(4)

Beauty and This Incredibly Ugly Guy

43

(4)

Pecos Bill (A Really True Story Told by Four Honest Texans)

47

(7)

Grandmothers Are Ladies with No Children of Their Own, Funny Shoes, and Lots of Cats

54

(4)

Goldilocks and the Three Hamsters

58

(4)

Merry Maid Meredith and the Kissing Lesson down at the Pond

62

(6)

What Brain's Father Does

68

(5)

Jack and the Tall Legume (The Story They Never Told You)

73

(4)

William Tell and the Story with the Babbling Narrator

77

(5)

Johnny Kumquatseed Walks Along the Road of Life and Gets a Job and (Thankfully) a New Name

82

(5)

The Last Story in This Section of the Book

87

(6)

Part III Oh Boy, Oh Boy, a Bunch of Stories About Salamanders

The Ugly Salamander (or the Bad-Looking Creature Gets Involved with a Very Large Family)

93

(5)

The Salamander Prince

98

(4)

The Big Bad Salamander and the Three Little Pigs

102

(5)

A Story About a Really Dumb Prince Who Doesn't Know the Difference Between Salamanders and Frogs

107

(4)

The Salamander and the Crocodile

111

(6)

Part IV The Part of the Book That Is Pretty Close to the End of the Book

``Once Upon a Time''

117

(2)

The Big Bad Pig and the Three Little Wolves

119

(2)

Possible Conclusions

120

(1)

Rip Van Winkle Sleeps and Snores and Sleeps and Snores and Eventually Becomes the Class's Science Experiment

121

(3)

Possible Conclusions

123

(1)

The Real Reason Robin Hood Lives in the Forest

124

(3)

Possible Conclusions

126

(1)

A True Story (No, Really)

127

(4)

Possible Conclusions

130

(1)

The Unbelievable Incident in Mothergoosetown

131

(2)

Possible Conclusions

132

(1)

King Midas: In the Beginning

133

(3)

Possible Conclusions

135

(1)

Jack and Jill Don't Like the Stupid Author Who Wrote Their Story

136

(7)

Possible Conclusions

137

(6)

Part V This Is the Appendix Part of the Book or the Section Where Those ``Brand X'' Authors Put Lots of Dumb Stuff so That Their Books Look a Lot Bigger Than They Really Are---but in This Book the Stuff Here Is Really Neat (Trust Me)

Appendix A: Bibliography

143

(6)

Appendix B: More Ideas

149

(4)

Appendix C: Resources

153

(4)

About the Author

157

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