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Students will have oodles of fun building essential reading skills with ribtickling versions of beloved fairy tales turned into read-aloud plays.
Lexile Level: Grades 2-4

A selection from over fifty sources including published and unpublished plays, blockbuster movie hits, independent films, foreign films, teleplays, poetry, and diaries.
Lexile Level: Ages 8-11

A delightful collection of short, simple plays on themes kids adore — pets, dinosaurs, space, losing a tooth, making new friends, going to school, and many more. These lively plays include adorable illustrations as well as rhymes, repetition, and predictable language to bolster reading and oral language skills.

Using her signature comic strip style, the author presents seven favorite plays by William Shakespeare, distilled and adapted for little ones yet capturing the flavor of Shakespeare’s English and the lively environment of the Globe Theater.
Lexile Level: 960
Guided Reading Level: NR

What happens when Cinderella wears shoes that she’s made from recycled material to the ball? Tap into students’ sense of humor with 5 lively plays that take the plots, characters, and settings of traditional fairy tales and turn them on their heads.
Lexile Level: Grades 2-5

You may use an Anthology or play from your Basal Reader for this genre. Also check the websites below for story scripts (Readers Theater).