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Recommended Reading

Tells the story of the well-known playwright, William Shakespeare, and of the famous Globe Theatre in which many of his works were performed.
Lexile Level: 850

A dramatization of James’ adventures as he escapes from his fearful aunts by rolling away inside a giant peach also includes suggestions for staging, easy-to-make costumes and scenery, and lighting procedures.

Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
Lexile Level: 810
Guided Reading Level: Y

A text of the television play, intended for reading, of Anne Sullivan Macy’s attempts to teach her pupil, Helen Keller, to communicate.
Lexile Level: NP
Guided Reading Level: X

A two-act play based on the diary of a Jewish girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of fifteen.

A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
Lexile Level: NP
Guided Reading Level: W

A play revealing the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association.
Guided Reading Level: NR

The colorful voices of Paul Bunyan, Annie Christmas, Pecos Bill, Slue Foot Sue and other tall tale heroes will come alive in your classroom with this lively collection of reproducible read-aloud plays.

The author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama portrays life in a small New Hampshire town during the early 1900s.
Guided Reading Level: NR