New Readers' Theater Resources

Readers' Theater helps build oral fluency and strengthens reading and language arts skills for students. It also promotes teamwork and helps develop student confidence. There are six books in the series: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade6+.

New YA Books

The Perfect Hamburger and Other Delicious Stories - Alexander McCall Smith
In three separate stories, children help adults solve problems related to food, first by saving a restaurant from being shut down, second by untangling a mess in a spaghetti factory, and finally by selling donuts to raise funds for a stolen car.

Scenes Keep Happening - Mary Krell-Oishi
Presents a collection of five- and ten-minute one-act scenes for high school theater students.

Profiles in Sports Courage - Ken Rappoport
Collection of 12 profiles of athletes who have faced significant challenges in their personal and professional lives that they have overcome through their own courage.

Night of the Howling Dogs - Graham Salisbury
In 1975, eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders, and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami.

Unexplained - Judy Allen
Addresses such topics as ghosts, psychic phenomena, superstitions, mysterious natural phenomena, alleged monsters, disappearances, secrets and mysteries of ancient history, and possible extraterrestrials. A combination of absorbing fact-filled text and stunning visuals in an investigation of mysteries that continue to baffle, tantalize, and spark endless debate.

New Professional Resources

Lessons for Extending Place Value - Maryann Wickett

Acting Out: Reader's Theatre Across the Curriculum - Chris Gustafson