MORE Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre
Anthony D. Fredericks


Readers theatre continues to be popular with teachers and librarians endeavoring to enhance reading fluency. Humorous scripts are particularly in demand. In MORE Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre, bestselling author Tony Fredericks presents all-new scripts based on fractured fairy and folk tales.

Building on the delightful and wildly humorous stories of his Tadpole Tales and Other Totally Terrific Treats for Readers Theatre, Fredericks offers more than two dozen reproducible, satirical, and downright funny scripts that will reinvigorate and reenergize the elementary language arts curriculum. Specifically targeted at beginning readers, his sidesplitting send-ups and wacky, fractured tales are guaranteed to bring snickers, chuckles, and belly laughs into any classroom, get everyone involved in production?and motivate kids to love reading.

In this book, funny tales and rhymes are presented as readers theatre scripts, specifically written to motivate beginning readers.

Nine out of ten principals think that there should be more readers theatre in the classroom. Nine out of ten classroom teachers are delighted when their students giggle their way through language arts. Most important, nine out of ten students like to laugh. What better way could there be to turn young children into lifelong readers?