I listened to a podcast with Dr. Chase Young, in which he described is protocol for Readers Theater. I modified his protocol slightly, he works with primary students and I work with intermediate children.

I set out the scripts on Monday and students choose one. They read it all the way through and then on Tuesday, they meet with other students with the same script. This is when they choose a part. Through the remainder of the week, they practice with the script and then present on Friday. The key to this is having short scripts, so the entire fluency activity takes about 10 minutes each day.

The challenge, of course, is finding short scripts. I have plenty of really long ones, but practicing these enough to the point where all students can present is difficult. Moreover, I want to make sure they are practicing with content that is a good fit for outcomes they will repeatedly see throughout their academic careers.

This was the motivation to make and post the following scripts.

Content	Title	Number of Parts	link
Early Explorers	The Adventures of Marco Polo	6	here
Early Explorers	Prince Henry’s Voyage Around Africa	6	here
Early Explorers	Navigating the World with Latitude and Longitude	5	here
Early Explorers	Cortes Lands in Mexico	6	here
Early Explorers	Bartholomew Diaz the Brave Explorer	5	here
Early Explorers	The Discovery of Brazil by Pedro Alvares Cabral	4	here
Classifying Living Things	Classifying Living Animals	3	here
Classifying Living Things	How Plants Get What They Need	5	here
Classifying Living Things	Native Nevada Plants	6	here
Classifying Living Things	The Incredible Journey of a Seed	6	here
Classifying Living Things	The Magic of Photosynthesis	6	here
Classifying Living Things	The Six Kingdoms	5	here
Classifying Living Things	The Wonders of the Plant Kingdom	6	here
American Revolution	The Shot Heard Round the World	5	here
American Revolution	The Boston Tea Party	7	here
American Revolution	The Stamp Act	5	here
American Revolution	Shays’ Rebellion	5	here
American Revolution	The Declaration of Independence	5	here
American Revolution	The Battle of Lexington	5	here
Famous Inventors	Cyrus Field and the Transatlantic Telegraph	4	here
Famous Inventors	Eli Whitney & the Cotton Gin	5	here
Famous Inventors	Garrett Morgan- The Inventor of the Three-Light Traffic Signal	5	here
Famous Inventors	Maria Beasley and the Life Raft	5	here
Famous Inventors	Marie Van Brittan Brown- Inventor of the Home Security System	6	here
Famous Inventors	The Story of Alexander Graham Bell	5	here
Shakespeare	A Day in Athens, 1200 BC	5	here
Shakespeare	How to Read a Shakespeare Play	5	here
Shakespeare	Life in London in 1564	7	here
Shakespeare	Shakespeare’s Globe Theater	5	here
Shakespeare	The Fairy Circle	4	here
Shakespeare	The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, Shakespeare’s Company	5	here