Books : Folktales on Stage: Children's Plays for Readers Theater, with 16 Reader's Theatre Play Scripts from World Folk and Fairy Tales and Legends, Including Asian, African, Middle Eastern, & Native American
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 372
EAN num: 9780938497202
ISBN number: 0938497200
Label: Shepard Publications
Manufacturer: Shepard Publications
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 180
Printing Date: September 01, 2003
Publishing house: Shepard Publications
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 168230
Studio: Shepard Publications
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Folktales on Stage is a collection of reader's theater scripts for young readers, adapted by award-winning children's author Aaron Shepard from his own folktale retellings. A wide variety of countries and cultures is represented, including Native America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Southeast Asia, and China. The scripts may be freely copied, shared, and performed for educational, noncommercial purposes. While aiming mostly at ages 8 to 15, the collection features a full range of reading levels.
The scripts in this collection are 'The Adventures of Mouse Deer' (Indonesia, Malaysia), 'The Calabash Kids' (Tanzania), 'The Hidden One' (Native America), 'The Boy Who Wanted the Willies' (Europe), 'The Princess Mouse' (Finland), 'The Legend of Slappy Hooper' (U.S.), 'The Gifts of Wali Dad' (India, Pakistan), 'The Baker's Dozen' (U.S.), 'Master Maid' (Norway), 'The Magic Brocade' (China), 'Forty Fortunes' (Iran), 'Master Man' (Nigeria), 'Savitri' (India), 'The Enchanted Storks' (Iraq), 'The Crystal Heart' (Vietnam), and 'The Sea King's Daughter' (Russia).
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Do you want an engaging activity to use with elementary students that fosters reading, performing and listening skills? Aaron Shephard's book is a wonderful resource for K-8 teachers to use in the classroom. This book has a variety of texts adapted for Reader's Theater from all parts of the world. It has been a great addition to our reading lessons!
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As a teacher of the gifted I find reader's theatre a creative avenue for teaching literacy and creative dramatics. Aaron Shepard does a great job providing interesting, well organized scripts with a rich selection of myths, folktales, and legends. I greatly appreciate this valuable resource!
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The grade and school where I teach stresses folktales, legends and myths. I also wanted to try to get this in a "Reader's Theater" format. This book does just that! Bravo!
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As a teacher of children with learning disabilities, I rarely find an activity that relates to the standards, a child's IEP, and is one that students rave about. This is entertaining as well as educational.
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I love all of Aaron's books. As a future teacher who believes today's students don't know enough of the world's folktales, I know I will be using this book in my future classroom. I especially like the story of "The Sea King's Daughter." It is a wonderful story and Aaron Shepherd has done a wonderful job of adapting it and the other stories in this collection for readers' theater. I can't wait to see what he will do next.
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