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You and your students could use some of Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes and assign solo and group speaking parts and easily turn them into Readers Theatre.
See, for example: https://www.roalddahlfans.com/dahls-work/books/revolting-rhymes/excerpt-goldilocks-and-the-three-bears/

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Rosalind Flynn
Head of the M.A. in Theatre Education
Director, The High School Drama Institute
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-08-2019 07:59
From: Stanley Gibbs
Subject: Fairy tale Readers' Theatre

We have been invited to provide a ~20 minute readers' theatre lead-in/"warm-up act" for our local storytelling festival. Any suggestions? Kids will be in attendance, so thinking a "fractured fairy tale" might be appropriate.

Have a look at Paul Sills Story Theater, not so much for the scripts themselves, which mostly aren't the best for kids. The language is very stilted, as if they used text verbatim from Grimm's Tales.  But look at  the way the stories are scripted. Using that format, you could easily script a few of your own. The kids could even write their own tales. Give them a simple structure, exposition, problem, solution, denouement. Let them craft simple stories, then stage them using 4 tableaux. One child tells the story, the rest act them out. This can be done without dialogue, or with minimal dialogue.

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Ron Sopyla
Beacon NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-08-2019 07:59
From: Stanley Gibbs
Subject: Fairy tale Readers' Theatre

We have been invited to provide a ~20 minute readers' theatre lead-in/"warm-up act" for our local storytelling festival. Any suggestions? Kids will be in attendance, so thinking a "fractured fairy tale" might be appropriate.

Original Message------

Have a look at Paul Sills Story Theater, not so much for the scripts themselves, which mostly aren't the best for kids. The language is very stilted, as if they used text verbatim from Grimm's Tales.  But look at  the way the stories are scripted. Using that format, you could easily script a few of your own. The kids could even write their own tales. Give them a simple structure, exposition, problem, solution, denouement. Let them craft simple stories, then stage them using 4 tableaux. One child tells the story, the rest act them out. This can be done without dialogue, or with minimal dialogue.

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Ron Sopyla
Beacon NY
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