Toys + math shark

Readers' Theater productions offer teachers the flexibility of casting more than one reader for each role as a way to support emerging readers. A patterned story structure and repeating choral refrain help support beginning readers in "Out in the Woods." The 15 Grade 1 Readers' Theater scripts are as follows: "Why Bear Has a Stumpy Tail"-a pour quoi tale, "Math at Farmers' Market"-a contemporary tale with math connections, "Stagecoach Mary"-based on a real-life African American legend, "All Through the Year"-an imaginative look at the four seasons, "Too Much Noise!"-a rhyming version of a traditional Jewish folktale, "The Shark King's Son"- based on a Hawaiian legend, "Out in the Woods"-a contemporary tale with a choral refrain, "Big Mose" - based on a legendary firefighter from 19th-century New York, "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"-based on the "classic" folktale, "The Little Red Hen"-based on the "classic" folktale, "Shapes in the City" - geometry comes to life in this fanciful script, Less