Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre Scripts: Math

This cook contains 19 short reproducible readers theatre scripts on Math topics that students (elementary through high school) study. This unique style of readers theatre draws its material from curriculum content.

Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre (CBRT) scripts are specifically written so that a whole class can participate. All of the scripts are short in length (1-2 pages) and contain many lines written for group unison speaking. Each script's stage directions encourage students to create sound effects and gestures that add imaginative and kinesthetic components to its delivery.

Here are the topics of this volume's Math scripts:

- Coin Value and Identification

- Telling Time

- Fractions and Decimals

- Multiplication

- Geometry Terms

- Angles

- Solid Shapes

- Triangles

- Equilateral, Isosceles, and Scalene Triangles

- Polygons

- Quadrilaterals

- Math Word Problems

- Greatest Common Factor

- Integers

- The Order of Operations

- Bases and Exponents

- Range, Median, and Mode

Students overwhelmingly love to take parts in script readings. Even if the script is about something like integers (and especially if it contains humor and invites their creative input), students participate willingly. Teachers whose students rehearse and perform scripts about curriculum topics like fractions, angles, polygons, bases, and exponents report great educational results.

In an educational climate in which it is increasingly difficult to make time for experiences like the class play, Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre is a manageable option. Whole classes can work together on speaking skills and dramatic deliveries to rehearse and perform a short script that also just happens to reinforce Math facts and ideas that they are supposed to know.