My hope is that we can produce a program that will serve as our holiday entertainment at Christmas time. The story I am hoping to use will of course be, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

“Readers Theatre” is an idea that I want to introduce as a new kind of community enjoyment to the friends and neighbors here at Glendale Place.

Readers Theatre connects oral reading, literature, and drama in a group setting. Using only voices and facial expressions, each reader interprets the emotions, beliefs, attitudes, and motives of the characters in a story. A narrator conveys the story’s setting and action and provides the commentary necessary for transition between scenes.

It’s an idea that reinforces the social nature of reading and provides an opportunity for adults to work as a team in a fun, interesting cooperative learning environment.

Furthermore, during Readers Theatre time, the reader is at center stage, totally absorbed in reading. The reader is a star!  I believe it will be energizing and exciting to even the most reluctant readers and I found a wonderful book of scripts to get us started.

My hope is that we can produce a program that will serve as our holiday entertainment at Christmas time.  The story I am hoping to use will of course be, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Raise the curtain! Let Readers Theatre begin!

Marion Lorence
Glendale Place, Resident Manager
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