It is especially useful for the unconfident teacher or student. It is also a lot of fun and we have used it successfully with all years at high school. We have found it easier to have students create their own scripts, but some are available in the book by the above authors which you are welcome to use. Other stimulus for readers theatre include children's storybooks and music and poetry. In the latter you can give students the cut up lines of the poem and get them to arrange them according to how they feel they should be read, this is a good small group activity.
Readers theatre is a way of sharing stories, poems or parts of plays and novels aloud with others.
Readers use scripts, suggested characterisation, and limited action and settings to make the world of the story live. The ideas is to help listeners imaginatively become involved in recreating the story themselvesk in their own minds. If you were to watch a readers theatre presentation, you would notice certain things. First, a group of readers, varying in number, read from scripts. They sit on stools, boxes, ladders or on the floor, and dress informally or in a fashion which suggests character or setting.