Character Counts!: Promoting Character Education Through Readers Theatre, Grades 2-5 - Paperback

by Charla R. Pfeffinger (Author)

This collection provides teachers and librarians with Readers Theatre scripts to promote and reinforce character education. Each original script presents a wide variety of dilemmas and situations, often drawn from true events, and includes suggestions for presentation and props. Student interpretation enables the audience to fully understand the content of the script through the use of characterization, setting, and movement by the readers. Readers Theatre scripts are grouped by grade level and age-appropriate theme. Themes include important topics such as respect, cheating, compassion, conflict resolution, survival, sportsmanship, honesty, and leadership. Grades 2-5.

Author Biography

Charla R. Pfeffinger has been an educator in Illinois for 22 years. She has been a contributing author to Learning magazine, and the author of A Teen's Book of Lists and Holiday Readers Theatre.