Did you ever wonder how to teach children kindness? We can use a whole lot of words, but they really need to experience it for themselves, don't they?
- *Reader's theater helps build reading fluency.
- *Reader's theater helps children develop social skills.
- *Reader's theater develops reading comprehension skills.
- *Reader's theater helps children develop empathy.
- *Reader's theater helps children understand new and different situations.
- *Reader's theater helps children experience things they might not experience otherwise.
Here's a freebie that celebrates kindness through reader's theater! It has a fun little twist to the story: the children read about a conflict, then ask the audience to help them come up with a solution to end the play!
Starring Kindness Freebie: Reader's Theater with a Twist: has a 4 page script that describes a conflict about a blue crayon between some children. There are 4 characters involved. After 4 pages of dialog, the children are to discuss how to solve the problem and create an ending that uses kindness!
Trust me, the children love this!
We can all use a little kindness in our lives, can't we?
How do you teach kindness?
In case you're looking for more reader's theater, here's a life cycle themed script: What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?