Wings of Fancy: Using Readers Theatre to Study Fantasy Genre

by Joan Garner

Featuring scripts for well known classical fantasy stories, as well as more current entries into the genre, Wings of Fancy addresses subgenres such Fairies and Enchanted Creatures; Fantastic Beasts and Talking Animals. Each script offers a summary of the story with background information on the author and story, plus suggested further readings. Staging and presentation directions are included, as is a glossary of new and unfamiliar terms. Unlike most other books of this type, lesson plans and project ideas are also included for each story. Grades 4-8

The Readers Theatre series presents original scripts written for the purpose of teaching a specific literary genre. Each book is composed of 24-28 scripts, keyed to published books, plays, poems or stories in that genre, encouraging students to read the originals to accomplish the correlated project. Staging and presentation directions are included. Two-leveled (lower and higher level) projects with all needed lesson plans, forms and discussion are also provided for each script.

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2006

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 1 out of 5]

Okay....so the book tries to do a good job of introducing to reader's theatre for a 4th-8th grade audience, given the 20+ different scripts pertaining to Fantasy, though the downside is...aside from a brief bit with mythology, understanding the subgenres of fantasy, and a brief VERY loosely adapted version of Midsummer, the other scripts are original, but the descriptions given to understand the fantasy genre take up more time than it does to explain what you're actually doing....soooooo….plus even though it was 2006 publication, there was no literary based fantasy included in the scripts and it felt very outdated and textbookish...